Yesterday out of nowhere my imac g5 started acting screwy on me. First, all the things sitting on my desktop disappeared(including the HD icon) and then I was and am still not able to open my finder. Now I can't even reformat anything because I can't open my finder to first back everything up. Also, all the things next to the spotlight icon have disappeared too, like the time, bluetooth, etc. I can't even load up the OS X disk, there's just no way to run it. So yeah, that's about it, hopefully someone will have some advice.
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Huge OS X Problems, Finder and More
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Repair permissions. Use Disk Utility to do that, you have it, it is in your utilities folder.
You weren't trying to install a questionable version of office when this happened were you?
You weren't trying to install a questionable version of office when this happened were you?
Sean McDonnell said:
The first thing I would suggest is getting a thread started over on Apple Discussions, the official Apple forums, they have some great people to help you there. Also, I know when I recently had problems with finder that re-installing the OS X 10.4.2 update fixed everything.
Also, I have heard of a program called Path Finder that will allow you to browse your HD, kind of an alternative to finder. You could look into this to help you back up.
Sounds like a bad problem, best of luck getting it fixed up. I really think the people at Apple discussions can help you, be sure to give that a shot.
Well, the problem is fixed. Thanks to MrSugar's suggestion of Path Finder, I was able to run the OS X disk to archive and install, and everything seems to be in working order. Thanks for the help.
None of these options worked for me. I just opted to disable os x indexing. fixed the problem right away.
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