Snow Leopard/ app's and files corrupted

PoopaAnski

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Good evening,
I have a small, but irritating problem. Sunday night I finally got around to upgrading to Snow Leopard. This is where the fun begins! The external drive has a copy of my old system 10.5.8 with everything on it including CS3/ Office 2008 and even iTunes. Those along with many of my desktop folders which had reference photos were almost entirely corrupted.

Corrupted? Well, I see them there but when you engage them, a popup window displays and and says, for instance, "The file xxxxx does not open, OS does not recognize format" but the "file xxxx is a .jpg file!

Then there was the nightmare of seeing app's that normally work, ie, Photoshop just bounces on the dock and refused to open. Poser was the best. The icon disappeared from the dock all together. I tried first re-installing the software from the external. When that didn't work, I had to go and (for the last 48 hrs) delete all of the programs and reinstall and re-register. That helped along with a 48-minute call to Apple trying not to sound too stupid when explaining that my episodes of The Amazing Race wouldn't play in iTunes except for Episode 6 which was downloading after I got 10.6.2 installed late Sunday night/ early Monday morning.

Everytime I try to drop a photo in a particular desktop folder, I need to "Authenticate" that move. Looking in the preference doesn't give me any clue as to how to stop this questioning. I look at the dozen or so movie folders in my movie sidebar and can only access about 40%, although I see the names of the movies there, OSX tells me that it doesn't not recognize the format. (It doesn't recognize .mp4!)

Should I try to just reinstall Snow Leopard again or should I just give up and go back to 10.5.8?

HELP!!!!!!!!!!
 
You didn't properly do your backups. You can't drag and drop the entire HD structure and expect everything to just work. Its much more complex than that. But Apple has many built in tools for creating full backups (Time Machine) and many options for creating bootable clones and disk images of the HD structure (through disk utility) so everything stays intact, even in the case of a complete system crash to restore the machine exactly as it was before. Its hard to help now without knowing the full extent to how you might have screwed things up. You have to describe in detail exactly what you did to cause this, as opposed to just telling us whats wrong now, to get good help.
 
You mention that you have an external drive with your 10.5.8 installation on it, my question now would be, is this drive bootable?
BTW, if you consider your present situation "small but irritating", I'd like to know what it would take before you would consider something a major problem.
 
Okay guys,
I think I got your messages loud and clear. My rump has been paddled quite convincingly, thank you.

I did the backups with Time Machine. In fact, the head of IT for the company I did the payroll for did it for me and with his own, new 250GB external drive.

Now, having spoken with Apple's tech dept over the phone and having it worked on by The Genius Bar in The Falls (South Miami)-- neither could say what went wrong. My receipt from the Genius Bar says that a full "ASD with DMA scan" found no trouble with the HD.

Now, why can't the reinstalled Poser 8 and Anime Studio 6 (by Smith Micro) launch? Any ideas "djackmac" or "jbarley" ?
 
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