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Safari beta messed up my Macbook! What to do?
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The installer, actually the uninstaller to revert to 2.0, froze. Now I have no copy of Safari on my computer (only Camino) and no Cocoa apps on my system will open, meaning I can't even open Installer.
Any ideas?
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hence why its a beta.
If worst comes to worst probably worth reinstalling the Mac OS X 10.4.9 Combo Updater. Pretty handy at fixing stuff like this.
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Originally Posted by Peter 
hence why its a beta.
If worst comes to worst probably worth reinstalling the Mac OS X 10.4.9 Combo Updater.
If the Installer is not running, that's probably not an option.
Instead do -> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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Stating the obvious, have you tried rebooting?
If that still doesn't fix the applications not running error --Try rebooting into Safe Mode, by rebooting and after the start up chime press and hold the shift key until the Apple with spinning gear appears. This will force a directory check and not load any user mods, just the core operating system. See if you can launch and application now? To leave Safe Mode just reboot your Mac.
Is Safari absent from your Applications folder? Try running the un-installer again...
If all else fails and you're within your complementary (or if you bought AppleCare) give AppleCare a call -- they can give you the best remedy without further buggering up your system.
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Actually it's not all fixed. Everything except the installer runs 
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I had the exact same problem. For me, I wasn't even able to install Safari 3. It deleted Safari 2 but Installer froze when it tried to install Safari 3.
I needed to do an archive install anyway, but that's ridiculous. I definitely won't be even trying Safari 3 until Leopard comes out, and even then I'll probably just keep using Camino.
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"That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario!" *wheeze*
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So, if Apple first releases are the equivalent of betaware, Apple betaware appears to be the equivalent of the developers first run before going to QA testing ...
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I dunno. Running fine here.
"Beta" does mean that problems are to be expected on occasion, and it this issue certainly doesn't appear to affect a huge number of people...
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Works great on my 2001 G4 tower, no problems.
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Works perfect here on my G5 tower, and on my crappy eMachines XP PC. Love it. Sorry about your bad experience.
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FYI, I fixed it. I just got Installer.app of the Mac OS X Install disk and copied into the application folder.
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