{"id":3747,"date":"2011-02-01T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:52:16","slug":"mac-os-x-no-need-to-kick-it-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X: No need to kick it&#8230;.yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Must admit that I&#8217;m still mad because our Macbook Pro decided to crash and not give me access to all our files, but at least I&#8217;ve just found a workaround. <\/p>\n<p>Using the Install DVD, insert it and reboot while holding the c-button (makes your Macbook boot from CD\/DVD). When the menu appears, from Utilities choose Terminal. With root privileges you have full access to the disk. Then insert a memory stick with enough space and voila. You will find both your memory stick and your hard drive in the folder \/Volumes <\/p>\n<p>Using copy (cp) you can copy all the files missing, and a voila&#8230;just reinstall the whole thing&#8230;and then up and running again.<\/p>\n<p>Still pissed that the home folder got corrupted, but at least I managed to save all the files which I did not have a backup of (I rule!!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must admit that I&#8217;m still mad because our Macbook Pro decided to crash and not give me access to all our files, but at least I&#8217;ve just found a workaround. Using the Install DVD, insert it and reboot while holding the c-button (makes your Macbook boot from CD\/DVD). When the menu appears, from Utilities choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}