Lilrich Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hey Guys, What a weekend i have had, was working away last night on some documentation when all of a sudden applications started quitting unexpectedly and also new apps would not open with the same error, so i shutdown popped the Snow disk in and ran a Permission fix and a disk repair both which executed sucessfully. I then came out of the Snow boot disk only to be greeted with a crashing finder, it would load initially but then within moments would crash and close and would not load again. Okay so now we have a problem....i had data on the computer that i had been working on over the weekend (yes i know, backup, backup, backup but i didnt) so i had to boot out of OS X and into Single user mode (Command-s) once i got their i had to run a couple of commands one of which loaded the AppleSetupDone screen on startup this then allowed me to create a new admin account once i had done this i was able to login to that account and the finder would load (no right click tho, and clicking the top bar would crash finder) so now i had to go into the terminal and give the new user FULL ACCESS to my main accounts home folder, after some searching i found a lengthy chmod command that allowed me to do this, so i hooked up a external disk and copied what i needed off the computer. I have no idea why this happend, all i had done between Friday and Sunday was play with GeekTool adding a couple of small scripts to the desktop. Now then, should i do a FULL Re-install and wipe the entire disk and start from a Vanilla state using the restore disks that came with the machine then upgrade to snow leopard or should i do an archive & install using the Snow Leopard disk? Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonbear Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 You can do a full clean install with the Snow Leopard disc, no need to install Leopard then upgrade. I'd go with clean full install if you aren't fussed with setting everything up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilrich Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 You can do a full clean install with the Snow Leopard disc, no need to install Leopard then upgrade. I'd go with clean full install if you aren't fussed with setting everything up again. Yea i was going to do that but the only thing that crossed my mind was that i would loose my ilife suite as that is on the main disks. I suppose i can install that seperate once the OS is back up and running. I have also bought a 500GB external and superduper! to avoid this in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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