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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1661406" data-attributes="member: 204485">Because this is not really "damage" as such I doubt if the repair process in the restore partition will help.  However reinstalling the operating system should.  So booting to the Recovery partition and selecting reinstall OS should produce a new mint copy of the OS structure minus any preference changes made on the original.  So long as Clean Reinstall is not used everything else should remain as it was.  Of course all this could have been avoided if the OP had a Time Machine backup or a clone of the hard drive.ramos1209 I strongly suggest that before any more experimentation with system settings you invest in a dedicated USB hard drive and and run the native utility Time Machine.</blockquote>