There is not really a preferred order, just ones that are easier than
others.
First run a program like MacJanitor if you turn your Mac off every
night or let it go to sleep (OS-X has built in maintenance scripts that
really do need to run periodically).
Try repairing permissions, etc. second.
Third, if you have file-journaling turned on, try a restore from it. OR
if you don't, try booting into single user mode ("safe mode" if you
have 10.2) and running fsck.
After that, it is time to try things like Tech Tool Pro X and Disk
Warrior.
Last but not least, data back up, drive wipe and re-install.
Jerry
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 08:17 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied. Now to the second part of my question: Is
> there a preferred order for running fsck and repairing preferences with
> disk utility? Ie., should one of them be done before the other?
>
> Thursday, March 6, 20033:46 AMJim/Marcia
> Bennettbennettsmay29 at earthlink.net
>
>> Harry,
>>
>> Regarding your question the other day about Safe Mode:
>>
>> I'm certainly no expert, but I can quote from Pogue's "Mac OS X: The
>> Missing
>> Manual"
>>
>> "There's no real equivalent to Safe Mode [a Windows way of
>> booting] on
>> the Mac. You can press the Shift key during startup to suppress the
>> loading
>> of certain software libraries , but that still doesn't produce a
>> massively
>> stripped-down machine like Safe Mode does."
>>
>> So I'm not sure what the earlier contributer who mentioned Safe Mode
>> for OS
>> X was referring to.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>> From: "Harry Jacobson-Beyer" <harryjb at bellsouth.net>
>>> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:56:14 -0500
>>> To: Macusergroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu>
>>> Subject: MacGroup: curious
>>>
>>> I'm curious. In the past month or so I have sent two messages to the
>>> group asking questions and have not had one reply to either
>>> question. I
>>> get my message back and I get messages other people send and I get
>>> responses to those messages.
>>>
>>> Are my messages getting through to the rest of you?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Harry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>>> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>>
>>
>>
>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
