Paranoid Android X

Crazily, even though OS X went all mental on me it wasn’t long before I had everything back as it was.

As I expected I resorted to re-installing OS X with the “archive and install” option.  It essentially keeps your User folder as it is, but replaces all the folders that have something to do with OS X itself.  And all the folders that are replaced are nicely archived away for you in a folder.

This method of install works a treat on OS X and restoring everything has been so much easier than it was when ether I had to do anything similar with windows.  Probably because all the apps keep their settings and support files in logical folder locations.  Rather then been crammed into a registry where settings are difficult to migrate into. and mix and match

Most of my apps worked fine, some that didn’t I could get working by manually finding the things they require in the archived /Library dir.  Things like Audio Unit Components and the the like.

Only with 2 apps so far have I resorted to reinstalling.

All this ease has done little to please my paranoid side however.  I cannot stop from wondering what could have possibly caused the problem.  Whatever was messed up was something at the heart of the OS, because it was only seconds into booting before getting dumped to the terminal.  Something that shouldn’t be written to in every day use, so I can’t help thinking it must have been caused by the hard drive itself.  It had shutdown fine the night before.

So am I going to start finding files randomly getting corrupt? ugh.  I’m not sure how I could diagnose the issue.  All the hardware tests I’ve tried so far have come up fine and dandy.