Sure, it sounds like a kids’ cereal or, if you’re going in a more adult direction, an alcoholic apple-based drink—and isn’t it weird that those two things share a name—but this AppleJack is something else entirely.
We’ve mentioned the troubleshooting and repair utility before, but there’s good news for folks who have been having trouble with their Leopard-based machines: the newly released AppleJack 1.5 is at long last compatible with the polka-dotted cat.
If you’ve never used it, AppleJack is a little different than many of your other troubleshooting apps: it requires you to boot up in single-user mode and then lets you perform maintenance procedures such as disk repair, preference validation, and cache cleaning in a handy text-based system. It’s handy for occasions when you can’t boot into OS X’s GUI and don’t have a troubleshooting disc at your disposal.
So, if you’ve been browsing this blog on your Windows machine, or via Lynx (hey, how does the site look in Lynx anyway?), because Leopard’s crapped out on you, get thee to AppleJack post haste.
Earlier editions of AppleJack were awesome. I hope this version is the same. AppleJack saved so many computers (in a school environment) and so much time, I can't even begin to tell you. When I saw this entry about AppleJack being updated, I let out one big "WooHoo!" AppleJack and DiskWarrior should be part of every "techie" arsenal.
This version of Applejack seems to perform very much like the 1.4.3 version. Repairing permissions takes longer, but that is a 10.5 issue, not an Applejack issue. I am very happy that this version for 10.5 is out!
"the newly released AppleJack 1.5 is at long last compatible with the polka-dotted cat."
Wow, Jaguar support. About time :)