Mac Problems

Oy. I hate it when this happens.

Last Friday, I got my weekly notice that Apple had some system updates for me to download. I usually look through the list, see if it's important, and if it's anything significant, I'll click download. One of the downloads was a security update, so yeah, I clicked the button.

As it was downloading, I switched my 17" monitor over to my PC. Next thing I knew, my Mac's monitor was telling me that it needed to be restarted - but not in the good way. It was in that way that my computer crashed, and I had to force a restart.

Okay, that's alright. I hold down the power button, give it a single click, and it restarts. No dead Mac icon, so that's a good thing. It starts to restart, and eventually gets to the blue screen, then....nothing.

uh oh.

I tried a disk utility, and it repairs the disk, which usually does the job.

Not this time.

So i reinstall Operating System - I knew this was risky, but hey, I back up, so what's the worst that could happen?

The reinstall went well, and it all seemed to be in working order. I was able to restart, get to all of my files, and do a back-up of all important files.

cool..

So, I went along my way, and had a nice weekend. I only needed my computer for IM'ing, email, web, etc,.

Last night, I opened up a Photoshop file that I was working on for a client.

That's when I found out that some of my fonts aren't in my system anymore.

Crap.

Okay - that's okay. I actually still have my 6+ year old Powerbook, that has most of my fonts as well. This morning, I managed to boot it up, found the fonts, and Dick and I managed to remember how to add it to the network.

So, this should be simple now, right?

My old computer is hooked up to my current one, and I should be able to just copy the font files over.

wrong

Whenever I try to copy any font files over, I'm told that I don't have "sufficient privileges".

Okay - tech gurus, what's up with this? I feel like I'm one step away from making this all work again.

any advice?

update

All fixed!
(I love my hubby!)