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Soundhound

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Mar 29, 2006
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I'm having some problems and Disk Warrior says it was able to create a new directory, but that the existing directory is too damaged to be able to be replaced.

Not sure what my next step would be. I always have Time Machine running on the whole drive, so I'm thinking of restoring from a Time Machine backup, but I wonder if that won't recreate the problems I'm having?

I'm hoping that maybe Time Machine will fix any system problems it sees, but have no idea if that's just wishful thinking.

Would the thing to do be to restore the OS completely, and then somehow bring over all the files outside the system? The problem is I have a ton of software (music) that I think creates system files? Not sure. And if so, then I would lose all that/have to reinstall many things?

Sorry for the convoluted question, and thanks for any help!
 
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