Q: I lost Safari by dragging to the trash

You will have to upgrade your OS unfortunately. Unless you download an old version from some third-party website.

Restore it from a backup or restart with the Command and R keys held down and reinstall the OS.

If you got Lion from one of Apple’s USB thumbdrives, you need to reinstall it from there instead of the recovery partition.

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eric.shio wrote:

 

You will have to upgrade your OS unfortunately. Unless you download an old version from some third-party website.

Existing users with OS X 10.7.5 can look in the previous purchases section of the Mac App Store, and can re-download the current installer for the release.

Apple software acquired from third-party sites has been infested with malware on occasion.

To the OP...

In this case, downloading the combo update for 10.7.5 and re-applying it will probably resolve the immediate problem, if the system restore suggested by Niel doesn't resolve this.

If your Mac supports the El Capitan upgrade, an upgrade is generally recommended — Safari itself is increasingly being rejected from various sites that require more recent security, and unfortunately trying to load newer Safari onto older versions has gotten various folks into trouble, as that doesn't work.

bettsican wrote:

 

There is no application set to open the document “MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.5(1).dmg.part”. So don't know what to do.

That download didn't complete; that's an incomplete disk image (dmg).  Try the download again.

Won't let you delete it?   What sort of error(s) are you getting?   If you look at the settings on the Safari.app bundle, select Safari and press Command-I (Get Info) and post a screen shot of the sharing and permissions section of the Get Info display.

You'll have to delete that bogus Safari.app (somehow), then empty the trash, and then reinstall the combo update.   See if that clears this.  Failing that, delete the bogus Safari, empty the trash, and download OS X 10.7.5 from the Mac App Store previous purchases — the entire distro, not the combo update — and reinstall it, or see if the recovery partition can restore the files.

If there aren't any current backups here, I'd suggest getting the backups going first, so that you have a path out if the disk goes walkabout or the upgrade fails.   Then get ongoing backups configured and operating, as all storage and all computers and all disks can and will inevitably fail, and there are far more important files — and files that are far harder to recover than Safari — on your Mac.

If your Mac supports it — not all systems running 10.7.5 do —  OS X 10.11 is the current release, and that'll load a current version of everything, including current Safari.   Have a backup before you try that, though.

Make a backup.  Or two.  Please.  Right now.  Protect your data.

From what's shown in those screen shots, it's that Safari that's the problem; if you control-click on that and select Move To Trash, it's not getting trashed?   That Safari.app bundle also certainly looks corrupted, based on the icon shown, too.

Delete that Safari installer (pkg) package.  Please don't try to install Safari that way.   That package also seems to be incompletely downloaded, based on the filename shown.  Which probably accounts for the problem.   But again, that package is not how Safari is upgraded.

Make a backup.   Better yet, make two backups to external storage.   Your own data is important, and can be irreplaceable.   OS X is replaceable.   Then either try the recovery path mentioned earlier, or download and reinstall OS X 10.7.5 from the Mac App Store — that's the full installer and not the combo update — over the top of your current OS X 10.7.5 — do not select erase-and-install here — or download and install OS X 10.11 from the Mac App Store — if your Mac supports that version.

I'd wonder what's been installed here, as third-party sites might serve up an actual Safari, or they might serve up malware pretending to be Safari — folks have already gotten nailed by fake apps — and malware may well have gotten all of your data, all of your contacts, all of your credit card information and who knows what else — banking activity? — uploaded to the 'net and to whoever posted "Safari" for you to "upgrade" your system.