os x help
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- globeriding0
IMO, the only two things that *need* doing in your situation-
boot holding apple-s and at the prompt type "fsck- y" without quotes. this checks the HD. there is also a little sentence above the text input area telling you what to type in case i wrote that wrong, it's off the top of my head.
second open up disk utility in the utilities folder and select your hard drive. then click the first aid tab, then click repair permissions. it may be you need to boot off your os x cd in order to completely do this- however I find I don't need to.running a system optimiser such as sox as mentioned before 'prebinds' the application files- this can speed things up and tidy, however once it has been done once, anything previously installed when run before will not be affected when run again. if that makes sense... this used to be a nifty tip in the days of X.0, however is now largely redundant as most installers when run (especially apple's) say 'optimising' at the end of it. this is what they are doing- prebinding what you just have installed.
feel free anyone to correct me if i'm wrong.
phew. that was long.