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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1570656" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I just read over your prior post. You indicated you were given this MacBook recently? Just reinstall OS X and call it a day. There is simply no telling what the prior owner has done to it. At the least, s/he had a version of Safari on it that doesn't even work on this version of OS X, so who knows what other cruft is on there. If you ever want this thing to work properly, just reinstall OS X from scratch.</p><p></p><p>If you really want to know... I'm no expert on reading error messages, but the last part seems to be the most relevant:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Those files are all in /System, and that is a folder you never ever ever EVER want to mess with. EVER! That is the beating heart of OS X and tinkering in there will make your system unusable if you don't know exactly what you are doing. As it stands, it seems from the error message that something is missing from that folder, and that same something wasn't added back in by the Update Combo, likely because there was no update for it. It could be a result of other issues like bad permissions. Maybe the prior owner screwed with it. You may well even have a failing hard drive for all we know and some files there are corrupt.</p><p></p><p>What I'm going to recommend right off the bat here is you test your hard drive just to make sure it isn't failing. For as old as that MacBook is right now, if that's the original hard drive, then there's a good chance it is nearing end of life. <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/301467-ntfs-mac-not-working.html#post1528773" target="_blank">Read my tutorial</a> on how to do so using a couple free-to-try SMART monitoring tools.</p><p></p><p>If your drive checks out, then seriously... just reinstall OS X and call it a day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1570656, member: 38864"] I just read over your prior post. You indicated you were given this MacBook recently? Just reinstall OS X and call it a day. There is simply no telling what the prior owner has done to it. At the least, s/he had a version of Safari on it that doesn't even work on this version of OS X, so who knows what other cruft is on there. If you ever want this thing to work properly, just reinstall OS X from scratch. If you really want to know... I'm no expert on reading error messages, but the last part seems to be the most relevant: Those files are all in /System, and that is a folder you never ever ever EVER want to mess with. EVER! That is the beating heart of OS X and tinkering in there will make your system unusable if you don't know exactly what you are doing. As it stands, it seems from the error message that something is missing from that folder, and that same something wasn't added back in by the Update Combo, likely because there was no update for it. It could be a result of other issues like bad permissions. Maybe the prior owner screwed with it. You may well even have a failing hard drive for all we know and some files there are corrupt. What I'm going to recommend right off the bat here is you test your hard drive just to make sure it isn't failing. For as old as that MacBook is right now, if that's the original hard drive, then there's a good chance it is nearing end of life. [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/301467-ntfs-mac-not-working.html#post1528773"]Read my tutorial[/URL] on how to do so using a couple free-to-try SMART monitoring tools. If your drive checks out, then seriously... just reinstall OS X and call it a day. [/QUOTE]
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