<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">First, Suitcase conflicting with Adobe cannot directly cause corruption of your hard drive. Both Suitcase and Adobe work on the file level, which means that they can corrupt a file, but they rely on the underlying operating system for finding the file and providing it to them. If there is corruption of the hard disk, it is that underlying level or hardware-based.<div><br></div><div>Next, checking the disk, rather than repairing, will not modify it, therefore is a safe way to tell you if it is corrupt. If it is corrupt, it is relatively safe to run Apple's repair utility in repair mode. If so, keep running it until either you end up with no errors, or you end up in a loop where repairing one error causes the other and vice versa.</div><div><br></div><div>If the latter is true, get a copy of Alsoft Diskwarrior. It is much better at fixing disk corruption than anything else out there.</div><div><br></div><div>Applejack (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) automates all of the Apple provided repairs, but is useless if you don't already have it installed.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, what you might have is a corrupt system. There are several levels that could be the culprit here, anywhere from a corrupt user (most likely a preference file) to the actual system is corrupt. Depending on where it is, an archive and install may or may not solve your issue.</div><div><br></div><div>My guess is that you've disabled the wrong font, which the system needs to run. I haven't used Suitcase in a long while, but recall that they give rather strong warnings before you disable system fonts. Did you do so? If so, you may have put your system in a state where you either need to call someone to put the files back or do an Archive and Install. The reason I say call someone is because I am not certain of the particulars of which fonts are missing and where Suitcase moves them to disable them. Otherwise, I could tell you what commands to enter in Single User Mode.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div>On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:12 PM, AB wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">My HDD seems to need repaired. I'm pretty sure this is due to my font management library, Suitcase fusion conflicting for whatever reason with Adobe suite.<br><br>To my understanding if I follow the directions found here.<br><a href="http://macs.suite101.com/article.cfm/when_macs_crash">http://macs.suite101.com/article.cfm/when_macs_crash</a><br><br>it won't erase the current or existing applications and files? Am I mistaken? I've only done complete installs and upgrades with Macs. On Windows I know there's a repair option and performed such on countless occasions. <br><br>I know I <span style="font-style: italic;">should</span> back up files before performing maintenance. However, my present budget doesn't allow me to make any unexpected purchases right now and the backup would be to large to manually break down to be backed up on discs as I don't have enough to do so. And the system needing repairs is 10.4.11 which means it
does not have the Time Machine.capabilities.<br><br>Thanks in advance for your help!<br>-A.<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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