Thanks for getting back w/ me. You are very kind.
I've been freaked since I installed DiskWarrior and disabled my ability to access my corporate email and created general instability in multiple applications, including "Mail".
For some reason I thought the lastest version of DiskWarrior was Leopard compatible... I can't believe I wasn't more careful.
Anyway, I asked a friend at Apple if there was anyway to recover and this is what he said, see below. Interestingly it seemed to work and things seem to be back to normal (can access my virtual machine which contains Windows XP and all apps seem to work so far)(one problem I noticed just after rebuilding the directory and repairing permissions, which still persists. Just after using DiskWarrior I was organizing my email in my Mail Inbox and created a mailbox then tried to add mail messages to it. The message could not be dragged or moved into the mailbox... I checked and the mailbox and it was Read Only. I've been trying to delete it w/ out any luck, even after going to the finder level and changing the attributes to read and write. It may be that the mailbox was created by Root and I'm not sure how to delete it... The reason I say that is because in trying to copy the DiskWarrior log file to a new Text Edit document, when I went to save it, the first option of where to save it was root... I've never seen that before... However, beyond that I haven't fully tested everything yet, but will over the weekend and will hope for the best. ( I also tried a few other things before I tried his last suggestion, see below intermixed w/ your last suggestion.)
"OUCH! looks like this is the only answer
Note: If you have used any utility to repair permissions of a Leopard startup disk while started from Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier, Alsoft recommends that you perform an upgrade install of Leopard over your existing Leopard install.
This will restore any changed permissions to their original values without altering your data.
let me know how it works out
good luck s"
On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:36 PM, I wrote:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20071203100756482
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From: "Technogeezer" <communities-emailer@vmware.com>
Subj: New message: "Repaired permissions and rebuilt directory with DiskWarrior 4 and now can't logon to my virtual machine, error: Failed to connect to peer process."
Date: Fri Jan 4, 2008 2:14 pm
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To: Me
A new message was posted in the thread "Repaired permissions and rebuilt directory with DiskWarrior 4 and now can't logon to my virtual machine, error: Failed to connect to peer process.":
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Author : Technogeezer
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The "Macintosh HD Report.pdf" document doesn't make me feel comfortable. They've "fixed" some things without letting you know what they "fixed".
Here's how I would proceed:
First, put that DiskWarrior disk away for a while :smileyblush:
Then:
Boot from the Leopard DVD, and use Disk Utility to verify and repair the hard drive.( DID THIS) Don't repair permissions, (DID THAT TOO...) you'll do that in step 2.
Boot from the hard drive, log in as an administrator, and use Disk Utility to repair permissions.
De-install Fusion using the VMware provided utility (can't remember exactly where it is, but the documentation should tell you). A simple delete of the VMware Fusion application is insufficient, there are additional components that are installed on your hard drive.
Re-install Fusion
If this doesn't take care of it, then I'd get Alsoft (the publisher of DiskWarrior) involved. My fear is that there's something wrong with a file on your system as a result of what DiskWarrior did - and it has given you no indication of what it messed with.
By the way, why did you run DiskWarrior? (MY APPLE FRIEND ASKED ME THE SAME QUESTION, GUESS ALL I CAN SAY IS I HAVE BEEN USING IT AS A REGULAR PREVENTATIVE PROCESS FOR MANY YEARS W/ NO PROBLEM...) I tend not to run 3rd party disk utilities unless absolutely necessary (problem that OSX's utilities can't fix).
