When ever I launch my safari, it will stay on for about a minute and then quits on me. It has a "safari quit unexpectedly" dialog box with a bunch of codes that I can send a report to apple. im not very good with this kind of thing, plz help!

Thank you for your response. However, my internet wont stay on long enough to copy, then sign onto this wesite and paste. Im actually borrowing a friends laptop right now to try and fix my problem.

iam in the console right now, this just started the other day, and from the 3rd fo this month i see alot of things that say:

CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist paraser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

another one says:

([0x0-0x34034].com.apple.safari[461] Job appears to have crashed:segmentation fault.

another:

saved crash report for safari [461] version 5.1.5 (6534.55.3) to /Users/cdestudent/Library/Logs/diagnosticreports/Safari_2012-04-09-185509_CDE-S tudents-Mac-mini.crash

Those are all from sender(pid) - Safari [136]

there are also messages from - com.apple.launchd[1]

and - ...hd.peruser.501[86]

Do those messages matter? Sorry i cant copy and paste the messages to help you help me diagnose the problem, if there is anything else i can do or any information i can provide you with, please let me know.

Thanks again.

Sender [PID] - com.apple.launchd[1]

says:

(com.apple.systemstarter) failed to count the number of files in "/System/Library/startupitems": No such file or directory

its says that quite often, as well as the missing semi colon part from sender: safari [136]

Thanks alot for taking the time to help me. Iam going to try this, but before i start, will this process delete anything on my computer? like downloads? pictures uploaded? programs installed?,,ect..

and i think i understand everything up until the "flashback part"

im sorry, like i said , i pretty computer illiterate.

Is that part where its checking for viruses? or?

AHHHHHHHH, i messed up big time

i dont know if this can be fixed or not.

when you said hold shift key down at boot up i though you meant to restart the computer, well it wouldnt give me that option. it also didnt give me a mac os x option to repair, only a mac hd, so i did repair that, it said everything was fine, but when it didnt give me the reboot option and i wasnt able to restart it, i accidentally hit continue and started to reinstall the whole thing. 😟

i tried to stop it, but it said i may not be able to start my computer back up, so i let it go... Is this going to whipe out everything on my computer? pictures, downloads, and progems installed? photoshop, ect.?

i didnt make a back up of my computer, but it does give me the option in utility to restore my computer... can i use the time machine? or will that restore it from factory use? or can i use anything else in the utility tab to help me (all options are available for use)

its not completely finished being installed, its at the point where it says "if you reinstalled mac os x than use the applicatons cd to reinstalle iphoto, ivideo, ect..

oh no, i hope i didnt screw myself.? :'(

i really wish i knew what i was doing!..lol..

So continue with the installation?

or do the backup?

ok, so all of my stuff is still there, i do have to reinstall i photo and a few other apps, so hopefully my pics are still there..lol

anyways....my internet is still not working. so im thinking ill try what i was supposed to do all over again?

the last time my internet crashed it says (in the console messages)

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'

so i installed disk, restarted while holding the C, selected launguage, went to disk utility

there is no step 4 of a first aid tab, until i select one of the volumes first.

the only volume i see with an OS X title is "Mac OS X install DVD" which doesnt allow me to "repair disk"

The only volume that enables that feature is called "Macintosh HD"

this is where im leaving off until further instructions. do i choose Macintosh HD? and repair that (thats what i did last time) and what do i do after that with the "reboot"

i thoght that would have been restarting my computer, but it doesnt enable that feature for me, and i also couldnt see any apllications then utility to run the disk through.

Ill wait to hear from you.

Thank you 🙂

haha whats DU? 😊

i just want to make sure Iam doing everything 100% correct without guessing. I went a few steps too far last time. lol

and when i restart this time, iam to hold the shift key down?

its done repairing , it says the volume Macintosh HD appears to be ok

ok so, i quit Disk Utility, but the option to restart is not available...no options through the apple icon are available for use