Hey everyone. I have sort of a problem. I love my Mac and it has always worked for me. It could do everything I wanted it too, I had like 700$ of graphics/video cards and RAM installed. It was pimped. But now something bad happened while I was fixing up an account for my friend for while he stayed over. I really need some help with this. I cant use Apple support because it costs money, and I'm way outside of my warranty (Bought it from my friend and its OLD and I don't have the AppleCare plan.). One day, I decided to create a guest account for my friend, who doesnt know anything about macs, or the Internet for that matter. I needed to restrict him from destroying my computer (no touchy my Terminal.). So one day, I went into Parental Controls in my System Preferences pane. I opened up the guest account and changed the permissions under the "System" subcategory. I practically locked everything except for Firefox and some other programs (this was temporary for my guest account of course). Then, when I logged onto a Standard account, it was all messed up and most of the applications did not have access to the System files for scripts and things (thats my theory at least). Applications couldn't use Flash Player, because they didn't have access to the file. The printer didn't print (it thought it did at least.) StuffIt Expander couldnt run because it couldn't use the StuffIt Engine (now I cant install Flash Player). If things could be any worse, my Google wont work. Firefox broke and it cant find my accounts (Im a developer so I have accounts on Firefox). I deleted the Standard account that wasn't working. I made another and promoted it to Admin. Worked like a charm. Turned off Admin (I needed too, I don't want my bro to prank me by dropping his AppleScript pranks into my desktop and making me think its Firefox again) and it broke again. I deleted the Guest account and tried the entire process over. No dice. My account worked fine until today, where now my I'm having the same issues as the other Standard ones. So, pissed off and worried as I was I decided to resolve it and use Disk Utility. I checked Disk Permissions of my internal hard drive. No luck. It said in red letters that it failed, and would say the same if I repaired them. At last I decided to delete my free space. Its the last thing I was aware I could do. Now as you know(hopefully), Disk Utility makes a massive temporary file on your computer for some reason. It then deletes it. I had 56 GB left on my hard drive, but when it copied my hard drive to the file, My hard disk ran out of space. I needed to close the Disk Utility, but it wouldn't close so I forced quit it. Now my hard drives completely friggin full (0 bytes left)!!!! This is a very large problem and I was hoping that someone could help me with both. And by the way, thanks for reading my very long wall of text....
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Firewolf34
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Firewolf34
