I have done a foolish thing. I deleted private/var
folder due to malware I was after. I immediately felt that strange things are beginning to happen so I pressed cmd+Z
to reverse action. The computer frezzed so I shut it and rerun it. Now I cant relaunch it, because it shuts down while it is loading into my user account.
So I went to single user mode and and tried to copy the var
folder from .Trashes
to private
folder. The problem is that .Trashes
seem to be empty. Meaning that cmd-Z worked, which would mean that var folder is back in place. But the computer doesnt start. Does ls
command dosnt show files in trash? What seems to be the problem?
Also, if this doesnt work, I am gonna have to copy important files to external disc from Single user mode. What is the path to external harddrive?
EDIT > private/var does indeed have content. I am now getting confused. Did the system put some content in there for me?