Please Help - Accidentally Deleted Private Folder

[MimUK]

Please could someone help.
I have accidentally deleted the Private folder in the root of the HD
Now OSX will not boot.

The folder is still sitting in my Trash folder and I would like from the Boot CD Terminal to copy back from the trash to the Macintosh HD/ location

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mim

 

[melchior]

Please could someone help.
I have accidentally deleted the Private folder in the root of the HD
Now OSX will not boot.

The folder is still sitting in my Trash folder and I would like from the Boot CD Terminal to copy back from the trash to the Macintosh HD/ location

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mim

so why don't you do exactly as suggested, boot from install cd, use terminal, mount drive and move the folder. should boot without a problem. permissions may likely be bunk though, so you can issue a sudo diskutil repairPermissions / if things are still not happy.

good luck.

i guess this is the reason os x makes system folders hidden.

 

[Nermal]

I think the command you need is:

mv /Users/you/.Trash/private /

 

[MimUK]

Sorry for my ignorance.
Please could you explain how I mount the image from the terminal and copy back to the root folder.
I am not sure of the syntax

Cheers

 

[MimUK]

I think the command you need is:

mv /Users/you/.Trash/private /

Thanks, will give it a try

Mim

 

[MimUK]

I think the command you need is:

mv /Users/you/.Trash/private /

I get no such file or directory if I follow the code above

 

[Ivan P]

I get no such file or directory if I follow the code above

Are you making sure to replace 'you' with the name of your own Home folder?

 

[MimUK]

Are you making sure to replace 'you' with the name of your own Home folder?

Yes

 

[Ivan P]

EDIT: nvmd.

 

[MimUK]

I have managed to terminal into the .Trash folder and i can see the private folder in there

Sean

 

[melchior]

I have managed to terminal into the .Trash folder and i can see the private folder in there

Sean

if you have cd'd into the trash folder, you can do

mv ./private /

 

[MimUK]

if you have cd'd into the trash folder, you can do

mv ./private /

OK, now I have override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel for /private? y/n [n]

Should I override or not?
Many thanks

 

[MimUK]

If I select Y
I get rename ./private to /private: read-only file system

 

[melchior]

If I select Y
I get rename ./private to /private: read-only file system

it's a permissions issue. i would have thought the installer terminal is in single user mode, but obviously not.

try

sudo mv ./private /

if it asks for a password, just press enter. i can only assume that the root user has no password assigned...

it's possible that the mounted drive is in read-only mode, though again, this seems unlikely. try to see if you can create a file.

cd /Users/yournamehere/

touch yada.txt

ls yada.txt

this would be a bucket-load easier if you had another mac...