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May 21, 2009

I have searched for this as much as possible but am not finding any conclusive answer and am not a techy enough to try and figure it out myself. My laptop restarted itself last night for no reason and when i restarted it, all the items on the desktop were no longer there and in the Macintosh HD folder there was a ~ file with what seemed like a system dump (approx 500kb in size) Now Firefox and iTunes no longer work. iTunes says it can not find the library file. Here are some images of what it looks like: [URL:...] and here is the log from around that time too. [URL:...] This happened 6 months ago when i tried to install CS 3 suite and i had to reinstalled OSX and start all from scratch. If i delete the file and restart the laptop, the file returns, and then it begins to no longer recognize external hard drives and the only way to access them is via Terminal. i am backing up what i can for the moment but would prefer to know what has happened and how to fix it.

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Apr 18, 2010

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Jun 30, 2012

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Hard drive, OS

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Aug 18, 2009

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Oct 13, 2009

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Apr 16, 2012

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Apr 5, 2009

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Finder used to remember this appearance perfectly. I can't remember exactly when this started, but now whenever Finder is restarted (killall Finder or a reboot) it completely forgets the settings for the Applications folder and opens it as shown in the second image, 'Finder Bug'. That's the far right of the screen, by the way. Not only does it forget the size and position of the folder's window, it also resets the grid spacing to the default value.

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Mar 7, 2009

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Nov 30, 2014

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May 18, 2010

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Oct 26, 2010

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Apr 20, 2012

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Dec 26, 2010

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Feb 1, 2012

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Apr 30, 2012

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

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Sep 16, 2010

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Jun 9, 2012

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