Applications folder disappeared installing leopard.

[gifford]

I installed leopard onto my girlfriends computer, and now the applications folder has completely disappeared.

Blooody marvelous.

I cant imagine it will magically appear, or that anyone will be able to provide me with a solution. Cant find anything on google, so thought I would have a moan on here.

 

[merl1n]

I installed leopard onto my girlfriends computer, and now the applications folder has completely disappeared.

Blooody marvelous.

I cant imagine it will magically appear, or that anyone will be able to provide me with a solution. Cant find anything on google, so thought I would have a moan on here.

Use the terminal application and do the following:

1. See if it is just hidden:

ls -lOd /

and look for "Applications"

It may appear as such:

drwxrwxr-t@ 32 root admin hidden 1156 Feb 8 20:35 /Applications

2. To fix this type:

sudo chflags nohidden /Applications

3. Then run Disk Utility and run a "repair permissions" on the disk volume name.

 

[gifford]

Hey thats not a bad idea whatsoever, will have a look...

 

[gifford]

No luck. I tried what you suggested, and have also had a poke aroun with File Buddy.

Cheers anyway.

 

[enkidu]

There's also a command line tool "locate" which may be able to locate the files. What option did you use to install leopard?

 

[gifford]

There's also a command line tool "locate" which may be able to locate the files. What option did you use to install leopard?

I'm very confused here. My friends computer is acting weird after installing leopard also. Well at least I think its weird, I'm still using Tiger.

Is it normal to have no 'macintosh HD' icon on the desktop? I cant even find the 'macintosh HD' anywhere.
There is no HD in the side bar either (and finder prefs are ticked for Hard Disks)

Both computers installed leopard by just clicking 'upgrade' or 'update' whatever the first option given was.

 

[nick9191]

Yeah ugrade sucks, I'd just backup their stuff and reinstall.

 

[gifford]

In the side bar I clicked on home then did a 'command + up', I can now for the first time see 'macintosh hd' but it is greyed out and I cant drag it to the side bar...

 

[gifford]

SOLVED::

Opened Applescript and put in...

tell application "System Events"
set visible of disk "Macintosh HD" to true
end tell

tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch



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