I am just recovering from a crashed hard drive on my Mac mini (luckily it was under warranty and I had a spare computer), so I know how you feel. The only utility I have used on my Mac if things tend to be going wrong and for regular maintenance is Disk Warrior from Alsoft - it repairs directory damage - the most common problem on the Mac. It won't work on Intel Macs as far as I know but it should work on any PowerPC ones. All you do to run it is put the CD-ROM into your drive and then hold down the letter C key and restart your Mac. Then click on rebuild directory. Other than that you can try repairing permissions with Disk Utility in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior Steve Herrick wrote: > While I was doing some repairs to my Ubuntu machine, I decided to try > out Scribus on the Mac. It's pretty good, with a few glitches here and > there. However, then my Mac also started having trouble - hanging and > whatnot. I don't blame that on Scribus. However, after one > particularly traumatic restart, I discovered that my System > Preferences were largely reset, as were my preferences in Firefox and > several other apps. Meanwhile, my work in Scribus was completely gone > - both the original file and the .bak file were turned to gibberish, > as if they were binary files. I've looked them over in vim and several > other text editors, and there's nothing even remotely recognizable. > I've given up hope of recovering them, but can anyone at least explain > what happened? > > Steve > -- > All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation > ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish > it. > - Alexis de Tocqueville > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >
