My application folder got deleted need to replace

I DELETED MY APPLICATION FOLDER HOW CAN I GET IT BACK

If you have truly deleted your Applications folder, rather than just the icon from the dock, you will need to reinstall your applications — each and every one of them. However, if you're posting from your computer, I'd say you haven't really deleted the Applications folder, or you wouldn't have been able to access this forum. If you're posting from a different source, of course, all bets are off.
If you do need to re-create your Applications folder, do you have a backup? If so, just restore to your hard drive from that.
To reinstall your applications without a backup, if that is necessary, it would be easiest to start by reinstalling your OS; that will give you the built-in applications. Be sure to apply all updates, too. After that, you will need to reinstall all third-party apps, either by means of CDs or DVDs that they may be stored on, or by means of downloads from the internet.

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Missing applications folder, gone hidden & need help!

This is the second time this has happened to me and someone did tell me how to fix this but I have since forgotten. I'm hoping someone here can remind me.
I've got an eMac running 10.4.10 and when I open the Finder window, the applications folder is no longer there, where it should be and slowly my Mac is turning haywire. Apparently it has gone "hidden" and I don't know how to un-hide it. If someone could please let me know how to fix this, that would be great. And if someone knows why this has happened to me more than once so I can avoid it in the future, that would be great too.
eMac Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Your startup drive should be the drive listed on your Desktop. If you never renamed it, then it is probably named "Macintosh HD" which is the default. You can also go to the Apple menu item and select "About This Mac" and just above the More Info button there should be the entry
Startup Disk Nameofdisk
You would use the name shown in the path. So launch Script Editor and paste this in:
tell application "System Events"
set visible of folder "Macintosh HD:Applications" to true
end tell
Be sure to use the name of your startup drive where "Macintosh HD" is in the script above, if the name is something else (mine for instance is Noobix). Then click the Compile button in the Script Editor toolbar, to make sure there aren't any errors, and then the Run button. If the script runs without reporting an error, you will need to log out and back in, or restart the Finder for the change to be recognized.
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How can I get my applications they got deleted when I updated

How can I get applications back I updated my phone with iTunes & all my applications got deleted how can I get them back help

Download Past Purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Log into iTunes using the account the Purchase was made with... Click on Buy... and a notice will come up saying you already have it... do you wish to download it again... Click Yes...

All Photos from Previous Folder Got Deleted!

I had this folder created yesterday with more than 100 photos in it, all photos were imported from my camera. Then later today, I imported another bunch of photos, this time from my flash disk. After they got imported, I tried to Zoom in one of the pics using the space bar forgot that all pics were selected in that folder after imported. iphoto was frozen for a while (colorful wheel was on). then i forced quit iphoto because of that. when i restarted iphoto, the previous folder that i imported yesterday from my camera was gone!! it's nowhere to be found, not in the trash can, not in iphoto, not in the flash disk (i was hoping it got magically switched), and not in my camera too because i already deleted them. i even restarted my computer to see if it was a glitch but it's not! ='{ the entire folder worth of 4 days photos of my vacation is gone!
i tried to seek for the backup but it brought me to time machine that apparently i hadn't had it set up! :{
help! can i retrieve my -accidentally- deleted photos again?

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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BIG problem! System's folder got deleted. Please help.

Hi guys..
I have a quite big problem here. I accidently delete my system's folder out of the macintosh HD. I was going to delete a folder right beside it but it appears that i delete the wrong one. I know, pretty stupid eh. Symptoms are: cannot login to the OS when the computers starts; flashing of "prohibitory sign" during the startup constantly for about a minute and booted up on windows (i have windows installed in my MBP).
I've read so many different apple's articles about this. There is one about archive and install (can be found here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120 ). It told me to reInstall the OS. So i followed these steps and stopped when i can't select Preserve users and network settings. I assumed that "preserve users and network" is the option that will keep my files rite? The reason im doing this is because I dont want lose all my files inside. There are so many songs and important files inside and I can't think whats going to happen if I lose all that files.
Any of you guys have suggestion or solution to this riddle? Help is greatly appreciated. Thx a for the attention.

Archive and Install will save the old system in a Previous System Folder. It does not delete anything. However, it will not preserve anything that was in your deleted System folder because you deleted it.
A question is how did you empty the Trash? The System folder cannot be deleted unless you authenticate which means you can't delete it 'accidentally.' It's possible the folder is still in the Trash. If that be the case simply open a Finder window on the Trash and drag the System folder back to it's proper location. Of course to do this you will have to be able to start up the computer. If you have a backup system on an external Firewire drive that would do just fine. If not, then you could try to get access to another Mac that supports Firewire. You can then connect the two via Firewire cable. Then boot your computer into Target Disk Mode, then boot the other computer normally. You computer's hard drive will appear on the other computer's Desktop. You can then gain access to the Trash to restore the System folder, assuming you haven't actually emptied the Trash.

I seem to have created an "alias" applications folder and am now unable to add apps I have purchased. How can I restore the original Applications folder and delete the "alias" folder? Thank you

This is the message I receive when I'm trying to add a new app

Solution found on a previous thread. Sorry!
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10463360#10463360

Can't delete application folder?

