directory damage

[Blazinskyline]

One of my friends had to send his macbook pro in to get the cd/dvd drive fixed.. so he gets his laptop back and they deleted limewire and azureus from his computer because they say that those 2 programs mess up the file directory.. They also told him that the file directory has already been severely and they wont fix it because applecare does not cover this.. Is this ture about limewire and azureus? and if his file directory is in deed damage should he be worried and is there a way to fix it?

 

[Kash]

Seems to me that the techs messed up and are just using a lame excuse to cover up their mistake.

My sister uses Limewire and her "directory structure" is just fine. I have yet to see a P2P program damage a Mac's directory

 

[unlokia]

Perhaps they are trying to suggest you stop using P2P, and possibly assume that it is far too difficult for you to re-install these. LOL!.

Maybe they think you will be getting Leopard from torrent... who'd wanna do that?!

 

[mac57]

I agree with Kash. No application ought to be able to damage your file structure, other than Disk Utility perhaps, which is purpose written for this. This sounds like an attempt to fob off the user and move on to other less challenging stuff. Surprising actually, coming from Apple folks. I would have expected better.

 

[unlokia]

I agree with Kash. No application ought to be able to damage your file structure, other than Disk Utility perhaps, which is purpose written for this. This sounds like an attempt to fob off the user and move on to other less challenging stuff. Surprising actually, coming from Apple folks. I would have expected better.

What you have to remember, is that all "Apple folks" are humans, and not one of us is perfect; you may say that "you always get ONE bad apple". This by no means, is directly indicative of Apple tech as a whole. A one off.

 

[Blazinskyline]

thanks for the input guys.. i thought it did sound like BS

 

[giulio]

Disk Warrior is pretty good at fixing things like this.

 

[mac57]

unlokia is right! Almost always "one bad apple" in the batch. A clever turn of phrase - thanks unlokia!