This is my plea to the Macrumor Community:
Please give me my Mac, back!!

THE GAME PLAN!: I am grateful for any input, ideas, or suggestions.
THE PROBLEM!!: ......just trying to keep calm, and carry on =/
How can I install and use CrashPlanPRO without the use of finder?
I have tried manually mounting the disk image:
Then copying it to Applications,
I also tried turning it on with:
No such file, it says..
It seems to me that if I could get CrashPlanPRO to open, and discover my external hard drive, that I am pretty much 'in the clear' at that point.
So... any advice for getting me to that blessed point of step 2?
DIRTY-DETAILS: the 'why' of where I'm at now.
I started experiencing a "Finder Unexpectedly Quit"-loop, after my system mysteriously ran an update (I had explicitly asked my computer NOT to perform such updates).
WHAT HAVE I DONE!?: just about anything I have come across that others have tried who were experiencing a similar issue.
--In the past, I was a fool; I have now learned the importance backing up your computer--
Please give me my Mac, back!!
THE GAME PLAN!: I am grateful for any input, ideas, or suggestions.
- I intend to back up my external hard drive, using CrashPlanPRO (trial)
- Then, reformat the external HD to *clone my Mac's internal HD
- With all of my data safely stored on the external HD, I will perform a complete erase and install of the Lion OS, on the Mac's HD
- When all is said and done~ I can pick and choose what I need from the external HD -- namely, User folders (Applications, Music, Photos, etc)
*I am not 100% what type of 'cloning' method I would use -- It seems that some options allow for straight up archiving, and others would make it so that there is nothing to do with the data besides use it in a restore attempt?
THE PROBLEM!!: ......just trying to keep calm, and carry on =/
How can I install and use CrashPlanPRO without the use of finder?
I have tried manually mounting the disk image:
Code:
hdiutil mount CrashPlanPRO_3-1.5.3_Mac.dmg
Code:
sudo cp -R /Volumes/CrashPlanPRO/CrashPlanPRO.app /Applications
This resulted in only an "uninstall" application showing up in the Launchpad, but no client to trigger the CrashPlan application to open.
I was also unable to open it manually in terminal, by taking shots-in-the-dark at what the client would be named >_>I also tried turning it on with:
Code:
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
sudo launchctl start com.crashplan.engine
It seems to me that if I could get CrashPlanPRO to open, and discover my external hard drive, that I am pretty much 'in the clear' at that point.
So... any advice for getting me to that blessed point of step 2?
DIRTY-DETAILS: the 'why' of where I'm at now.
I started experiencing a "Finder Unexpectedly Quit"-loop, after my system mysteriously ran an update (I had explicitly asked my computer NOT to perform such updates).
I also have no access to the majority of my applications; I have been in a pseudo-safe-mode [only able to run Safari to research the problem, and StickyNotes to take note of my findings].
WHAT HAVE I DONE!?: just about anything I have come across that others have tried who were experiencing a similar issue.
- Deleted the Finder.pref file
- Deleted the Finder.savedState file
- Created a new Admin account
- Repaired permissions from the Recovery mode
- Plenty of reboot's; one after each attempted solution
- Uninstalled NTSF for Mac
- Installed+Used Maintenance
- Downloaded, but was unable to Use PathFinder
--In the past, I was a fool; I have now learned the importance backing up your computer--