Help! Update or Filevault Problems

[sari]

Hi,

I ran an OSX 10.3.9 update on my G5 PowerMac. As I restarted Filevault notified me I was using too much disk space but as I was in a hurry I didn't take the offer of optimising the space.

Upon restart I noticed my dock had changed, I had none of my items on my desktop and there was a sara.sparseimage on my Finder file list. In desperation I ran Repair File Permissions before restarting but that did not solve my problem.

It seems that all my documents are in this sparseimage disk but I cannot find my messages in Entourage as I don't have 'permission'.

Does anybody have any idea what I can do to get things back to the way they were?

Many thanks

 

[fryke]

If all the files are in that sparseimage, you can simply mount it by giving the FileVault password. Either way: I'd back that up on a FW or USB-2 harddrive and reinstall the OS on the PowerMac. And I would _not_ recommend to activate FileVault again, unless you plan on _always_ having more free space on the internal drive than your home folder will ever use.