To Whom It May Concern,
Last night, I installed a software just to try it out, but it was having problems running under 10.2.8, so I decided to uninstall it and load the beta instead. I loaded the beta version, but it was not performing well either. I decided to delete the folder, but I couldn't. It said, "This operation could not be completed because this item is owned by root." Please help! The computer I'm using is an iMace flat panel, superdrive, 512Mb, G4 800Mhz, 60 Gig drive. Also, I can't seem to verify, or repair permissions using Disk Utility.
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Hello Arnold,
Of course we are speaking here of the software you just tried, not the whole "Applications" folder:
Force-deleting files or folders that refuse to let you do it as usual, can be done using such utility as TinkerTool System for example (go to section Files > Force Delete).
The best is to get rid of every hidden files it could have left on your hard drive in some cases. Use the Finder's Find (⌘F) feature to find them (search for visible AND invisible files) and drag them to the Trash, directly from the Search Results window.
If you use Tiger, Find (⌘F) won't find them all: you'll have to use EasyFind.
Delete only the files that really belong to your trial software: be careful as sometimes names are close, but may belong to your system...
(It would be easier to simply name which software was it that refused to be deleted?)
Good luck!
Axl

Photos got deleted before backup

hi
i got a new iPhone 6 pretty exited , i had clicked atleast 150 pics but before taking the back up the photos got deleted i asked my bro to take a back up and then restore but he did not take a back up and he hit restore and all the pics got deleted,and we replaced by my old iPhone 4 pics, have tried 3rd party software no luck
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shekar

Not if it was restored. A restore wipes the device clean to Factory Settings, so everything is erased.
I would highly recommend that, going forward, you import your photos to a computer on a regular basis:
PHOTO IMPORT IOS TO MAC/PC
IMPORTING PHOTOS - WINDOWS/MAC
This does not require a Wifi Connection - just a USB cable and a computer that you can back up to. This is the only way to keep photos safe. Photo Stream is temporary, and Backups are just that - backups. The olderst one gets overridden with the most current backup every three backups, so if you delete photos, or move them somewhere else, you won't be able to retrieve them from an old backup - it wouldn't be there anymore.
Sorry,
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Trashed Application Folder. How do you reinstall just applications?

Help,
Anyone know how to reinstall just the applications for Tiger?
Some how my application folder got trashed and emptied.
Thanks
Mark
PowerBook 1.5ghz Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Help,
Anyone know how to reinstall just the applications
for Tiger?
Some how my application folder got trashed and
emptied.
Thanks
Mark
PowerBook 1.5ghz
Mac OS X (10.4.2)
Again,
Somehow I trashed all my application folders from my PowerBook 1.5ghz with a 80 g HD.
And yes I emptied the trash. It was just all the contents from the application folder.
Nothing worse than clicking on all of your Dock items and getting ? over the icon.
The computer works on its operating system Tiger 10.4.2 now.
Computer came with the original Panther Software pre installed but the computer came from Apple, packaged with Tiger 10.4 upgrade, which I installed.
I have tried reinstalling Applications from the original OEM Software and restore disk from both Panther and Tiger and did not have any luck.
I tried just installing the Applications only and not the operating system.
Besides reinstalling all the Application programs that I have; if that works.
I may have to consider doing a clean install ?
As you know, it's about how much TIME one of these solutions or yours, will take.
I also want a clean running laptop !
So there is the issue of a clean install with all the time with the online updates, etc., etc., ...
Versus being able to reinstall just the Application Files Only.
Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

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It is better to download a new copy of the Firefox program from:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Trash the current Firefox application to do a clean reinstall.
Install the new version that you have downloaded.
(your profile data is stored elsewhere in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder], so you won't lose bookmarks or other personal data).
thank you
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My Applications folder shows empty. How do I restore it ?

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You started to copy, not move, the Applications folder. Delete the copy. Drag the original to the right side of the Dock, next to the Trash icon (not into the Trash.)

Acrobat Pro 9 for mac won't launch, reloaded from disk when hard drive needed to be replace. It's in applications folder but there is an X on the Acrobat Reinstall icon. What should I do.

Acrobat Pro 9 for mac won't launch, reloaded from disk when hard drive needed to be replace. It's in applications folder but there is an X on the Acrobat Reinstall icon. What should I do.

Hi Janice,
What version of Mac OS are you using?
Adobe does not recommend migrating the software from one disk to the other.
Please run the setup file for Acrobat and reinstall the software. You might want to delete the existing version of Acrobat installed before reinstalling it.
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Rave

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There are 3 files in my application folder on my imac called SWTFU_1.2.002.dmgpart.partial and they take up around 11 GB of space. Are these files needed? Should I delete them?

Hello Georgia,
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Need to Reinstall Cleanup Application in Lenovo P70 as got delete by mistake

Hi Everyone, Please could anyone suggest, I need to Reinstall Cleanup Application in Lenovo P70 as got delete by mistake. Your help will be highly appreciated

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Sudheer,
Try this...
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DATA: command(255) TYPE c,
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endif.
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DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 0,
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