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Archive for the Tag ‘leopard’

November 1, 2007

How To Recover from Leopard’s FileVault Corruption Update

I use FileVault to encrypt my Home directory. Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard went without a hitch. I was really enjoying the OS until the first update to Leopard was installed. Long story short, something changed, I tried to boot and I couldn’t log in.
Basically Apple’s QA totally screwed me. A major bug that got [...]

October 17, 2007

How To Restore Files without .mac Backup

My blood ran cold as Backup’s restore didn’t work. There it was, my 10gig full backup file and Backup wouldn’t restore any of the files out of it. Five years of photos in an iPhoto library that I couldn’t get out… when I tried to restore, nothing, no files came back.
My old iMac was already [...]