Ack! What is going on!?

Da_iMac_Daddy

Da_iMac_Daddy

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OK for awhile now my finder has been acting weird, now some of my preference panes arent working (actually i only know of my user's preferences being screwy) and now chimera says that another version is running and it quits. Also ive been having trouble with logins and other general screwiness. If anyone could help me out i would appreciate it.
 
Ok i went ahead and did that but on the startup disk i got an error i forget what it was but something about leafs and when it was done verifying it would let me repair.... whats up with that?
 
The error messages displayed within FirstAid are fairly egg-headed. The file structure on most OS's - OSX included - is heirarchical, like an inverted tree. Imagine the root directory is the 'trunk' of the tree, each folder is a 'branch' and each file a 'leaf'. Apparently, First Aid found a problem with a 'leaf node' - or an individual file.

It's impossible to say exactly what caused the problem. One thing that can definitely do it is if a program crashes while writing to a file, or if power is lost during a file write. But there are other ways.

If the problem was successfully repaired, you may, hopefully, no longer have the problems you mentioned.
 
In order to do the repairs, you have to click on the HD's name, not it's hardware description. For example, when I run First Aid, along the left I see:

57.27 GB IBM-
Apple 60GB

If I select the first line, I can only verify. But if I select the SECOND, I can also repair.

Of course, First Aid will NEVER let you repair the disk you've booted from, hence the importance of booting from a CD.
 
Verify is just a waste of time, just choose repair, repair verifies and then repairs automatically, if it can, and assuming you're booted to the OSX install CD, you should be able to choose repair. You may have damaged pref files, anyway, that Disk utility may not help with. You might as well run repair permissions while you're there
 
I'm pretty sure it had nothing to do with my selection because the only thing I could select (other than my external drives) was my main disk. The problem is that it would not let me repair. So it doesn't really matter if repair verifies it first. Well anyway I'll try something different later. Thanx anyway
 
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