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beerglass007

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May 13, 2008
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I wanted to remove Itunes 8.2 and ran the following command

sudo rm -rf
/Applications/iTunes.app

I don't know whats happened but alot of my apps started to fail.
So I rebooted my Mac and now only get a flashing folder and no boot.

Whats the process to rebuild/fix the machine and keep my iphoto libary?

Many Thanks
 
First of all, why were you using rm to remove an application? I bet you typed

sudo rm -rf / Applications/iTunes.app

which means you actually deleted your home folder. If your machine won't boot, the process of restoring your computer is to re-install Leopard and never use sudo rm ever again.
 
help

Ok I see the errors of my way

But how can I get my photos off the HDD which were in Iphoto ?

Any good ideas please ?

Thanks
 
beerglass007 said:
Ok I see the errors of my way

But how can I get my photos off the HDD which were in Iphoto ?

Any good ideas please ?

Thanks
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Also I would advise you stop using the computer because the more you use it, the more likely those deleted files will get overwritten.
 
Thanks

Thanks for all the help.

I've managed to get the drive working and got all my Itunes and Iphoto data off.

Over 20 years working in the IT industry and I do a school boy error like that.

Will teach me I guess hahahhahah

Thanks all
 
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