OK, I think it'll probably be useful to post a bit about how OS X applications are supposed to be installed, and how sometimes they end up actually being installed, and how these affect how you're supposed to uninstall them. Posted by spitbull at 9:39 AM on June 14, 2007 It's worth doing every year or two anyway. In the end, this approach usually saves time and agony caused by endlessly recursive problems. Another option would be to boot it in firewire target disk mode, which might make it easier to copy what you need before wiping and reinstalling the whole thing. I'm hoping your machine still functions well enough to back up from. I'd recommend you back up your own files in the user folder, save copies of your bookmarks if you haven't trashed the bookmarks file (it might be in that trash that won't empty), and do a clean system reinstall at this point, then reinstall your applications and restore your user folder. If you don't know the difference between the model of your computer and the version of the operating system, bonaldi is right: you should not be deleting or removing big chunks of software. at 2:42 AM on June 14, 2007Īnd then learn just a little bit about how your computer works.
APPDELETE FOR MAC SOFTWARE
Bring your system back up to date using Software Update. If Disk Utility is happy with your hard drive, you're likely safe just doing an "archive & install" from the OS X installer rather than actually having to wipe the drive.
APPDELETE FOR MAC INSTALL
It can't repair the current boot (startup) volume so you'll need to start from your OS X install disc and run it from there to repair any corruption. Be sure that any apps you care about are available online (Firefox, etc.) or on install disks. (External hard drives are your friend.) Rinse and repeat if there are multiple user accounts on that computer. Ideally, all of your documents are tucked away in your user folder and you can just copy that folder. In any case, the integrity of your system is definitely questionable at this point. If you were trying the Safari 3 beta, the proper way to restore the old Safari and associated shared library files is with the Safari 3 installer. Most application crashes can be resolved by force quitting the bad app via command-option-escape. I've only seen OS X that locked-up a few times. It's also likely that you have some drive corruption if you've been doing a forced hardware restart often. I see from the AppDelete website that it has an undo option but it may be too late to be sure that everything is restored. It's possible that "all associated files" deleted by AppDelete included library files used by other parts of the system.