HELP!!! Disk Utility, Network Utility and other apps gone!!!

I had an admin account with these on its desktop. Monitor, Disk Utilty, Network Utility, OnyX, etc (mostly maintenence tools). I had to erase the admin account and now I can't find them anywhere! I tried reinstalling OSX bundled software only, it installed fine and I still can find these utilites... have I erased them permanently?
Am I gonna have to do a complete OS X reinstall?

Activity Monitor not Utility Monitor. I found out the last app! I knew I did this for a reason:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glissonfam/459489845/
I'm a very visual person and I take an automated snapshot of my desktops every day or so just in case. Tech Tool Deluxe! I can reinstall from my Apple Care software. Phew...
Thanks alot guys I really appreciate all the help! All is well!

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Disk Utility and other Utilities GONE from Utilitis Folder

On my PowerBook G4 I noticed that some icons don't look right and an installer disk (for iLife 06) won't run....So I remember it's been a long time since I've run permimssions repair. I go the DiskUtility Folder and almost everything is gone The only thing in there is Bluetooth File Exchange and one or two other items. There should be about 30 apps in there...! What happened? How can I get Disk Utility back ? Is it possible all these files are actually there but the Mac's directly has just lost them? Perhaps running permissions repair would fix it -- but I can't find it!

Have you tried booting while holding down the shift key? This will force it to boot in to Safe Mode which will force the system to check the disk and to check the fonts. If you can boot this way it may give you some clues as to what is happening. My guess is since you did an archive and install which keeps all of your networks settings, preferences, and cache files intact that the issue is really with one or more of them.
As the problem seems to be caused by Safari and/or AOL I would start by trashing all t he preference files for both applications. In fact it may be a good idea to completely reset Safari which you do by going to the Safari menu and selecting "reset Safari" When you do this it will wipe out all the cache files and other files and give you a kind of new Safari.
These solutions I am proposing a fairly radical. You may lose all your bookmarks, and all or the preferences you had originally set but it may solve the issue.
Another thing you could try is to get a program like Tiger Cache Cleaner or Cocktail or YASU and use it to clean all your cache files.
If doing things like this still don't stop Safari and AOL from causing problems then I think you may have to reformat your drive and reinstall everything from scratch. Make sure you have backups of your personal files.
Good Luck!!

External HD crashed by Disk Utility and all partitions gone

I had a 320GB Seagate external hard drive with 3 NTFS partitions.
They are 200GiB, 40GiB, 38.1GiB
I tried to format the middle partition into an Mac Partition and failed. After that, all partitions are gone and when I plug the HD into a PC, the disk manager recognize the whole space of disk as free.
the Log of the Disk Utility is as follows
2009-06-17 21:38:50 +0800: Preparing to erase : “PERSONAl”
2009-06-17 21:38:50 +0800: Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record
2009-06-17 21:38:50 +0800: 1 volume will be erased
2009-06-17 21:38:50 +0800: Name : “PERSONAl”
2009-06-17 21:38:50 +0800: Size : 38.1 GB
2009-06-17 21:38:50 +0800: Filesystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2009-06-17 21:38:53 +0800: Error with volume erase Invalid argument
2009-06-17 21:38:53 +0800: Erase complete.
Then a new "disk2" appears in the Disk Utility and can't be ejected easily. There's also something like picasaUpload stuff bumping up during the short formatting.
I tried to recover it using DiskTest 6.11 but it appears to take 14 hr to scan the whole disk and will not necessarily fix the problem.
I have Anyone have suggestion on how to recover the partition? The 200GiB partition is really important for me.

NTFS partitions can not be readily altered to begin with, and when there are multiple such partitions on a drive you should not attempt to alter only one. Since Disk Utility basically can't manage an NTFS partition, when you tried to alter the 'middle partition' (which in most cases is really a 'sub partition' or secondary partition to the 'main' or primary partition) you destroyed the whole of the volume's data structure. Unless you use a data recovery service or use data recovery software yourself, your data is gone. You should not attempt to alter NTFS formatted drives from Disk Utility.

