Macbook Pro - Disabled Fonts! Now no finder or dock! HELP!
Hi I've got loads of fonts and I thought I'd tidy them up by disabling some of them. I've now started the Macbook Pro and after loading finder, nothing appears on the desktop. No dock, no menu, no hard drive icon!! The only thing on the screen is the spotlight icon.
Please help - what do I do?
Many thanks in advance.
Tom
Hi Tom,
Must've disabled some System Fonts, or coincidental Disk Corruption..
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1538
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2435
Might try a Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions.
Or possibly Get Pacifist...
http://www.charlessoft.com/
then extract what you need from your Install Disk or QT.DMG, then Install, if/when it asks to overwrite, go ahead.
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