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Learn about Get help signing in to Messages, FaceTime, and Game CenterQ: My applications folder has a black question mark on it at the bottom of my screen. I do not know what error I made, but my fan eff ... My applications folder has a black question mark on it at the bottom of my screen. I do not know what error I made, but my fan effect of the previous applications has gone away. Can I get some help with this? more
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Jul 21, 2013 4:30 PM in response to dellcorby dellcor,★HelpfulNow I have another issue. I followed one responders suggestion & dragged the applications folder with the black question mark, to desktop. It went poof in a white cloud & was gone. Now I have no applications file at all. Is this gone forever? BTW, I do have icloud backup, but not sure if the data will be there. If by chance it is I'm not sure how to retrieve it. Yes, I know I sound so dumb. Any advices?
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Jul 22, 2013 3:34 AM in response to dellcorby WZZZ,...removed my applications folder.
From where? And to where?
If you trashed it and emptied the trash, what backup, if any, do you have? If it's still in the Trash, move it back.
If no backup, reinstall Snow, which will give you the version as of the DVD you use, then update back to 10.6.8, and run all other needed updates, including any security updates. This should save all your third party programs, as well as settings.
The white puff of smoke is nothing, it only means you moved it out of the Dock. If you still have it, or had it, as soon as you open it it would reappear in the Dock. The item in the Dock is only a kind of alias.
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Jul 22, 2013 4:04 AM in response to WZZZby WZZZ,Oh, I see you have a backup in iCloud. I don't do that and not sure what's involved with that, or whether it would have backed up your system (including the Applications folder) or just user data.
And, as far as I know, iCloud isn't available to Snow Leopard, just 10.7 and up. So what OS are you running?