Hi, how do I manage storage? Disk Utility says "other" is taking up most of my storage but I don't know where to find "other". Please help!

Hi, how do I manage storage? Disk Utility says “other” is taking up most of my storage but I don’t know where to find “other". Please help!

For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation—not the mythical 10%, 15%, or any other percentage. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
Deleting files inside a photo or iTunes library will corrupt the library. Changes to such a library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS or GP can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper 2>&-
sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective 2>&-
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Ignore any other messages that appear in the Terminal window.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

Help needed. I have a 3TB external hard drive partitioned into 1TB's. I used one partition as backup for the main computer hard drive. But now it is greyed out as shown in the disk utility and its name changed, i dont know how that happened, i tried verif

Help needed. I have a 3TB external hard drive partitioned into 1TB's. I used one partition as backup for the main computer hard drive. But now it is greyed out as shown in the disk utility and its name changed, i dont know how that happened, i tried verifying and repairing it but had no luck. I also tried mounting and unmounting it but still no solution. Anyone to help please?

Looks bad. I would strongly advise backing up the stuff on the other two partitions as soon as possible in case the rest of the drive goes wrong.
Beyond that, Disk Utility has limited abilities to repair disks, DiskWarrior uses a different approach and might, emphasis might be more successful. It has certainly done the job for me in the past when Disk Utility could not.
See http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/

My 3 year-old macbook pro is very slow. I have run disk utility and virus scan with no improvement. The "beach ball" will spin for minutes at a time when opening, closing or changing windows. Apple Store looked at it a few months ago with no help.

my 3 year-old macbook pro is very slow. I have run disk utility and virus scan with no improvement. The "beach ball" will spin for minutes at a time when opening, closing or changing windows. Apple Store looked at it a few months ago with no help. What can I do?

Under CPU: 3.5% user; 5% system; 91% idle; 441 threads; 90 processes.
Under System: out of 2GB - 54.7MB free; 530MB wired; 603MB active; 862MB inactive; 1.95GB used.
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I need help on my MacBook Pro. Recently I've deleted another partition of my disk from the disk utility and I found out that my disk capacity wasn't get into the normal one which is 750GB. Meanwhile I installed window 7 into the partition disk.

I need help on restoring my disk capacity back to normal. I installed window 7 into the partition disk through bootcamp and I deleted it from disk utility. After I erase the partition disk,I get my capacity to 499GB but not 750GB. Do I need to reinstall my MacBook or something to do with the restoring?

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Rodney Lai wrote:
I installed window 7 into the partition disk through bootcamp and I deleted it from disk utility
You shouldn't do it. You have to erase the Windows volume with Boot Camp Assistant, so it will restore the space onto the OS X volume and that volume will have 750 GB.
As you did it with Disk Utility, you have to resize your OS X partition manually:
1. Open Disk Utility, select your hard disk at the top of the sidebar, and go to Partition tab.
2. You will see a bar with Macintosh HD. You have to click it at the bottom right corner and drag it to the end of the bar, so Macintosh HD will use all the space of the hard drive, and press Apply.
3. Close Disk Utility and your OS X partition will have 750 GB

I used the "erase free space " option in disk utility and now my imac says the disk is full and wont let me download songs. please help!

i used the "erase free space " option in disk utility and now my imac says the disk is full and wont let me download songs. please help!

You could try repairing permissions with disk utility, I don't think you will have the option to repair the drive but you could verify it.
This may help you delete the files that DU made but did not remove when erasing the free space.
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/317204-no-disk-space-after -failed-disk-utility-erase-free-space.html
When you get your SL disk it will not have the iLife applications, that would have been on the second install disk that should have been with the computer. I forget which version of iLife you will need for SL but I think it is this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iLife-Single-User-Mac/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie= UTF8&qid=1409607702&sr=8-1&keywords=apple+ilife+11
A search of the forums will confirm or deny this.
As to whether a clean install will cure your problem, i.e. partition the HDD and install I would expect it to be yes, but there are no guarantees it is an old machine.

