apps in Mac OS 10.2 not working please help

[Cometdude]

Hi,
I just got Jaguar for my Ruby iMac. It has worked great until recently when I accidentally deleted a folder on my desktop that contained all of my games and homework and some pictures . Now the address book, iPhoto and the Mac help center apps don't work. They just bounce in the dock and then stop. How do I get them to work again. Another weird thing is that it most of the photos I had on iphoto are still there and I can still get the e-mail addresses in the Mail app. I am puzzled why this happened since I don't think that I had any of the deleted files had anything to do with those apps running. If someone could help me I would apprieciate it greatly!
Thanks!

 

[big]

ok, I just ran into this....

what I had to do was basically reinstall each app.
something with the libraries and prefs or some kind of linking will throw these all funny.

but once I did this, everything worked great again.

good luck

 

[Cometdude]

Hi,
Thanks for the info but, how do I reinstall the apps like the address book and help center without reinstalling Mac OS X?

 

[chmorley]

If you are right about what was in the folder you deleted, the fact that apps started malfunctioning afterwards is probably just a conincidence. I'd try these things:

1) Just restart--see if that fixes it. If not...

2) Restart with Command-S pressed to get to a command prompt. Once there, type "fsck -y" (without the quotes). If it finds problems, run it again until it finds no problems. When it finds no problems, type "reboot" (without quotes).

3) Try reinstalling the individual apps if you can.

Good luck!

Chris

 

[8thDegreeSavage]

Just do an "Archive and install" option install of 10.2 ...all will be fine then...you may have to reinstall some third party apps..thats it though.

 

[Falleron]

Originally posted by Cometdude
Hi,
Thanks for the info but, how do I reinstall the apps like the address book and help center without reinstalling Mac OS X?

Ok, I had to do this recently.

1) Get all software restore cd's handy.
2) Create a temporary folder somewhere
3) Go through all 5 software restore disks + copy the dmg files from the configuration folder on each cd to the new temporary folder.
4) Once you have all 5 dmg files off the cd's double click the first dmg. This will then mount a volume onto the desktop. Then just drag what you want back to you HD applications folder.

Note : this process takes about 4Gb of free space to pull everything off the CD