[Wolf68k]

Ok. Enough from the both of you. Take it to PM. Help the OP with real solutions or don't say anything at all.

[Allen14n]

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Saturday, May 5 2012, 05:47)

Invest in getting a copy of DiskWarrior http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/ Yes I know at $100 it's not cheap, but trust me it's well worth it. It's very possible that for the most part the OS is fine, just with some issues and it's very possible that DW can fix it. It's a bootable disk that does one things, repair the OS and system files. It also defrags which is also a good thing.

Thanks for the suggestion. I was a bit skeptical at first, but it does seem like a convincing way to recover files. I think I might just go for DiskWarrior after all. I hope it's worth the money.

[Wolf68k]

I make no promises that it'll work in your case, so don't hate if it doesn't work for you. If it doesn't that's a sign that the problem is pretty deeper (like missing or corrupt system files) or possibly hardware related.
I can say that in my personal experience I've had it fix a lot of issues I've had in the past, short of a hardware problem of course.
My dad got me to start using it back in what is now known as the Classic OS days. I think we were using OS 8.x or for sure OS 9.x. Prior to that we relied on Norton Utilities for the Mac which was great back then.

This post has been edited by Wolf68k on Tuesday, May 8 2012, 15:27

[Allen14n]

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Tuesday, May 8 2012, 15:22)

I make no promises that it'll work in your case, so don't hate if it doesn't work for you. If it doesn't that's a sign that the problem is pretty deeper (like missing or corrupt system files) or possibly hardware related. I can say that in my personal experience I've had it fix a lot of issues I've had in the past, short of a hardware problem of course. My dad got me to start using it back in what is now known as the Classic OS days. I think we were using OS 8.x or for sure OS 9.x. Prior to that we relied on Norton Utilities for the Mac which was great back then.

I think what happened was:
I was working on something on my MacBook. All of a sudden, the programs stopped responding. I shut the system down and turned it back on. The screen showed this flashing icon of a file or folder with a question mark in the middle.

I really hope it works.