AppleJack Goes Leopard

You might hope that you never need it, but if you ever run into a situation where your Mac doesn’t boot all the way to the Finder and you don’t have any boot capable utilities like Das Boot to fix your problem, AppleJack will be your best friend. AppleJack is a single-user-mode tool that is only available if you can boot your machine up in in single-user-mode by holding down Cmd-S. Once you get in it eases the process of checking your disk for any errors, permission problems, cleans your cache, gets rid of any problematic preference files, and deletes any corrupt swap data.

Many people feared that this great tool would never make the jump from Tiger to Leopard, as 10.5 make some charges that broke AppleJack’s functionality. Developer Steve Anthony took on the project of coding around the issues and giving the Mac community AppleJack back.

[Link to AppleJack]

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