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How can I fix my mom's Mac?

Asked by andrew (16543points) December 26th, 2007 from iPhone

My poor mother… Her hard drive melted down on her MacBook and the apple store replaced it, backing up her /Users /Applications and /Library on an external HD. I’ve restored those folders (backing up the new ones and using sudo cp -r since I’ve lost the I’d disk and couldn’t get the system copied over to boot off the external). Everything was going well until I replaced the /Library folder… Now she can’t run software update and trying to install iTunes 7 gives her an error.

Any thoughts? Permissions, maybe?

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