update gone wrong? missing my dock/applications folder + finder crashes

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  1. angelanguyenx3, Mar 12, 2011

    angelanguyenx3 macrumors newbie

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    Hi,

    I have a late 08 aluminum macbook and I recently took it to the genius bar because it wasn't loading past the grey apple screen.

    The guy reinstalled mac os x and it worked just fine, however I was missing applications like iPhoto and GarageBand so I downloaded them using the cd that came with my computer.

    I did an update and after restarting, my dock is gone and I can't open the applications folder and finder doesn't respond at all. I get the spinning wheel of death.

    I did command+s while restarting and used the fsck -fy command but it said it couldn't repair my harddrive after 3 attempts. What's going on?

    thanks
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  2. Gregg2, Mar 12, 2011

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    Of what? Or is that a reference to the statement above?
     
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  3. angelanguyenx3, Mar 12, 2011

    angelanguyenx3 thread starter macrumors newbie

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    ^Yes, i did an update for Itunes, Iphoto, etc, just a standard update.
     
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  4. Gregg2, Mar 13, 2011

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    This looks a lot like a post on another forum. ?

    You don't mention your OS version. Whatever it is, maybe you should download the Combo updater from the Apple site for your version. Reinstall and see if that fixes it.
     
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  5. MacForScience, Mar 13, 2011

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    Do you have a backup of your data?

    If yes then wipe the drive and start over. Your OS install is bad.

    If no backup do you have an external hard drive that you can clone your internal drive onto so that you can retrieve the data later?

    You can also try a Linux Live CD to grab your data onto an external drive.

    Either way I would start over by wiping the drive.

    Cheers
     
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