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    Have I lost it all

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by TNWoodwright, Feb 14, 2008.

  1. TNWoodwright

    TNWoodwright Notebook Enthusiast

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    I shut off my macbook. when I started it up again. All my prefs were gone. Also I can't get into the music,pics, and docs because it gives me "can't find the volume" message. All my emails are gone. Everything is gone from firefox,camino. Iphoto shows no pictures. Its as if this was the first time I turned the machine on. Except the applications folder is still there. The drive statistics are still the same as it was before. 45gb used 15 free What the hell happened!!! this is the second hard drive for this thing I do have backups of most of my data
    Anyway to "remount" the volumes

    Just found out all my widgets are gone. I've about had it with Apple. Windows may suck but never had one trash itself like this thing

    GD it. I've lost everything in my Itunes to. F this thing
     
    TNWoodwright, Feb 14, 2008
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    it sounds absolutely obscure and it *sounds* to be most likely a hardware rather than a software problem
     
    masterchef341, Feb 14, 2008
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  3. Xander

    Xander Paranoid Android

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    Did you change the Home folder's Short Name?

    Read this <noparse>Apple</noparse> Support Document, Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory:
    Mac OS X 10.4 Help: About the Home Folder's Name

    Recover from renaming your Home folder
     
    Xander, Feb 14, 2008
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  4. TNWoodwright

    TNWoodwright Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don't have user folder. At least according to spotlight. I did find the old home file by using spotlight and the old name. Renamed the "new" one as it stated. The old home file has 40gig of data in it but it didn't' change anything except mount the music,document, and picture file. But the data isn't available to any of the programs as I have no pics in Iphoto, music in Itunes or any docs back. I can't even fathom that apple hasn't fixed this or even warned anyone.

    IS there a way to dig the data out. Or do I have 40gig of junk except for applications. And what happened to the BS that OS10 didn't put files all over like windows that apple pushes
     
    TNWoodwright, Feb 14, 2008
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  5. RadcomTxx

    RadcomTxx Notebook Deity

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    go to root\Users

    thats where you will see your other home folder. And yes, they did warn you during the setup assistant when you power up the mac for the first time to not rename your home folder.

    also, did you log out and back in or restart after changing the the names? you have to do that for it to take effect. Plus your data is fine.
     
    RadcomTxx, Feb 14, 2008
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