Disk Utility and Disk Warrior error on internal hard drive....PLEASE HELP!!

After running idefrag on my internal Western Digital 120gig hard drive. The drive did not appear after I rebooted my mac. I opened Disk Utility and the drive is there but grayed out. I used "repair disk" under First Aid and it gave me this error:
Verify and Repair disk “HD 120”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Then I tried using Disk Warrior 3.0 to rebuild and it gave me this error:
error ""WD 120 GB" cannot be rebuilt. The original directory is too severely damaged. The disk was not modified (2155, 2179)".
I'm not sure if this is the right area to post this, but I need help as most of my important data is on this hard drive. What else can I do?
I am on a g4 quicksilver with 10.4.3 installed.

Sorry to hear about your problem but unless you are working with very large files such as with video editing, etc., using a defrag utility is not required with OS X and no defrag utility should be used on a hard drive without a backup first.
The current Disk Warrior version for Tiger is 3.0.3 and if Disk Warrior cannot repair the drive/directory, it must be in bad shape which was caused by using idefrag.
You can try using a data recovery utility such as Data Rescue (Prosoft Engineering) which includes a free trial version.

Computer has started locking up 3-4 times a day when doing normal browsing functions. I've runb disk utility and done soft boots but it does't help.s

Computer has started locking up on a regular basis (several times a day) when doing normal internet browsing. I've gone through disk utility and safe start sequences but I see no improvement.

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Time Machine, Disk Utility, and clearing out corrupted snapshots

