Recent content by imacg5needshelp

can you access with admin priv on any user? if so make a root user and you will have access to take care of permissions.

Yep. Updated on line. The damage was done then. I found an apple support that said to download the combo dmg and reinstall to fix the problem people were having. I downloaded and installed but no joy. I'm looking at superduper as one of my alternatives. I'm designing a web page for a...

I created a root user and can access all my files thru finder im creating a temp user for the work i need to do and transfering the required files. ive started gathering all my files for backup so ill be able to do a fresh install in the next few days. i think its under control first...

have you gone into finder/ disk utilities and done a varify? mine showed several errors and told me i had to repair. just a thought

can you still access an account with admin priveledges? if so you can create a root user. this will allow you to access all account files even if you cant log in. its not a complete solution but it a start. as a temporary fix until i have time to reinstall leopard ive created a new user and...

Went back to Disk Utility and ran Verify Disk. It came back with the following errors. Invalid directory item count. (it should be 36 instead of 35) Volume Bit Map needs minor repair Invalid volume free block count (it should be 15205840 instead of 15135533) The volume Macintosh HD needs to...

I think we have a pattern here. I installed 10.5.6 this morning and im locked out of primary user. I knew there were problems with 10.5.6 but thought they were fixed. I tried reinstalling the update by hand with no change. I ran utility to fix permissions and no joy there either.

Followup: Ive done repair permissions. No joy. Ive downloaded the combo update for 10.5.6 and reinstalled by hand. No joy. Still locked out of primary user. Still cant access files from that user folder even with admin priviledges as another user.

I finally decided to to authorize the OS X update 10.5.6. Upon restart it went to login screen but i noticed my guest account was missing. Trying to login to my main account the screen turned into the default background for leopard, no icons appeared, then screen goes blue and goes back to...