Disk Utility and Etc not responding

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honeymae

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Hi,
Can you tell me how I can fix my system... Almost all my applications are not responding. I can open them but the application crashes as soon as i try to use it. So far it has affected software update, disk utility, textedit, thunderbird, etc... is this some kind of virus or what can i do? I'm running 1.3.9 and on the brink of upgrading to Tiger. I think the problem started after i did ran software update...

Honey Mae
 
Run 'fsck' on the system;

1. Restart your Mac.

2. Immediately press and hold the Command and "S" keys.

You'll see a bunch of text begin scrolling on your screen. In a few more seconds, you'll see the Unix command line prompt (#).

You're now in single-user mode.

Now that you're at the # prompt, here's how to run fsck:

1. Type: "fsck -f" (that's fsck-space-minus-f) (without the quotes)

2. Press Return.

The fsck utility will blast some text onto your screen. If there's damage to your disk, you'll see a message that says:

***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

If you see this message--and this is extremely important-- repeat running fsck. It is normal to have to run fsck more than once -- the first run's repairs often uncover additional problems..

When fsck finally reports that no problems were found, and the # prompt reappears:

3. Type: "reboot" to restart,

or type "exit" to start up without rebooting.

4. Press Return.

Your Mac should proceed to start up normally to the login window or the Finder.
 
Hi ya

Wait till you get a response from a techie. but I too experienced problems after a update, i learned my lesson not to do the updates immediately they come up.

All I could do was reload the software. In my case I lost all my data because I was not able to backup any data. I have since made sure I have a copy of my disk using CCC (carbon copy from mem) good luck

Hennessymac
 
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