Hi, all. I've been having some troubling issues with Time Machine and could use your collective insight.
I have a 500GiB external USB2 disk that I've been using for Time Machine since December (the oldest snapshot in Backups.backupdb is named 2007-12-13-222250). Everything worked fine until sometime in late January, when Time Machine decided to ax 2/3 of my Applications directory. Time Machine's logging is terse, so I wasn't able to determine what caused the corruption. The fact that this error wasn't caught and flagged by Time Machine bothers me.
Especially because I discovered this in the process of needing to recover from a crash on my laptop's hard drive -- I had to roll back to a previous, complete snapshot to get all my applications back.
After that I had to engage in some jiggery-pokery to get Time Machine to re-snapshot everything, but things proceeded normally until I received my new copy of DiskWarrior 4.1 last night (although DiskWarrior is an innocent bystander here). I tried to use DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory on the Time Machine disk, but it failed before trying to write anything.
(For those who care: after some back and forth with Alsoft tech support, we determined this was likely because my Time Machine volume has 6.2GB of catalog data, and DiskWarrior works by rebuilding the directory in memory, so it has to be able to fit the whole catalog into virtual memory.)
I was a little paranoid that something might be wrong with the disk after that, so I fired up Disk Utility and told it to repair the disk. It churned for about 6 hours and repaired an extraordinarily large number of hardlink reference count errors, but completed by claiming that the disk had been repaired.
When I next told Time Machine to run, instead of copying over a couple GB of data like it usually does, it started copying 38GB! ***? I took a look at the previous Time Machine snapshots, and discovered that Disk Utility had totally corrupted every snapshot I'd made since last month's fandango. Most of the root-level directories in the snapshots now look like this:
$ ls -al /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-025640/Euphrosyne/
total 128
drwxrwxr-t@ 16 root admin 1020 Feb 15 00:17 ./
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root ogd 204 Mar 13 02:56 ../
-r--r--r--@ 9151 root 20051003 0 Feb 11 23:13 .DRM_Data
-r--r--r--@ 50574 root 20051004 0 Feb 11 23:13 .DS_Store
-r--r--r--@ 9154 root 20051006 0 Feb 11 23:13 .SymAVQSFile
-r--r--r--@ 9155 root 20051007 0 Feb 11 23:13 .VolumeIcon.icns.candybarbackup
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 ogd admin 68 Feb 29 2004 .buildinstaller1.tmp/
-r--r--r--@ 9149 root 20051001 0 Feb 11 23:13 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
-r--r--r--@ 9150 root 20051002 0 Feb 11 23:13 .com.apple.timemachine.supported (from old Mac)
-r--r--r--@ 9153 root 20051005 0 Feb 11 23:13 .redethist
-r--r--r--@ 58730 root 20051009 0 Feb 11 23:13 Applications
-r--r--r--@ 37526 root 20051012 0 Feb 11 23:13 Desktop Folder
-r--r--r--@ 13328 root 20051013 0 Feb 11 23:13 Developer
-r--r--r--@ 64211 root wheel 0 Feb 11 23:13 Library
-r--r--r--@ 49886 root 20051080 0 Feb 11 23:13 Network
-r--r--r--@ 5643 root 20051120 0 Feb 11 23:13 System
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root ogd 60 Mar 13 02:56 User Guides And Information@ -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root admin 204 Dec 6 02:07 Users/
-r--r--r--@ 2554 root wheel 0 Feb 11 23:13 Volumes
-r--r--r--@ 37448 root 20051010 0 Feb 11 23:13 bin
-r--r--r--@ 37525 root 20051011 0 Feb 11 23:13 cores
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root ogd 11 Mar 13 02:56 etc@ -> private/etc
-r--r--r--@ 26309 root 20051078 0 Feb 11 23:13 mach_kernel
-r--r--r--@ 26310 root 20051079 0 Feb 11 23:13 mach_kernel.ctfsys
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root ogd 12 Mar 13 02:56 opt@ -> /private/opt
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 root wheel 272 Dec 6 02:31 private/
-r--r--r--@ 52664 root 20051119 0 Feb 11 23:13 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root ogd 11 Mar 13 02:56 tmp@ -> private/tmp
-r--r--r--@ 41668 root 20052660 0 Feb 11 23:13 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root ogd 11 Mar 13 02:56 var@ -> private/var
That is clearly, completely wrong, and it alarms me that Disk Utility could cause so much damage to a Time Machine volume.
Since I also use SuperDuper! to regularly clone this disk, it's not as big a nightmare as it could be, but this means that I'm going to have to clear out every snapshot for the last month by hand, both because I obviously can't trust them anymore, and because I keep getting messages like this in the logs:
2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.com.apple.timemachine.supported to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.com.apple.timemachine.supported (from old Mac) to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.DRM_Data to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.DS_Store to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.redethist to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.SymAVQSFile to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.VolumeIcon.icns.candybarbackup to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
I'd like to keep the old snapshots if I can. What's likely to happen if I just go and clear out the b0rked backup sessions by hand?
(Hmm... it appears yes, because I just deleted them all and the disk didn't recover the freed space.)
Here's the important question: has anyone else had issues using Disk Utility on a Time Machine volume, and does anyone at Apple have any plans to add integrity checking to Time Machine? As it stands, I don't really feel like I can trust it in its present form, as convenient as it is...

I have trouble with disk utility on my new (1 TB Lacie) as well as on my old (500 GB WD) drive. After doing a backup, du tells me a never ending list of errors like
HasFolderCount flag needs to be set (id = 599567)
(it should be 0x10 instead of 0)
Everything was O.K. before doing the backup; so is the disk to be backupped, according to du.
Up to now, no other problem occurred, but I´d like to clear this issue before my trust in time machine is restored.

