greenfrog5
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My MBP Intel running OSX 10.5 crashed hard last week. I was using a few high-demand programs, and the computer froze like I've never seen a Mac freeze - including my iTunes music skipping forever (which I've never had on a Mac before). Since this, I have noticed a few issues which I have not been able to resolve.
1) My Time Machine backups have been broken. I can access my backups, but Time Machine will not complete the next backup. There is a stuck 'inprogress' file on my TM drive that is protected and I cannot remove it. I assume this is the problem. I have a FW800 LaCie 750 drive with a 200GB HFS+ partition for Time Machine to cover my 160GB internal drive.
2) I cannot empty my trash of most files. I have been able to move the files out to my desktop and use terminal to remove them. The files are not locked or protected. Some files can be deleted from the trash, but most cannot. I get no warning or error. It confirms if I want to remove them, then never does. Then I "cannot open the trash because it is being emptied". I need to restart Finder to reset this, then to the desktop-remove to delete things. Secure-empty-trash doesn't work either.
3) My OSX Installer doesn't work. In trying to troubleshoot this I'm trying to install Onyx and AppleJack, but the Installer doesn't work for either one. It gets to the screen where you select the drive and click 'Install'. It thinks for a few secs reads the drive, then un-clicks the Install button and just sits. Clicking it again has no response like a dead-button.
I have repaired my disk permissions (where a bunch of irrelevant 'user template' files had wrong permissions fixed) and 'repair disk' (with nothing wrong) (from OSX DVD) which doesn't help.
I have tried terminal-remove of the TM file, but they are locked. I cannot move or delete the TM files.
Sometimes I can simply empty the trash normally (usually when there is just one or a few files, usually recent files) Sometimes I can 'sudo rm .Trash' which works, and other times I need to move the files to a folder on the Desktop and sudo remove them there.
I am really concerned about the Installer not working as this seems to suggest a serious problem and prevents me from installing things I need to help me fix these problems. I don't even know where to begin troubleshooting this and am worried it might lead to a full reinstall (so I'd like to get Time Machine fixed ASAP as I'm manually backing up new work at the moment which is tedious!)
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated, Thanks
Aaron
1) My Time Machine backups have been broken. I can access my backups, but Time Machine will not complete the next backup. There is a stuck 'inprogress' file on my TM drive that is protected and I cannot remove it. I assume this is the problem. I have a FW800 LaCie 750 drive with a 200GB HFS+ partition for Time Machine to cover my 160GB internal drive.
2) I cannot empty my trash of most files. I have been able to move the files out to my desktop and use terminal to remove them. The files are not locked or protected. Some files can be deleted from the trash, but most cannot. I get no warning or error. It confirms if I want to remove them, then never does. Then I "cannot open the trash because it is being emptied". I need to restart Finder to reset this, then to the desktop-remove to delete things. Secure-empty-trash doesn't work either.
3) My OSX Installer doesn't work. In trying to troubleshoot this I'm trying to install Onyx and AppleJack, but the Installer doesn't work for either one. It gets to the screen where you select the drive and click 'Install'. It thinks for a few secs reads the drive, then un-clicks the Install button and just sits. Clicking it again has no response like a dead-button.
I have repaired my disk permissions (where a bunch of irrelevant 'user template' files had wrong permissions fixed) and 'repair disk' (with nothing wrong) (from OSX DVD) which doesn't help.
I have tried terminal-remove of the TM file, but they are locked. I cannot move or delete the TM files.
Sometimes I can simply empty the trash normally (usually when there is just one or a few files, usually recent files) Sometimes I can 'sudo rm .Trash' which works, and other times I need to move the files to a folder on the Desktop and sudo remove them there.
I am really concerned about the Installer not working as this seems to suggest a serious problem and prevents me from installing things I need to help me fix these problems. I don't even know where to begin troubleshooting this and am worried it might lead to a full reinstall (so I'd like to get Time Machine fixed ASAP as I'm manually backing up new work at the moment which is tedious!)
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated, Thanks
Aaron
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