zibertron Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Hello all, So the weirdest thing happen to me last night. I have been fussing around with my snow leopard install for the past few weeks. I keep having an issue with my usb headset. So I have been trying different distros, vanilla installs and so on. So in my machine I have two HD and they are both partitioned and I have multiple installs on them. I do this to test stuff out, so if I mess something up, i can boot into another and try and fix it. I had installed the iPortable distro on one of the partitions. To my surprise my headset didn't have an issue anymore. So I had what I thought was a brilliant idea, I'll just copy all of the kext in the /extra folder from the iportable install to my current working install. I rebooted and headset issue was still there. So I had another brilliant idea, " I'll just copy ALL of the kext in the /s/l/e from the iportable to the current" I used kext helper to do so. After it finished installing all of the kext, I hit the button to repair the cache and permissions. I had the applications finder window open behind kext helper, and I noticed that stuff was moving around, I thought no biggie, probably stuff just sorting around. At the same time I got error from kext helper about my password not being correct. It was then that I noticed that the list of applications started getting shorter. I soon realized that stuff was being deleted from my hd. Computer didn't completely freeze, I could still move mouse around, but I couldn't open or close anything. I rebooted, and received a boot1 error, but luckily I had just finished making a chameleon boot cd. I popped it in, loaded another working snow install and took a look at the original snow install. There was only 84 files left on that partition, it deleted almost everything! I don't know what went wrong, I'm pretty sure its not a good idea to install so many kext at once, but could that have prompted it to delete everything? If anyone can shed some light on the matter, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/234836-weirdest-thing-ever-almost-everything-got-deleted/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibertron Posted October 20, 2010 Author Share Posted October 20, 2010 Ok so I got home and tried to install all of the kext form the iPort install, only this time I use kext utility. That seemed to work just fine. Only I still have the usb headset issue...Arrg! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/234836-weirdest-thing-ever-almost-everything-got-deleted/#findComment-1567455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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