On Jan 25, 2006, at 11:31 PM, CONGELADORA MORELIA wrote:
f) Have created a new admin user account and logged into it. New
account works normally but I cannot repair my usual admin account
from there.
As I have no Desktop/Finder icons, and the Dock's Finder icon does
not respond, I cannot get to Preferences to trash Finder Preferences.
This is excellent news: it's not the system, so no really drastic
measures are needed.
Assuming zero experience using Terminal and a unix shell:
Rule 1: Case is important. 'Users' is different from 'users'
Rule 2: Spaces are normally separators between commands and command
options. If a filename or path has a space in it you can treat this
in two fashions:
Use double quotes to contain the whole thing:
"/Users/johnson/My Long Filename With Spaces"
Or use a backslash to tell the system that the space following is
part of the name, not a separator:
/Users/johnson/My\ Long\ Filename\ With\ Spaces
Rule 3: In the spirit of This Old House: Think twice, press enter
once. Things in Unix generally are not undoable, particularly
removing files, and commands have to be entered *exactly*
Unix is a perfectly friendly operating system, it's just picky about
who it's friends are ;-)
Now that I've scared you, let me say it's actually quite simple to do
this, and I hope this fixes the problem.
(When you see something in angle brackets < > that means substitute
what appears on your computer, enter what you see on the line after
Type: and hit return before going to the next step.)
Log in as the new Admin user, start Terminal
Type:
sudo -s
And enter your password as needed.
When you get the new prompts (it'll be a # ) you're essentially
logged on as root user and cane get everywhere and delete everything.
(cd is the command you use to move around the various directories)
type
cd /Users
(ls lists the contents of a directory)
Type
ls
type
cd <username>/Library/Preferences
where <username> is the user account with the problem.
(rm deletes files. This is a potentially dangerous command, misused
it will gleefully delete every file on your hard drive. )
rm com.apple.finder.plist
This deletes the Finder prefs.
Now you can see if that fixes things, log out as one user, then back
in as the other (if you have 10.3 or better, and fast user switching
is turned on, you can do this back and forth, deleting preference
files as needed, though I don't know what could be causing this.)
There are more tricks you can do, here but lets start with this.
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