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[Penrynz]

Yeah, I know. It was all my fault. I installed Nuala theme this afternoon without reading that it was designed only for Snow Leopard. After installation, my Mac become a complete mess. I've been trying to use the built-in uninstaller of the theme but there's no use...

Anyone has any idea? It really drives me mad... I was such a foooooooollllll.

Here's the link where I downloaded it: http://www.iconpaper...-themes/page/2/ (Nuala theme)

Here's my pooor desktop screen:

[+jamesyfx]

Why don't you re-install Lion? That will just replace all of the resources that were overwritten.

[Long Dong Silver]

Lunar Knight, on 11 August 2012 - 10:34, said:

Here's my pooor desktop screen:

Looks beautiful !

Jokes apart, what whiles did you replace? Maybe someone can send you some vanilla files from LION.

[.Neo]

Both the installer and uninstaller contain OS X Snow Leopard system files. Hence the above result.


You can launch the installer > hit cmd + I to see which files have been replaced by the theme > replace those with OS X Lion's original files somehow (maybe a Time Machine backup?). If you can't you're looking at a complete reinstallation your OS.

[Penrynz]

Big Daddy Cool, on 11 August 2012 - 12:01, said:

Looks beautiful !

Jokes apart, what whiles did you replace? Maybe someone can send you some vanilla files from LION.

lol. Sadly,I don't know which file were overwritten...

.Neo, on 11 August 2012 - 12:23, said:

Both the installer and uninstaller contain OS X Snow Leopard system files. Hence the above result.


You can launch the installer > hit cmd + I to see what files have been replaced > replace those with OS X Lion own files somehow (maybe a Time Machine backup?). Or you're looking at a reinstalling your OS.

I tried to recover the OS but currently stuck at the "Downloading additional components". The remaining is about 100h which may take up to forever lol...

I will try the method you give to find out which files were replaced. However I haven't made any Time Machine backups so there's nothing I could to to restore it. I'm at 10.7.4.

Edit: Here's the list of files in this install package, can someone help me with these?

[.Neo]

Sorry for the poor English, just came out of bed. I'm not a morning person at all. Fixed my post to be a little bit more coherent. -_-"


The only other easy option I can think of is to download and (re)install the OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo). With a bit of lunch it contains all your replaced system files. It's a long shot though. Personally I would have never bothered and just went ahead with the reinstallation of OS X.

[.Neo]

I see you edited your post. Somehow you'll need to obtain the above files and replace them with OS X Lion originals. I can't help you with that since I don't run OS X Lion anymore.

[Penrynz]

.Neo, on 11 August 2012 - 12:50, said:

Sorry for the poor English, just came out of bed. I'm not a morning person at all. Fixed my post to be a little bit more coherent. -_-"


The only other easy option I can think of is to download and (re)install the OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo). With a bit of lunch it contains all your replaced system files. It's a long shot though. Personally I would have never bothered and just went ahead with the reinstallation of OS X.

Thanks for your reply. I tried to reinstall but hey, after a 1-2h wait, I'm still stuck at "Downloading additional components" and the ETA is really insane: ~100h. I really lost my patience.

[.Neo]

Cancel and restart the download. See if that helps.

[Penrynz]

.Neo, on 11 August 2012 - 13:23, said:

Cancel and restart the download. See if that helps.

Still stuck...

[Long Dong Silver]

Lunar Knight, on 11 August 2012 - 13:57, said:

Still stuck...

You tried downloading this OS X Lion 10.7.4 Client Combo

Or did you try the ol' sucky Software Update route?

[.Neo]

Big Daddy Cool, on 11 August 2012 - 14:12, said:

Or did you try the ol' sucky Software Update route?

Software Update isn't going to help you if v10.7.4 is already installed....

Lunar Knight, on 11 August 2012 - 13:57, said:

Still stuck...

You can't cancel?

[Penrynz]

.Neo, on 11 August 2012 - 14:44, said:

Software Update isn't going to help you if v10.7.4 is already installed....


You can't cancel?

I canceled and tried to reinstall again and it was stuck at download screen. How pathetic...
I'm downloading the 10.7.4 Combo update, hope it works...

[+articuno1au]

/pat

That's about all I can do to help you here.

[Tyler R.]

Backup all of your stuff and re install Lion...or, if your machine is supported, go to the Apple store and pick up 10.8. What a great reason to upgrade, huh?