Startup from your Mac OS X install CD and run disk utility from there, or try applejack to repair them

I will give that a try in the morning, when I get back to my studio. Thanks. SAm

Well, it seemed to repair the many incorrect permissions fine but I still am unable to open any applications that use Rosetta. I get a single bounce from the icon in the dock and t…

Rosetta can not be disabled (afaik). Open Console.app and see whether you get some message when trying to open a PowerPC application. If it really crashes you might get a crash lo…

Ok, here is tha log that appears when I try to open an application with Rosetta. I will post a couple for different apps. Pages: dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Framewo…

Soory, I just re-read your post and realized that the log I posted was not in the exact path you specified. ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ doesn't seem to have any logs for PPC apps…

Looks like some of your libraries are laking the PPC version. Paste the following into Terminal and post the results here (it will tell us for which architecture it is available): …

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices: Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386 Is the response I recieved. I assume that since I dont see…

Did you maybe use some tool to strip the PowerPC-part from some of your system libraries and/or applications to save space? Cause those libraries seem to be Intel only and PowerPC …

SON OF A MONKEY'S BUTT. You're right. In another thread on this forum someone mentioned Monolingual to save a few GBs of space. I had forgotten all about that. I can do the archi…

Monolingual only strips language packages afaik, so it should not have caused this. You can do the "file" command thing on the same library on your backup disk and if it says it's…

Holy crap. I have no idea how such a thing would happen (if Monolingual is stripping PPC code out of all binaries on the system automatically, the developer needs to have "I'm a mo…

Thanks to you all. I will indeed do the archive and install route tonight. I think Monolingual has a few different options to it, and I very well might have though, "hey, I'll try …

Seems Monolingual http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ has the option to remove architectures.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chris Grande Seems Monolingual http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ has the option to remove architectures. And there are plenty of complaints on …

That people who didn't want to strip PowerPC code wouldn't choose the option to do so?

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit That people who didn't want to strip PowerPC code wouldn't choose the option to do so? Except: 1. The default option is to strip all Pow…

Ah, I missed that stripping PowerPC was the default. That is kind of mad.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit Ah, I missed that stripping PowerPC was the default. That is kind of mad. Yep, the "Architectures" tab defaults to stripping all of whate…

Quote: Originally Posted by sknapp351 This will be only the 2nd time I will have had to reinstall OS X. Basically what happened here is that Monolingual downright damaged yo…

Oh, I dont blame Apple or OS X in the least. I was trying to get across that the only two times I have ever had to reinstall were both my fault. Both times I was playing around wit…

Archive and Install fixed me right up. I didn't realize how easy that was to do. Thanks again to all. SAm

Reading Macintouch is like reading a horror story - are there any 100% working MacBooks out there that don't whine, have a working screen and don't inflict burns on the user? If so…

*many* of the happy buyers, myself included, have already spoken up in the other threads.

I'm very happy. In the beginning, it was a bit crashprone, but the update (--> 10.4.6) and the firmware update really made a difference. No whine, no bent frame, it's fast. It…