Incredible. Macs aren't supposed to break. But apparently Mooseknuckle desktop destroys all.
After horribly ending it's life in Shetland - Jonathan's laptop has been revived. For all you other linux lovers out there, this is how I solved the problem:
HDD corrupt to some extent. Wont allow Read Write access even when sudo'd to. eventually I tried "sudo mount -t hfsplus -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 /media/Jfro" to remount in r/w but no cigar. Tried chmoding and chowning specific files and folders on the disk (you could see them - just not touch em) and nothing worked.
Eventually I spotted something simple on the ubuntu help forum: "sudo nautilus".
Problem solved - was able to use the GUI file manager to just copy and paste the files to back em up.
So now it's time to nuke the bastard with a reinstall. Win.
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