OS 10.4 - Appleications / Utilites folder empty

nicnic · nicnic #1 (**permalink**)

11-27-2007, 01:44 PM

Hi all. I recently reinstalled Tiger on my Macbook from the provided install CDs and I'm missing the entire contents of the Utilities folder, and God knows what else!

I've tried searching in Spotlight, Finder and manually browsing - but they are apparently not there. Disk Utility, Activity Monitor and Textedit are notably absent!

Any ideas?

lifeisabeach · lifeisabeach #2 (**permalink**)

11-27-2007, 08:20 PM

Well nothing goes missing without a reason. Have they ever been there? If not, maybe the install process aborted prematurely for some reason? Anyone else using the computer? If you have other user accounts on the computer, you may need to log into those accounts and search their home folders. Who knows... maybe it got accidentally moved from the root Applications folder to a user's Applications folder. Or someone simply deleted it. *shrug*

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nicnic #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 28, 2006 Posts: 6	11-27-2007, 01:44 PM Hi all. I recently reinstalled Tiger on my Macbook from the provided install CDs and I'm missing the entire contents of the Utilities folder, and God knows what else! I've tried searching in Spotlight, Finder and manually browsing - but they are apparently not there. Disk Utility, Activity Monitor and Textedit are notably absent! Any ideas?
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lifeisabeach #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 30, 2007 Location: Wilmington, NC Posts: 5,787 Mac Specs: iMac i3 (mid-2010) + OS 10.8; TV 2; iPhone 4S; iPad 1	11-27-2007, 08:20 PM Well nothing goes missing without a reason. Have they ever been there? If not, maybe the install process aborted prematurely for some reason? Anyone else using the computer? If you have other user accounts on the computer, you may need to log into those accounts and search their home folders. Who knows... maybe it got accidentally moved from the root Applications folder to a user's Applications folder. Or someone simply deleted it. shrug
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