Re: A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

On Apr 26, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Albert Carter wrote: > >> I agree this is a great tale and awesome and useful information. I'm not >> nitpicking here but wouldn't it have been quicker and easier to just restore >> from backup? > > > Yes it

Re: A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Albert Carter wrote: > I agree this is a great tale and awesome and useful information. I'm not > nitpicking here but wouldn't it have been quicker and easier to just restore > from backup? Yes it would have been, had there been backups to restore from... "His e

Re: A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

11 8:17 PM Subject: Re: A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day... On Apr 26, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > Caveat! > > As with ANYTHING done as root, you can really screw up the system. Using > Finder like this is taking a heavy-duty power tool, removing all t

Re: A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

On Apr 26, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > Caveat! > > As with ANYTHING done as root, you can really screw up the system. Using > Finder like this is taking a heavy-duty power tool, removing all the safety > guards, duct taping it to your hands and supergluing the trigger to the

A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

How to open a finder window as root: 10.6 10.5 and lower Saved my butt today, fixing a department head's munged Powerbook...something ate his home directo