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Mac crash already!
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<blockquote data-quote="zeta101" data-source="post: 267384" data-attributes="member: 11173"><p>One possible reason all your settings and stuff are gone is because you no long have read permissions on your preferences folder (corruption due to the shutdown you did maybe). Anyway, go to your applications folder, and then into a folder called utilities and then run the app called Disk Utility. Select your main hardisk where OSX is (if you only have one disk and no external disks then you will only have one option) from the left hand pane, and then in the right hand pain click Repair Disk Permissions.</p><p></p><p>Now, log out and log in and hopefully everything will be back as it is.</p><p></p><p>One final word of advice, it sounds as though maybe you could have avoided the system crash. When a program stops responding you can "Force Quit" it and it shouldn't crash the OS. You can do this by either right clicking on its icon on the dock and selecting force quit, or bringing up the force quit dialog by selecting it from the top left apple menu.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zeta101, post: 267384, member: 11173"] One possible reason all your settings and stuff are gone is because you no long have read permissions on your preferences folder (corruption due to the shutdown you did maybe). Anyway, go to your applications folder, and then into a folder called utilities and then run the app called Disk Utility. Select your main hardisk where OSX is (if you only have one disk and no external disks then you will only have one option) from the left hand pane, and then in the right hand pain click Repair Disk Permissions. Now, log out and log in and hopefully everything will be back as it is. One final word of advice, it sounds as though maybe you could have avoided the system crash. When a program stops responding you can "Force Quit" it and it shouldn't crash the OS. You can do this by either right clicking on its icon on the dock and selecting force quit, or bringing up the force quit dialog by selecting it from the top left apple menu. [/QUOTE]
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