Snow leopard Disk Utility

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Snow leopard Disk Utility

Hi. I have recently installed Mac OS 10.6 on my Intel iMac (8,1). I am very pleased with it, but for some reason Disk Utility crashes each time I open it. I get an error message saying Disk Utility quit unexpectedly. I relaunch it, but then the same thing happens. At first I thought there was some error, so I restarted. That didn't help. Now disk utility is basically "useless." Is there any Terminal hack or something?

iMac 8,1, Mac OS X (10.6), Running Windows Vista Ultimate + Snow Leopard!!

Posted on Sep 5, 2009 10:15 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 5, 2009 10:33 PM in response to johannes0520

Check to see what version of Disk Utility you have in your Utilities folder.

You should have version 11.5

If not, your Disk Utility was not upgraded for some reason.

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Answer 2

Sep 5, 2009 11:07 PM in response to johannes0520

Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk. Maybe it will fix it.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them.
Then Repair Permissions.

 DALE

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Answer 3

petko

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Sep 10, 2009 8:11 AM in response to johannes0520

I have the same problem - upgraded from 10.5.8 to SnowLeopard and when I try to start Disk Utility with QSilver it just crashes during the launch. I found that if I browse with Finder to if and start from the icon - it works OK
hph

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