Deleted Applications Folder..

Hello,

I'm newish to the mac world so bear with me..

I was deleting a file and on accident - swoop of the hand - I deleted my applications folder.
I saw it was deleting 14,000 files and I said - hold the phone. I hit stop.

It deleted about half of the fodler.

I put in the OS X install disk 1. Tried to install just the software.
It says volume locked - it also says there is no application associated with the .mpkg file.
It does not like to open it with stuffit expander.


Any ideas?

Thanks so very much,
Unhappy in former very happy mac land
Angel

I'm not a mac OSX user, but its based on Unix right? So maybe I can help :blink:
Theres a good chance that whatever I say will be wildly wrong though :tongue:

Firstly the mkpg error is obviously because you've deleted the mkpg application; there must be an install out there for it, and that won't require mkpg. It might be on the disk, or on a well known mac website?

As for the "volume locked" error; could that be a permissions error... If so

Open terminal (or terminal.app in osx) and enter your pass then type "sudo chmod 666 foldername" then type "sudo chown yourusername foldername"....

Don't try anything I've said until someone else who actually uses macs backs it up (or more likely rips it apart :biggrin:)

I tried