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Reinstalled the system
Authored by: robg on Mar 28, '01 08:30:54AM
Med - I don't think you had to reinstall the system, but the good thing is that the OS X installer seems quite smart. It will leave your Users folder alone (or it should have, assuming you didn't simply wipe the drive) when you reinstall. It also seems to leave your installed Apps alone, and just fixes what it needs to. For the permissions issue on the Applications folder, you can usually fix those things via the terminal in UNIX, but you'll need to understand a bit more about UNIX's 'chmod' (change permissions) and 'chown' (change owners) commands first. I wrote a tutorial on 'chmod' permissions, designed with new UNIX users in mind (since I am one!). For 'chown', try typing "man chown" in the terminal window to read about how it works. Sorry you had to reinstall, but glad you're up and working again!

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