AppleJack startup utility now works with Snow Leopard

In the hustle and the bustle of last week's full-court press press, there was a bit of Mac news worthy of mention: the indispensable AppleJack single-user utility has been updated for compatibility with Snow Leopard. If you never need AppleJack, you'll be happier, but if and when you do need it there's no doubt it can save your sanity (and your Mac).

Developed by Kristofer Widholm with an assist from Steve Anthony, the AppleJack utility can only be run when you boot your Mac into single-user mode (by holding down the S and Command keys during startup). It will allow you to clean caches, run repairs and generally happy-make your unhappy Mac. The tool is open-source and free, so go get it.

[hat tip to TidBITS]

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Source: http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

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donmontalvo

One of the finest utilities ever made for Mac OS X.

Don

July 21 2010 at 10:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BigB

Any hints or how-tos on adding Applejack to a start up USB or cd system disk? perhaps using Das Boot or something similar?

Applejack would sure be helpful in that situation.

July 21 2010 at 9:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jimtastor

Been using applejack for a long time. I downloaded the new version couple days ago...makes my Mac (and me) very happy.

Thanks AppleJack

July 21 2010 at 9:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Doe

Flash has been crashy for me since Flash 10.1 and Safari 5 updates. I've been using Click to Flash (or as I call it, "click to crash") for a few weeks to avoid the problem. AppleJack (on auto) just fixed the problem for me. I'm going to have to test some more, but I just repeated the steps I would take to make the thing crash, with Click to Flash disabled and Safari/Flash handled my request just fine.

Thanks AppleJack!

July 21 2010 at 7:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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cdenzel

Good to know, I've been having the same problems running Flash Gala.
I'll give this a try.
Thanks!

July 21 2010 at 10:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Doe

I'm not running Gala if that matters... I need an upgrade soon...

MacBook Pro
Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz
4 Gigs of RAM
500GB HDD
10.6.4

July 21 2010 at 10:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Codey H.

generally happy-make your unhappy Mac

wow

July 21 2010 at 6:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply