update gone wrong? missing my dock/applications folder + finder crashes

nimrod409 · nimrod409 #1 (**permalink**)

03-12-2011, 07:02 PM

Hi,

I have a late 08 aluminum macbook and I recently took it to the genius bar because it wasn't loading past the grey apple screen.

The guy reinstalled mac os x and it worked just fine, however I was missing applications like iPhoto and GarageBand so I downloaded them using the cd that came with my computer.

I did an update and after restarting, my dock is gone and I can't open the applications folder and finder doesn't respond at all. I get the spinning wheel of death.

I did command+s while restarting and used the fsck -fy command but it said it couldn't repair my harddrive after 3 attempts. What's going on?

thanks
x

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

03-12-2011, 07:48 PM

Take it back to the Apple store and have them look at it again. It appears that you have a bad hard drive. It seems reinstalling OS X was only a band aid and not the cure.

nimrod409 · nimrod409 #3 (**permalink**)

03-12-2011, 08:17 PM

Strange, they were able to fix it without wiping out my harddrive and ran a test on it. It's supposed to be working fine :/

toMACsh · toMACsh #4 (**permalink**)

03-13-2011, 02:27 PM

It's apparently an intermittent problem. Did you get AppleCare? (It would still be good til late '11.)

chscag #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,384 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	03-12-2011, 07:48 PM Take it back to the Apple store and have them look at it again. It appears that you have a bad hard drive. It seems reinstalling OS X was only a band aid and not the cure. Community Guidelines
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nimrod409 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 12, 2011 Posts: 2	03-12-2011, 07:02 PM Hi, I have a late 08 aluminum macbook and I recently took it to the genius bar because it wasn't loading past the grey apple screen. The guy reinstalled mac os x and it worked just fine, however I was missing applications like iPhoto and GarageBand so I downloaded them using the cd that came with my computer. I did an update and after restarting, my dock is gone and I can't open the applications folder and finder doesn't respond at all. I get the spinning wheel of death. I did command+s while restarting and used the fsck -fy command but it said it couldn't repair my harddrive after 3 attempts. What's going on? thanks x
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toMACsh #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 30, 2009 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 4,862 Mac Specs: Mac Mini Core 2 Duo	03-13-2011, 02:27 PM It's apparently an intermittent problem. Did you get AppleCare? (It would still be good til late '11.)
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