Apple 6400 appendix Rebuild your desktop, This saves your current set of extensions

4If your computer still doesn’t restart, to turn it off press the power button (®) on the back of the computer, wait at least 10 seconds, and turn it on again.

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If you suspect that the problem is with other equipment, such as a printer or an external hard disk that’s attached to your computer, turn that equipment off for 10 seconds or longer, then turn it on again and restart the Macintosh.

Rebuild your desktop

A process known as “rebuilding the desktop” helps your Macintosh keep track of data on your startup disks. (Although the hard disk in your computer is usually the startup disk, you can start up from any other disk that has system software installed.) It’s a good idea to rebuild your desktop once a month or so.

Rebuilding your desktop can solve a number of problems. For example, when application documents are no longer represented by application-specific icons (and are instead represented by generic icons on the desktop), rebuilding the desktop fixes the problem. Afterward, appropriate icons should appear for all documents.

Some extensions may interfere with rebuilding your desktop. To prevent problems, you’ll need to turn off all extensions except Macintosh Easy Open before you rebuild your desktop. When you finish rebuilding the desktop, turn the extensions you normally use back on.

To rebuild the desktop of a startup disk, follow these steps:

Open the Extensions Manager control panel by choosing Extensions Manager from the Control Panels submenu of the Apple (K) menu.

From the Sets pop-up menu, choose Save Set.

In the Save Set dialog box, type a name for your currently selected extensions (for example, “My Extensions”) and click OK. The name of your set is added to the Sets pop-up menu.

This saves your current set of extensions.

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