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Totally messed up my OS X 10.2.4

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totally_fly

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Somehow, I managed to completely massacre my OS. Click and drag (for Icons, text, the dock, pictures.. ANYTHING.. click and drag) does not work... also, icons of programs I download are not showing up.. they are simply Folder icons

i think these problems happened after I ran these commands.

I am ultimately annoyed as much of what I do is now extremely limited...

can anyone whos a bit more UNIX aware help me find out what i've done??

I would very much appreciate any help!!
 
haha, I wouldn't worry about those commands, that's an april fools site from last year.

Seriously though, I've had the problems you're discussing several times, usually running Repair Permissions clears up the drag/drop problems, and clearing the caches fixes up the folder icons. I recommend Cocktail, an easy freeware app that'll automate that kind of thing.
 
well I tried that.. and no luck

I still have the no icons and the drag and drop issue (even after a restart)

now I feel like an idiot cuz of the aprils fools joke (those names were suspicious: CocoaFinder.. RunSlowly!!!) but im still pretty annoyed at the drag and drop.. i dunno why but im gonna trash all my prefs and start over.. see if that helps at all.. and if that doesnt work.. im probly gonna break down and cry :mad:

edit: trashing prefs didnt help, and just to be clear, click and drag works NOWHERE, not the dock, not in Safari, not in the finder, not in word, not in iTunes.. NOWHERE!!! AHH!!!! This is like living with a Borland Operating System!!!
 
Originally posted by totally_fly
repairing permissions how?
Click to expand...

When you're booted up from the CD, with the installer open, there's a menu option (I think it's on the "Installer" menu) that says Open Disk Utility...select that, then select the First Aid tab in the Disk Utility window...then click Repair Disk Permissions.

This drag n drop problem happened to me when I first got my iMac with 10.2.3...I installed the 10.2.4 update and everything worked again...you could try downloading the 10.2.4 update here, and installing it again...see if that works.

By the way...are you using an Apple mouse, or a third party mouse? It probably doesn't matter, but you may as well make sure you're using the basic Apple mouse that came with the computer.

--Fred
 
ok well i did reboot and i found the Repair Permissions.. but it was greyed out... so i did repair disk and it didnt fix the two errors it found.. and no im using a 3rd party mouse.. ahhh

btw.. the icons thing is fixed.. but not the click n drag
 
Reinstall OSX from the CD, But do not erase the drive or do a clean install. If that still doesn't work, try a clean install (doesn't erase the drive, just replaces the "System" folder.

Sorry Dude.

TEG
 
A Clean Install fixed the problems... working perfectly now.. and feels a lot snappier! I think im gonna stay off VT for a while :)

thanx guys
 
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