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20021112 Tuesday November 12, 2002

Mini-Me is Hosed I tried Kurt's suggestion (booting into OS 9) to get rid of the phantom file in my Trash. I couldn't see a Trash (.Trash) folder in /Users/matt, so I tried clicking on and using the iClean app that was sitting on my desktop. I guess I installed it at some point. Anyway, it fixed a bunch of my aliases, cleaned up my internet cache and such. When I rebooted into OS X, I get the Mac equivalent of the BSOD. It says You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button. I tried using the Disk Utility on Jaguar Disc 1 with no luck (errors abound when trying to repair the disk), and I am unable to re-install OS X because there is no destination drive to install to. So in other words, I've completely f****ed up my Mac again - with little hope for fixing it. I thought this was supposed to be the "friendly OS?"

This is what usually happens when I spend all day on the computer goofing off - I shoulda done some actual work.

Update: I found the problem is a good ol' Kernel Panic. I'll be testing out Apple's tech support folks tomorrow. Posted in Mac OS X at Nov 12 2002, 03:18:27 PM MST 3 Comments

Comments:

You know this experience is a perfect candidate for a "switch" movie :-)

Posted by dsuspense on November 12, 2002 at 06:48 PM MST #

My guess is that you have hard drive corruption going on in addition to your kernal panic problem. Usually when you get those orphaned folders it is because something with the file system is messed up. Do you have a separate partition with OS X on it or is is on the same partition as OS 9? I really hope that you can get your ibook working again. OS X is really great to work with. I have had zero trouble with mine, but then again I am used to Apple stuff and basic UNIX commands.

Posted by Kurt on November 13, 2002 at 05:09 AM MST #

tks

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