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Please help.
This morning my iMac with Snow Leaopard worked fine. I shutdown and went to work, came back, switched on and it does not log me in any more.
At first it failed to boot correctly - stopping at the blue screen. I rebooted and it went to the login prompt. As I am the only user, it usually doesn't do that - it logs straight in. It will not go past the login prompt. There is no password, so I click on continue and it seems to be trying to login, but then comes back to the login prompt.
I rebooted with the SL Install Disk and repaired the disk. The repair found file and directory errors, which it corrected - ending with a successful repair.
Now it boots up, but still will not go past the login prompt.
I have managed to get in by booting from an external partition created with SuperDuper! (thanks again to SuperDuper!). Unfortunately, I do not have a backup which is anything like uptodate, except the Time Machine ones.
Please advise. How should I repair my ID or permissions or whatever, so I can get back in to the correct partition without losing any information (or as little as possible?
The internal disk is readable, so I am hoping the damage is not too serious. I am just worried that my ham-fisted attempts to repair it will cause more damage.
Needless to say I have been planning to do a new backup for days, but needed to install a new external disk to make room. Of course I never quite got around to it.
This morning my iMac with Snow Leaopard worked fine. I shutdown and went to work, came back, switched on and it does not log me in any more.
At first it failed to boot correctly - stopping at the blue screen. I rebooted and it went to the login prompt. As I am the only user, it usually doesn't do that - it logs straight in. It will not go past the login prompt. There is no password, so I click on continue and it seems to be trying to login, but then comes back to the login prompt.
I rebooted with the SL Install Disk and repaired the disk. The repair found file and directory errors, which it corrected - ending with a successful repair.
Now it boots up, but still will not go past the login prompt.
I have managed to get in by booting from an external partition created with SuperDuper! (thanks again to SuperDuper!). Unfortunately, I do not have a backup which is anything like uptodate, except the Time Machine ones.
Please advise. How should I repair my ID or permissions or whatever, so I can get back in to the correct partition without losing any information (or as little as possible?
The internal disk is readable, so I am hoping the damage is not too serious. I am just worried that my ham-fisted attempts to repair it will cause more damage.
Needless to say I have been planning to do a new backup for days, but needed to install a new external disk to make room. Of course I never quite got around to it.