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post #16 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:07am
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Originally Posted by LabelKing View Post
Nothing, and yet in Recent Items, it says Finder.
I'm going to say it was the 10.4.11 update. When I did mine through software update Safari would crash as soon as I clicked on the icon and the Searchlight search box wouldn't stay open for me to type anything into it. I think you're going to have to do a full reinstall. If/when you do, don't grab the update from the toolbar. Go to the Apple site and download the Combo Intel update. It's worked like a charm so far.
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post #17 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:10am
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How would you copy certain files if you do a Full resinstall? Without the finder, I don't know how to back up files.
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post #18 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:27am
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How would you copy certain files if you do a Full resinstall? Without the finder, I don't know how to back up files.
Do you have an external drive? You could do a clone via Disk Utility. The easiest option is via a separate program. If you have a .Mac account you can use the Apple backup program. Otherwise, you'll have to download something. I'd recommend either SuperDuper for shareware or iBackup 2008 for freeware. There is something on SourceForge as well but I've never tried it. Here are searches for backup on MacUpdate and VersionTracker. Let me know if you need any more help. http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?...ckup&os=macosx http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs...cosx&submit=Go
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post #19 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:30am
Just realized another option, sorry. If you have a networked drive or computer you could use an FTP program to send them over.
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post #20 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:35am
might be a good time to go 10.5....
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post #21 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:39am
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How then would you open up the file since Finder does not load?
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post #22 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:57am
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How then would you open up the file since Finder does not load?
You're not even getting new downloads to show? Fuck, that's a doozy. Have you tried starting in safe mode? Hold shift during bootup.
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post #23 of 30
12/22/07 at 7:02am
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You're not even getting new downloads to show? Fuck, that's a doozy.

Have you tried starting in safe mode? Hold shift during bootup.

They show up in that downloads dialog box, but only there.

I've started in Safe Mode but the same thing happens.

I think I will upload some of important files to an online base and use iTunes to burn my music library and then reinstall the whole thing.
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post #24 of 30
12/22/07 at 7:11am
Before you do that you could try the Archive and Install option on the Tiger disk. Here's a primer: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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post #25 of 30
12/22/07 at 10:06am
If you happen to have access to a second Mac, Firewire Disk Mode might solve your backup problems.
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post #26 of 30
12/22/07 at 11:25am
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Before you do that you could try the Archive and Install option on the Tiger disk. Here's a primer: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
I am unfamiliar with all the bells and whistles that OS X offers since utilities for it, both hardware and software, are expensive and hard to come across for free since I am the only one I know who uses a mac. There are a few things to try: 1) reinstall using the link above sounds like your best bet since it preserves /Users 2) the genius bar has been good to me, they can backup your files up to 10-20GB or something like that, this is why it is a good idea to keep everything you can't live without in your Users folder. They can then reinstall in the store and give you your files back. 3) Click on the desktop and try to open the finder clicking apple+N. 4) plug in an external harddrive and try to use spotlight (quicksilver is so much better) to open the Terminal application, which will let you get to the Unix side of OS X. Type: ls /Volumes this will show you what the external is called, probably NONAME, we'll assume this. then, cd /Volumes/NONAME then copy your home directory to the external cp -R `echo $HOME` . Those are accent marks, or "backticks", not single quotes. If you get any errors, which you might if the external is not formatted as a mac drive then try making a tar archive by going tar cf labelking.bak.tar `echo $HOME`
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post #27 of 30
12/22/07 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by tiecollector View Post
I am unfamiliar with all the bells and whistles that OS X offers since utilities for it, both hardware and software, are expensive and hard to come across for free since I am the only one I know who uses a mac. There are a few things to try: 1) reinstall using the link above sounds like your best bet since it preserves /Users 2) the genius bar has been good to me, they can backup your files up to 10-20GB or something like that, this is why it is a good idea to keep everything you can't live without in your Users folder. They can then reinstall in the store and give you your files back. 3) Click on the desktop and try to open the finder clicking apple+N. 4) plug in an external harddrive and try to use spotlight (quicksilver is so much better) to open the Terminal application, which will let you get to the Unix side of OS X. Type: ls /Volumes this will show you what the external is called, probably NONAME, we'll assume this. then, cd /Volumes/NONAME then copy your home directory to the external cp -R `echo $HOME` . Those are accent marks, or "backticks", not single quotes. If you get any errors, which you might if the external is not formatted as a mac drive then try making a tar archive by going tar cf labelking.bak.tar `echo $HOME`
Terminal was going to be my next suggestion but LK didn't strike me as being a Unix snob. If you decide to take this route LK, there are also commands that will list all of your folders, show you what's in a particular folder, etc. Tie might know them or you can check them out on the apple support site. Good luck whatever you end up doing.
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post #28 of 30
12/22/07 at 4:46pm
Yes, 10.4.11 caused this. Apparently the installer for it would fail to work on occasion, which causes everything from Finder icons not appearing, all the way down to the system not even booting. I lucked out with the icons not appearing, and it has seemed to of fixed its self anyway.

Amazing how bad Apple can foul up their software updates. They had some major issues about 5 months ago with the AirPort Extreme update where it would reset the logic board.
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post #29 of 30
12/22/07 at 6:02pm
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Fortunately I fixed everything by reinstalling the hard-drive. I managed to back up my Itunes library onto my iPod and other files via an online download base.
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post #30 of 30
12/22/07 at 9:38pm
interesting the knowledgebase in this forum
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