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Can't login as an admin, log files are going nuts,HELP!

The heart of the matter:
1) About a year ago I realized my ASL log files were growing out of control (about 30gb right now)
2) I d/led Omni DiskSweeper and Yasu
3) I started using Yasu regularly and it seemed to keep things a lot cleaner
4) Suddenly, out of nowwhere I started getting warnings again that my hd was full but
I couldn't log in as an admin, it rejected the passwords I'd set years ago and I was unable to reset
to a new password with the startup disk (the new password is never recognized when I reboot)
5) Yasu completely stopped working, now every time I try to launch it it says
"error dscl_cmd DS Error -1436 (eDSRecordNotFound (56)"

I'm not that comfortable getting under the hood or using console. Is a complete reinstall the easiest/only fix? One more wrinkle I d/led MacKeeper recently but found it useless and irritating cause of my login issue so dumped it.

Thanks so much!

Macbook 2.2ghz White, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Feb 22, 2011 6:36 AM

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User profile for user: frank va
frank va
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Sep 10, 2011 9:47 AM in response to ironfrank

Regarding MacKeeper, make sure you remove all associated files ...



To Completely Uninstall and Remove Zeobit's MacKeeper



Download and Install AppCleaner

Download and Install Find Any File


Run AppCleaner

  1. Click on Applications
  2. Select MacKeeper
  3. Click on Search
  4. Select all results
  5. Click on Delete

Run Find Any File

  1. Search for zeobit
  2. Select and Delete all results (except for those already in the Trash)
  3. Search for mackeeper
  4. Select and Delete all results (except for those already in the Trash)

Open Up Keychain Access

  1. Search for zeobit
  2. Select and Delete all results
  3. Search for mackeeper
  4. Select and Delete all results

Secure Empty Trash


Reboot


Unless you perform all of these steps, you'll have remnants of Zeobit's MacKeeper app. I had installed MacKeeper several weeks ago, when I had accidentally deleted some files on my Mac -- hoping to use their "undelete" feature. This was when my nightmare began. Even after using AppCleaner to remove it, there were still some background processes that were running every 10 seconds. While probably harmless, this adds unnnecessary strain on the Mac.


The key was also using Find Any File and delete any entries in the Keychain Access.



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I hope this helps! 🙂

Frank

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