Sorry for that digression, maggus8; now, back to business...
OUCH!!!You've clarified your reluctance to reinstall rather scarily. (I can't imagine how the Genius managed to do so much damage.)
I think it would pay you to post some of the specs of your installation...
- How, if at all, is your internal hard drive partitioned?
- What are you running in the way of external drives?
- If any...any partitions?
- What's on each volume or partition (if any) of each drive (internal and external)...any clones on top of your Time Machine backup, in particular?
If you'd care to answer those questions (and whichever others have eluded my fingertips at the moment), I'm certain that we can set you up with a plan that will effectively safeguard your invaluable data and records
and set your mind at ease as regards reinstallation should the need arise.
In the meantime, I hope rerunning the update has fixed whatever was wrong with Safari. (And under any circumstances, Safari's failure may have been a disguised blessing.)