I did disk utility, and verify disk and it asks to repair the disk using dvd installer...but when i insert the dvd- restart- hold c, it keep ejecting and can't read the dvd....i tried with my friends dvd too, but still fail...mac osx v10.6.7

someone pls help me

Well there is Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck witch includes step by step instructions to run disk repair without the install disk.
But before doing that, it's a good idea to backup. You may want to troubleshooting your superdrive / disk before hand. if I disk repair fails you may need the disk working to re-install the OS.
Dose the computer read any DVDs? if no, you may want to use Troubleshooting the slot load optical disc drive.

Leopard Disk Utility and Input/Output error messages.

This post is describing a problem I had and how I managed to fix it. When I was researching the Input/Output error message I was getting a couple of people had mentioned this fix on the apple discussion boards, so I thought I would add my fix to support them. (Isn't google fab!) I've no idea if this is the right place for this so please bear with me.
Okay a bit of background:- over christmas we treated ourselves to leopard and as my laptop is now three years old I decided to do a complete reformat and installation. I used my 60GB iPod as an external harddrive and backed everything up. Installed Leopard no probs and was a very happy bunny.
The problem:- I then wanted to remove everything off my iPod. So I thought "I know I'll use Disk Utility".... I tried it with the 'default' setting and got an Input/Output error message straight away (irrespective of whether I did it as an extended journal or not.) When I tried it with the Zero Out option (can't remember exactly what it's called) it came up with the Input/Output error message right at the very end. Argh! iTunes and Finder no longer recognised it, but Disk Utility did.
My research:- After using google I saw some guys on here talking about formatting proper external harddrives using leopards disk utility and they were getting the same messages as me. It turns out it is a fault with Leopards Disk Utility. So I did what the guys recommended.
The solution:- (Thank god I had tiger!) I put in my tiger installation disk, clicked 'install tiger' and restarted the laptop. I clicked my my language, but then rather than going through the actual installation process I went to the top menu bars and chose Disk Utility (using tiger's disk one rather than my laptop's leopard one.) And erased the iPod there. Now when I quit the installation and opened my laptop up properly it worked, both iTunes and finder could see it!!! (I just had to restore my ipod in itunes - and now I'm happily transferring all my music back!)
I hope this helps someone in the same position as me!

I took it to work to use my Windows PC to try and format the drive, but got the same problem. I figured either the drive (it's a 2.5" that used to be inside my AlBook) or the external housing it lives is was faulty. Only way I could test without spending more money is by putting the 2.5" drive inside my powerbook, and booting the (Ti) powerbook from a bootable firewire ipod. I successfully booted from the ipod, and had the same problem with the now internal drive: only visible in disk utility, any attempt to erase fails. Also, I plugged the small 10 GB drive that WAS in the TiBook (but which I removed to put the other, problematic drive in) into the external housing, and it connected to other machines just fine.
Turns out the problem is the hard drive itself.
So now my question becomes: If disk utility can see the hard disk when it is connected (I have it back in the external enclosure now), but gives "input/output error" messages when I try to erase/format it, is there any way I can salvage this drive? It's an 80 GB drive, and I was looking forward to making it my internal TiBook drive (replacing the old 10 GB drive that's in there now).

Erased free space in Disk Utility, and after it finished it kept a DMG there.

I erased free space in Disk Utility, and after it finished it kept a DMG there called "DeveloperDiskImage.dmg", why is it left behind? can it be deleted? how? if erasing free space is supposed to help get memory and remove all the files truly, it shouldnt be creating anything, it created a DMG at the start, but it went away, after a hour and a half it made the DeveloperDiskImage, i went to eat dinner and when i came back it was done but that was left.

Delete it. Erasing the free space isn't supposed to free up any space; it's there in case someone deleted a file insecurely when they meant to securely delete it.
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Will try installing OS X 10.5.1 again from the downkoad that you recommended. Won't be able to do this untill after the New Year but I'll let you know if this helped. I had another problem after he 10.5.1 upgrade and that was that the Security update 2007-009 also refused to install. Could this be related too the problems with Disk utility and the permissions problems.

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