So I'm letting Diskwarrior 4.0 do its thing, but this problem is starting to bug me. Ever since I got my iMac (the one in my sig), every once in a while I get mysteriously disappearing folders and files that render my system useless.
First couple of times it happened, i figured that I must have done something wrong (I don't know what, but computers tend to do what u tell them to, and rarely otherwise). Maybe it was that issue of when you start applications or just using your computer while your computer is updating itself. Maybe not
I ran the hardware test from the OS X cd a few crashes ago and it didn't detect anything wrong. The first couple times, Disk Utility said that there were invalid sibling links or something to that effect. Now, after my computer has constantly frozen up forcing me to reboot with the power button, I got a black screen with flashing white text stating that the bootup process cannot locate a file in the /usr/lib/libncursesN.n folder.
Other times;
Before my computer took a big dive, I managed to get into the console and look at the logs. They told me that the OS could not find system files. This was a while ago so I cannot remember what folder specifically. But I remembered I looked in the folder and there was nothing in it!
Something that might have caused this crash would be VMware Fusion and OS X's horrible ability to sleep then wake up (just in general, not even when Fusion is running). After leaving Fusion running all night, the computer goes to sleep, and the next morning when I try to wake it up, the whole system locks. So a few forced reboots later I stopped leaving Fusion running. The lock ups continued and now have taken my whole system down leaving me at hour 22 with DiskWarrior running Step 9 "Recording any file or folder differences" constantly counting up to 5 billion and resetting/recounting.
After the next lockup/missing system files, I'm going to take it up to the genius bar and see if I could get a replacement drive or something to that effect cause there is no way I will be able to reproduce this effect when the time is needed.
Any suggestions? Ideas?
First couple of times it happened, i figured that I must have done something wrong (I don't know what, but computers tend to do what u tell them to, and rarely otherwise). Maybe it was that issue of when you start applications or just using your computer while your computer is updating itself. Maybe not
I ran the hardware test from the OS X cd a few crashes ago and it didn't detect anything wrong. The first couple times, Disk Utility said that there were invalid sibling links or something to that effect. Now, after my computer has constantly frozen up forcing me to reboot with the power button, I got a black screen with flashing white text stating that the bootup process cannot locate a file in the /usr/lib/libncursesN.n folder.
Other times;
Before my computer took a big dive, I managed to get into the console and look at the logs. They told me that the OS could not find system files. This was a while ago so I cannot remember what folder specifically. But I remembered I looked in the folder and there was nothing in it!
Something that might have caused this crash would be VMware Fusion and OS X's horrible ability to sleep then wake up (just in general, not even when Fusion is running). After leaving Fusion running all night, the computer goes to sleep, and the next morning when I try to wake it up, the whole system locks. So a few forced reboots later I stopped leaving Fusion running. The lock ups continued and now have taken my whole system down leaving me at hour 22 with DiskWarrior running Step 9 "Recording any file or folder differences" constantly counting up to 5 billion and resetting/recounting.
After the next lockup/missing system files, I'm going to take it up to the genius bar and see if I could get a replacement drive or something to that effect cause there is no way I will be able to reproduce this effect when the time is needed.
Any suggestions? Ideas?