StartupItems folder missing

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StartupItems folder missing

Since upgrading to Lion, my StartupItems folder in Library is missing and I am constantly presented with an error about startup items being disabled every time I turn on my computer. Apple says the way to get rid of this is to simply delete the problematic item inside the StartupItems folder, but I can't do that because the folder isn't there.

I looked at another post on the forums and tried adding the folder through Terminal to no avail.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro 15" (Mid 2010) 2.4GHz Core i5, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iPod touch 32GB (3rd Generation)

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 7:20 AM

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AMMOCAN

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Jul 25, 2011 7:28 AM in response to Nathan Miah

In Finder go to Go > Go To Folder. Then type in /Library/StartupItems. That should take you there. If it doesn't then I would suggest doing a complete new install.

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gameduck

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Jul 30, 2011 8:58 PM in response to AMMOCAN

Mine is missing after an update as well (it went missing in 10.6.8), but I can only tell by looking at the console.

I have not fixed it yet, but here is how you can fix it.

If you have a backup or Time Capsule, use Time Machine to find and restore the file at Hard Drive>System>Library>StartupItems. Right click the folder and click Restore.

OR if you do not have a backup, here is the what I found at MacRumors: (the code part you copy and paste into the terminal)

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First, open up Terminal (Located in your /Applications/Utilities folder). Then cd to the /System/Library directory by typing:

Code:

cd /System/Library

Press enter. Now you have to create a new StartupItems directory. To do this type:

Code:

sudo mkdir StartupItems

Press enter, and it will ask for your admin password, type it in, press enter one last time, and that's it.

The second command is case sensitive, so make sure that the "S" and the "I" in StartupItems are capitalized. Also, if anyone is wondering why do you have to use sudo. It's because, any command that modify's the /System/Library directory needs to be executed as root.

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Wagy

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Dec 13, 2011 10:24 AM in response to Nathan Miah

I have the same problem, the recomanded tips didnt work for me ): I got the message "StartupItems: File exists" in the terminal but still cant find the map!

Anything more i can try? 🙂

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