[Scribus] serious mac trouble

[Benjamin Huot]

I am just recovering from a crashed hard drive on my Mac mini (luckily 
it was under warranty and I had a spare computer), so I know how you 
feel. The only utility I have used on my Mac if things tend to be going 
wrong and for regular maintenance is Disk Warrior from Alsoft - it 
repairs directory damage - the most common problem on the Mac. It won't 
work on Intel Macs as far as I know but it should work on any PowerPC 
ones. All you do to run it is put the CD-ROM into your drive and then 
hold down the letter C key and restart your Mac. Then click on rebuild 
directory. Other than that you can try repairing permissions with Disk 
Utility in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.

http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior

Steve Herrick wrote:
> While I was doing some repairs to my Ubuntu machine, I decided to try
> out Scribus on the Mac. It's pretty good, with a few glitches here and
> there. However, then my Mac also started having trouble - hanging and
> whatnot. I don't blame that on Scribus. However, after one
> particularly traumatic restart, I discovered that my System
> Preferences were largely reset, as were my preferences in Firefox and
> several other apps. Meanwhile, my work in Scribus was completely gone
> - both the original file and the .bak file were turned to gibberish,
> as if they were binary files. I've looked them over in vim and several
> other text editors, and there's nothing even remotely recognizable.
> I've given up hope of recovering them, but can anyone at least explain
> what happened?
>
> Steve
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