Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.
If, once you’ve restored Keynote or iWork from your Time Machine backup disk, you get the error “Files that iWork needs are missing” when you try to run any of the iWork applications, it might be because you haven’t restored the preference files found here:
/Library/Preferences/
such as:
com.apple.iWork.Keynote.plist
com.apple.iWork09.Installer.plist
etc.
Copy those over too and you should be ok.
Apparently I had a corrupted Script Editor on my Mac running OS X 10.5.8. I have no idea why, I just know that Script Editor wouldn’t run. It would start, but it wouldn’t run. Following these instructions fixed Script Editor for me. That link contains a new Resources folder to go inside the application package.
Done!
Just in case your “friend” deletes his PATH variable and screws up his Terminal, stick this in ~/.bash_profile :
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin