Is Slow Leopard MAD?!?

[allan.nyholm]

Looks like you have applied an iconset from CandyBar judging from your HD icon. Have you tried restoring with CandyBar? I think you just lost your CoreTypes.bundle icons. Check here: Boot drive/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle. Right click the file and choose Show Package Contents. Once you are in the Resources folder you start looking for your folders and disk icons. If they are there then great. If not then boo. You'll then need to extract them from your installation DVD using Pacifist or reinstall your system.

Actually I think CandyBar holds a copy of all released Leopard and Snow Leopard icons inside CandyBar.app. You'll just need to copy these back with their correct names.

 

[Consultant]

I'v tried repair disk and nothing changed. Re-installing is my last resort; and it will proberly solve the problem, but I don't have a hard drive to back-up my work, ect. Only a 4GB USB Stick :L

The Mac OS X standard "re-install" do not erase your data. Only reinstalls the OS portion.

I'v only used up 30GB, and half that is just OSX files.

PLUS: all my apps can easily be re-download from sources, although I do appreciate the fact that i really need an external hard drive, but i don't wanna splash out >£100 just for a HDD. Need the money for contracts/accessories for iP4.

Although it will be on my list. Cheers,

Sounds like one of the apps you "downloaded" might be bad.

 

[MaCamZa]

The Mac OS X standard "re-install" do not erase your data. Only reinstalls the OS portion.




Sounds like one of the apps you "downloaded" might be bad.

Ok... So i can insert the boot disk and re-install without losing data? How can I do that?

Looks like you have applied an iconset from CandyBar judging from your HD icon. Have you tried restoring with CandyBar? I think you just lost your CoreTypes.bundle icons. Check here: Boot drive/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle. Right click the file and choose Show Package Contents. Once you are in the Resources folder you start looking for your folders and disk icons. If they are there then great. If not then boo. You'll then need to extract them from your installation DVD using Pacifist or reinstall your system.

Actually I think CandyBar holds a copy of all released Leopard and Snow Leopard icons inside CandyBar.app. You'll just need to copy these back with their correct names.

^^ Tried finding Boot drive/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle ; could not find that.

How do I extract them from my installation DVD from Pacifist and reinstall them?

EDIT: Re-Install OS only and restored everything back. Everything normal now, just need to update Safari as it's back to version 4

 

[mulo]

I know this is completely off topic but would you be able to pull up those icons in your dock, either as a high ress screenshot or the actual file? I find them awesome!

 

[smitty078]

1) As several other people here have stated - GET AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE AND BACK UP. Even if you do not have a hard drive issue, this is always a good idea. It is also the first thing you want to do whenever you are having any sort of problem with your computer. By backing up you have a worst case scenario of restoring your system to end up back where you are now.

2) Have you ever used any application (Candybar most likely) to change your system icons? If YES then repost stating what utility you used and someone can offer further help. More than likely none of the standard maintenance procedures will help you. Otherwise read on.

3) Rebuild the launch services database by pasting the following command into the terminal.

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

4) Delete all of your caches by doing entering the following in the terminal. When it asks for your password, use your own password.

sudo rm -Rf /System/Library/Caches /Library/Caches ~/Library/Caches

5) Reboot

 

[Brinkman]

So running the combo update didn't fix it?

Strange.

 

[derekamoss]

Yes. I would alway advise that it is run from the OSX disk, generally sorts out more of my problems.

Actually using the disc if it is 10.6.0 will not help his machine. Apple purposefully changes permissions sometimes through updates. Using Built in Disk Repair is better as it will not reset permissions that were purposefully changed.