Crash after cocktail, trying to reinstall osx
While using cocktail, noticed newly placed files on my hard drive, ds, etc. (discovered these were peviously invisible, made visible by cocktail) I stupidly deleted them. After a restart, got prohibitory sign. Now trying to archive and install, but getting following message, "there were errors installing the software, please try installing again." Don't want to erase hard drive, have lots of info and appls on it. I'm about 6 months from my last backup and have done a lot of work in past 6 months. Any ideas, all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
imac g4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Do you have a second Firewire capable Mac?
If you do, you can offload the most critical files using target disk mode:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
If you don't, get Prosoft Data Rescue and Alsoft Disk Warrior. Both may come useful here, as well as an external Firewire hard drive that is large enough to recover the information to from your iMac. Prosoft Data Rescue is the least invasive of your file system, and recovers the files as they are, assuming the directory is not in bad shape to an external hard drive, so that you can attempt at least an archive and install without the possibility of losing data.
If Prosoft Data Rescue is unable to recover information from the drive, then you may be forced to try Alsoft Disk Warrior to repair the directory. Note, if the hard drive is dying, neither program will be able to fix your situation, and it is possible that the hard drive was dying in the first place which started causing problems.
In the future do not use Cocktail to do anything other than the cron tasks, updating prebinding and force deleting files after you've backed them up just in case you force delete the wrong file. Its cache cleaning program can cause things to get seriously out of whack. I don't know why this happens, but it can, and I've seen this happen with all cache cleaning utilities.
A good lesson from all of this is to more frequently backup your data as my FAQ explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Good luck!
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