Need help recovering from a crash

Hello, all
My macbook has stopped booting. It began when I saw a message reporting shortage of free space on the hdd. I checked and there was as low as 6Gb of free space, and the mdwork process was eating lots of CPU time. I found an enormously huge label file weighting 15Gb and moved it into Trash bin, which took several minutes.
But when I started emptying the Trash bin the system became very slow. Some time later, the Trash bin still being emptied, I found out that all the labels on the Desktop pointed to my Desktop directory, not to specific files in the Applications directory, and didn't work, and starting programms from the Dock didn't make them visible otherwise than by a highlighted dock icon. I couldn't switch to them using Cmd-Tab either because the list was showing only Finder.
Dragging a file onto the Desktop produced a message that I could do it but didn't have permissions to see the result.
After about ten minutes there had been no progress. Judging by the buzz of the fan the CPU was heavily loaded, the Trash bin was still being emptied. I tried force-quitiing the processes in order to restart, but it said it failed to quit the TextEdit application that was by the time open. So nothing left for me to do but to turn the Macbook off using the Power button.
It never started up well again, always stopping at the gray screen with a circular activity indicator on it moving and the Fan whining loudly. I have tried booting in Safe mode and resetting the NVRAM, but in vain.
Could you please help me get it back to work?
Thanks in advance,
Anton

i was wondering what you meant with "label file". an alias.
but it's a bit strange. the "send registration" alias points to a document called Send Registration.setup which in turn is executed by Setup Assistent.app. the alias and the document are 4KB in size each. the app about 45MB. it's just a simple app, that asks for your personal data, like name, adresse, e-mail and so on, to register them with apple, if you choose to do so. no way that it suddenly mutates to 15GB.
and indeed, deleting the alias would have no effect on the system. so i strongly assume you've deleted something else accidentally.
fire wire target mode. yes.
start the macbook pro. connect it via fire wire cable to your macbook. then boot the macbook while holding down the "T" key. the macbook should now show a big fire wire drive icon on it's grey bootscreen. on the macbook pro the internal drive of your macbook will now show up as a mounted firewire drive like an external hard drive. you can then access it from the macbook pro to copy your data from it onto the macbook pro or another external harddrive connected to it.
after that you can dismount the drive and power your macbook down. insert the install dvd, that came with the macbook and hold "C" key while booting it up again. it should now boot from the dvd and open the os x installer. select your language and reinstall the system.

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1. Make sure Time Machine is working
2. Update your Vault regularly onto an external hard disk

I seem to recall that it was a recommended approach to stop huge Time Machine updates every time you touched Aperture.
Time machine now makes incremental backups of the Aperture Library - unless the library is in use by Aperture while Time Machine is running. It suffices to quit Aperture before backing up. That is what I do on my MBP.
Something else to note for the record: when you do a recovery and reinstall from Time Machine, Aperture perceives your reconstructed boot volume as a new volume, even though it has the same name and everything.
Exactly, but thankfully reconnecting is easy.
To restore a system I usually restore from a bootable clone. I regularly clone the system as a secondary backup.
Cheers
Léonie

Need help recovering data from an Xsan volume

Ok, let me preface this by saying that I've never used Xsan, so I'm not sure if I'm using the terminology correctly. Feel free to correct me or point me in the right direction so that I may provide better clarification.
I've got a new client who has about 5 tb of data locked up in a Netgear ReadyNAS that was set up as an Xsan device on a Mac Pro Server running Lion Server 10.7.4. This was set up by a previous IT services company, and we were preparing to move all of their data to a regular RAID NAS device (there is no use for an Xsan in this office environment) and initiate backup solutions. However, several days ago, the server's boot volume crashed fatally and could not be recovered. There was no backup of the boot volume, so we had to start again from scratch. Since reinstalling Lion Server on the Mac Pro, we have been unable to retrieve the data off of the Netgear ReadyNAS.
There is no backup of the data on the drive, so we're treating this with kid-golves as far as our approach. So far we've tired connectng to the NAS, but are only seeing a couple of shares that don't appear to hold any data. We've been on the phone with Apple's Enterprise Support Group, and been escalated up to the point of having to pay for higher-end supporty. At that point, we phoned Netgear Support to see what they could offer. They're kindly looking into it over the weekend by logging in remotely, but I'm here to ask if there's anyone here who might have experience with a smilar siuation.
I've been really hesitant to try and connect to the drive with Xsan Admin, as I want to ensure that nothing gets deleted. Does anyone have a suggestion as to something we might try to get at this data? It seems like it would be a simple matter of connecting to the drive, but that's proving to not be the case.

I read this and began to shake. You should track down the solution provider and choke them.
I hate to be the one to tell you, but based on your post, the data is likely lost forever and this is for many reasons.
First, you do not describe the presence of a meta data backup. This is mistake number 1 of whoever set this solution up. Deploying an Xsan with a single controller is foolish at best, negligent at worst. Without it, you have no replication of the volume config information. Are there SAN clients in this scendario or was there just the controller and folders reshared over file services?
Next, you mention the boot volume failed with no backup. Based on this description, it sounds like the boot volume was not a mirror boot so all data was on one platter. The failure of that platter means the failure of everything. Your only recourse here is to send the drive out to a drive recovery service or attempt a controller board swap (fingers crossed it is just the controller that failed). With some luck they can recover enough of the drive to allow you to sticth this together. This is mistake number 2.
Next, the files that you REALLY need, /Library/FileSystems/Xsan/*, were never backed up. With the loss of the boot volume, these files are now not available. If the Xsan config files were present you could, in theory, stitch together a new controller and resurrect that volume.
And finally, you do not describe a backup solution for the San volume. Cry....
I am sorry for your loss. If there are more details or the conditions are better than you describe, reply. Otherwise, bite the bullet and get that drive out to a data recovery service and pray.

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