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New Mac User... 10.5.8 Help please.

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portcontrol7

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Not the best day with my MacBook. Deleted almost the entire utilities folder. Complicated. Anyhow, I am 100 percent positive it is GONE, so please no replies like "check the trash", or use spotlight.

I insert my 10.5 install disk, and it's warped, unrecognizable. Can anyone zip up the utilities folder from 10.5 and send it to me??? I am screwed until then. Better yet, put it on an FTP server and email me access? Message me and I will provide my email.

No more toying around in root... :(
 
portcontrol7 said:
Not the best day with my MacBook. Deleted almost the entire utilities folder. Complicated. Anyhow, I am 100 percent positive it is GONE, so please no replies like "check the trash", or use spotlight.

I insert my 10.5 install disk, and it's warped, unrecognizable. Can anyone zip up the utilities folder from 10.5 and send it to me??? I am screwed until then. Better yet, put it on an FTP server and email me access? Message me and I will provide my email.

No more toying around in root... :(
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If you're going to go that route, just buy a Snow Leopard Disc for $29.99 from Apple, and do an upgrade, saving all your things. Then you'd have 10.6.8 and more features.
 
Pay money to fix a problem? Ugh... Someone's gotta help me out, any sys admins out there?
 
portcontrol7 said:
Well I don't have one dollar, let alone 30.
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I remember there was a site... somewhere online, that had all of the files from Leopard on there... I don't remember the name though.. I remember trying to find out how to restore my old MB without the SL disks and I found that.

Didn't help me but I'm sure it's what you need. Google around.
 
Seriously, I am broke. It is possible to not have any income whatsoever. I might get 25 bucks friday for fixing a friends wifi network. Looking on google for the files. Thought someone might be cool here, need to find sysadmin forums it appears.
 
portcontrol7 said:
Seriously, I am broke. It is possible to not have any income whatsoever. I might get 25 bucks friday for fixing a friends wifi network. Looking on google for the files. Thought someone might be cool here, need to find sysadmin forums it appears.
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how in the world would we send you the files? Better yet, couldn't you just download Lion (oh... well you don't have money, but still) and create a boot disk from that?

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Just download the entire install DVD and extract the Utilities folder. :confused:
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His Leopard CD doesn't work.
 
Okay you want to know how I deleted it. Studying the O'Reilly Mac in a Nutshell book. Learning key shortcuts. Loving it, having a great old time. Logged in as a sys admin (my mistake). Trying to get very quick in the finder with the shortcuts, added with command-T a shortcut to the utilities folder. Manually moved the utilities folder, and it was dropped into pictures.

Started copying, CANCELLED the copy. Deleted the copy in pictures, feeling pretty positive that the originsl utilities folder would be intact (mistake 2). Emptied trash as I am low on space. To my shock and horror I noted that everything in the utilities folder AFTER the letter A was gone!

Woops! I'll try finding utilities on a 10.6 dmg I downloaded. Tried yesterday couldn't find it. Try harder today, but doubt it. I would install 10.6 from my USB HD, but space is critically low on both Mac HD and USB drive. And I don't think it's possible to make the USB bootable without wiping out all 300 GB of crap on there.
 
portcontrol7 said:
Woops! I'll try finding utilities on a 10.6 dmg I downloaded. Tried yesterday couldn't find it. Try harder today, but doubt it. I would install 10.6 from my USB HD, but space is critically low on both Mac HD and USB drive. And I don't think it's possible to make the USB bootable without wiping out all 300 GB of crap on there.
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Shame you had to go and admit to downloading OS X illegally, otherwise we'd be able to keep helping you.. maybe be less truthful next time huh.
 
Kilamite said:
Shame you had to go and admit to downloading OS X illegally, otherwise we'd be able to keep helping you.. maybe be less truthful next time huh.
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Whoa! No worries, I'll find a way to get the utilities. Just thought someone out there with an FTP server could make it easy on me by being friendly. Not here it appears.

Cheers!
 
I will upload them to dropbox (or another method if you want), but I just want to know if Utilities for 10.6.8 is okay.
 
Thread closed since piracy and illegally downloading the software is intertwined to OP's problem.

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