Q: OS X 10.11.5 Bricked My MacBook Pro Primary Account
The latest release of OS X 10.11.5, which was released today, has damaged my MacBook Pro's primary user account. That account will not log in and work properly. All application icons are now the generic icon and when you try to run one of the apps represented by this icon the Mac has this error:
You can't open the application "System Preferences" because it may be damaged or incomplete.
I'm so mad at Apple right now I could spit. This problem coupled with my now bricked iPad Pro 9.7" (from today's iOS 9.3.2 update) and I've had it absolutely had it with Apple's poor update quality and I will never ever for the rest of my life trust another Apple release. The days of trusting and immediately installing all updates are over for me. DO YOU HEAR THIS APPLE?!?!?
I'm done!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), Early-2015
Posted on May 16, 2016 1:43 PM
dwmreg64 wrote:
Apple's solution is more streamlined and elegant. Only two commands were entered in Unix to resolve the issue. One was used to find the offending folders in /var/folders and the other was used to remove them.
Find the offending folders for launch services...
sudo find /var/folders -name "*.csstore" -print | grep `getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR`
Remove the offending folders:
sudo find /var/folders -name "*.csstore" -delete
I did these from another good Admin account on the same machine and restarted afterwards logging in normally. It did take some time for the system to rebuild some caches, etc. Eventually everything worked out okay. So far so good with a few weird problems I'm still figuring out (like a few mail accounts won't go online).
Anyhow use these at your own risk, etc. Always have a backup before executing commands like these.
Btw if you don't have another admin account on your machine - shame on you - that's a necessity on OS X for these kinds of issues.
Good luck!
plus all this fixed my mac...
I also had some additional problems which you might encounter...permissions were messed up on the user's home folder. So I followed these instructions to fix them:
Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203538
Now so far so good. I think I'm completely up and running now.
Posted on May 18, 2016 9:25 PM