Messed up my macbook using Terminal

[iFanaddic]

I don't know what I did but I tried doing this simple hack, and I screwed up my password, when I tried doing it again and it said something something not found, but I still went on a entered the 2 other commands. when I clicked enter my dock disapearred and I was expecting it to pop back up but it never did. So I restarted my computer, and my wallpaper on my Log in page was gone, was I logged in I noticed my desktop's wallpaper was gone as well (replaced my a blue wallpaper) and my dock still isn't back!!

Now I have to do everything using spotlight and finder as I have no dock!

I tried launching terminal and typing in the killall dock command but the answer I got from terminal was "No matching processes belonging to you were found"

Am also noticing that expose, spaces, four finger swipes up or sideways arent working. BUT 2 finger scrolls, and 3 fingers to go to the previous page in safari still work. Can anyone please help me please? this is way beyond me...

 

[tpg]

OK, I've read the instructions you followed. I count 5 commands in total. At what point did you enter the password incorrectly?

Also, please post the output in the terminal when you run:

ls -al /System/Library/CoreServices/ | grep Dock

(This searches for the dock application in the system folder, and prints out some important information about it)

 

[iFanaddic]

OK, I've read the instructions you followed. I count 5 commands in total. At what point did you enter the password incorrectly?

Also, please post the output in the terminal when you run:

ls -al /System/Library/CoreServices/ | grep Dock

(This searches for the dock application in the system folder, and prints out some important information about it)

I messed up my password after the first step.

I tried "ls -al /System/Library/CoreServices/ | grep Dock" in terminal and it didnt work, it gave me another line to write something else.

thanks

 

[tpg]

I messed up my password after the first step.

I tried "ls -al /System/Library/CoreServices/ | grep Dock" in terminal and it didnt work, it gave me another line to write something else.

thanks

No - it did work! It just means you don't have a Dock.app where you need one, which explains your problems.

Next, please post output (or lack of) from:

ls -al ~/Desktop/OldDock/

(assuming you followed the instructions exactly).

 

[iFanaddic]

Oh really!?

Well I tried this new command and got nothing..still good?

 

[tpg]

Oh really!?

Well I tried this new command and got nothing..still good?

No... bad. Are you sure you followed the instructions exactly as written? Or perhaps you forgot to change your username...?

Try running (exactly as written)

ls -al /Users/USER/Desktop/OldDock/

 

[iFanaddic]

No... bad. Are you sure you followed the instructions exactly as written? Or perhaps you forgot to change your username...?

Try running (exactly as written)

ls -al /Users/USER/Desktop/OldDock/

I redid it and got "no such file or directory"

 

[iFanaddic]

do you wanna do an ichat session? i could let you share my screen with you

beaupre.mathieu@mac.com

 

[NJuul]

I redid it and got "no such file or directory"

When you did this:
"ls -al /Users/USER/Desktop/OldDock/"

did you remember to change "USER" with your username? (I know this is a silly question, but before panicking check the obvious)