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Dear all,
I was copying a file to the desktop and suddenly the Finder restarts, and again and again and again, just about every second. No problem, I say, so I reboot. Right when Finder first starts, it relaunches again, in a neverending loop of relaunching Finder. Thus effectively, I can't do ANYTHING with my computer. Tried fsck -f, didn't help. Am I f'ed? Thanks...pretty desperate here. I'm on a 1.5ghz PB 12", running the latest OS version. Last edited by stevegong : 2005-08-04 at 16:23. |
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Tried the other boot startup keycombos? (From our FAQ or other)
C will boot from CD (with any bootable OS X system CD... if its an Install CD you can ignore the onscreen dialog box instructions once you choose language and run disk utility from File Menu to repair permissions/disk) Shift will give you "Safe Mode" or prevent startup items from launching (including Finder windows)... Quote:
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repair disk/permissions- no problems found
tried booting in safe mode- same problem even in safe mode Thanks for the suggestion, but any other ideas? |
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25 chars of wasted space.
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Target disk mode. Replace the finder You'd have to change permissions an ownership settings probably.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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does the problem prevent you from running UNIX? you can sort the problem there.
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Ah, I couldn't solve the problem, dunno what it was, probably that POS app Adobe Bridge screwed up the system somewhere in the base level...I can think of no other possibility.
So I copied my user folder onto my external and reinstalled everything. I figured that I would still have any preference, etc, whatever, backed up, if there was something I really needed. Thanks for teh help guys. Dunno why it happened, OS X is not supposed to crash. |
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25 chars of wasted space.
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