Macintosh HD missing on desktop & Time Machine question
Hiya,
I've tried to delete my disk and backup my data from Time Machine but when I did it I couldn't start any non apple application, every app quit before it started. Then I decided to delete everything again and just install OS X v. 10.6 and start all over again.
Now, first q: my Macintosh HD is not on the desktop and I don't know how to bring it back!
I tried to restore applications but again they all crash even before opening. Does anyone know what's the problem?
Anyones help is very much appreciated!
I've tried to delete my disk and backup my data from Time Machine but when I did it I couldn't start any non apple application, every app quit before it started. Then I decided to delete everything again and just install OS X v. 10.6 and start all over again.
Now, first q: my Macintosh HD is not on the desktop and I don't know how to bring it back!
I tried to restore applications but again they all crash even before opening. Does anyone know what's the problem?
Anyones help is very much appreciated!
Comments
Select your volume and click "Repair Disk Permissions". Let Disk Utility to do its job.
Usually, it helps.
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(if Disk Utility doesn't start, you may need to do it from terminal window as a superuser:
sudo /Applications/Utilities/Disk\\ Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk\\ Utility
; then enter super user's password).
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As for "Macintosh HD" icon on the Desktop, go into Finder > Preferences > General > Show These Items On The Desktop, when Finder starts and verify what is checked. If it does not help, try to trash the preferences file /Users/<yourname>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and then to reboot.
First, launch Disk Utility
Select your volume and click "Repair Disk Permissions". Let Disk Utility to do its job.
Usually, it helps.
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(if Disk Utility doesn't start, you may need to do it from terminal window as a superuser:
sudo /Applications/Utilities/Disk\\ Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk\\ Utility
; then enter super user's password).
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As for "Macintosh HD" icon on the Desktop, go into Finder > Preferences > General > Show These Items On The Desktop, when Finder starts and verify what is checked. If it does not help, try to trash the preferences file /Users/<yourname>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and then to reboot.
Thank you very much Ivan, I got the problem with the icon sorted, but the disk permissions don't work, I had to reinstall everything. Tell me please is it possible to restore just one or two applications from my Time Machine now that I have everything freshly installed? I cannot find my first installation disk that came with the mac where I had iPhoto?
thank you one more time, that was well explained...
Thank you very much Ivan, I got the problem with the icon sorted, but the disk permissions don't work, I had to reinstall everything. Tell me please is it possible to restore just one or two applications from my Time Machine now that I have everything freshly installed? I cannot find my first installation disk that came with the mac where I had iPhoto?
thank you one more time, that was well explained...
If Time Machine sees its own previously created backups as valid ones, it's a piece of cake. "Enter Time Machine" and select some date before you'd got all those problems. Then just navigate to the application you need, select it and click "Restore" partition of the TM's control bar.
It doesn't harm, if you care to install OS updates from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple, being older, than your date of restore, first.
The problem may come from the fact TM invalidates usually its ancient backups after major computer configuration changes. They become inaccessible through TM UI.
Then simply open your backup disk in the Finder and navigate to Backups.backupsdb/<your computer name>/<date>/<your drive: Machintosh HD>/Applications; select desired application and copy it into your /Applications folder. Please install necessary system updates before that. In high probability, it should work.