Two Applications Not Working

[Hrothgar]

I'm not sure where to post this. I've got a 4 or 5 year old 17" macbook pro. I'm running 10.5.8. I dropped it a few days ago and the corner is dented. But everything works fine, except Evernote and VM Fusion. When I start Evernote, it opens, but I can't read any of my notes. When I try to start VM Fusion, I just get a message that the application quit unexpectedly. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both, but I get the same problem. I tried restoring them both from Time Machine. No go.

Any ideas? Should I post this in the OSX forum?

Thanks.

 

[wegster]

Just a guess, but I'd run disk utility against it, or other software to check the hard drive, it's possible the drive head crashed and caused some data issues on the drive.

 

[Hrothgar]

Interesting. It stopped the scan because the folder count didn't match. What does that mean? I guess I need the start up disk? How do I know whether the hard drive itself is damaged? And, if the hard drive were damaged, but only where these two programs were stored, shouldn't I be able to re-download them somewhere else on the drive? Everything else I've checked worked fine.

I assume that it is two much of a coincidence to think that two applications went hincky at the same time? I don't want to spend money buying support from VM Fusion.

 

[Hrothgar]

I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and that seems to have solved my problem. The applications are working, and when I ran Disk Verify, it said that my hard drive was fine.

I did have to restart the upgrade three times before it finished, but all seems well now.

 

[old-wiz]

Just a guess, but I'd run disk utility against it, or other software to check the hard drive, it's possible the drive head crashed and caused some data issues on the drive.

A head crash renders the entire disk dead.