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03-15-2008, 11:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dallas, TX | | | My Mac did something stupid - HELP!!!!
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I dont know of it was the computer or somebody playing around on m computer and ****ing things up. Here is what happened. I lost all of my imported photos, Thunderbird email accounts, Firefox bookmarks, and iTunes imported songs. How could my computer shed all of this info? The computer is pretty much brand new. How do I prevent this from happening again. Thanks! |
03-15-2008, 11:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | Did you login under a different account? |
03-15-2008, 11:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dallas, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fenderhutz  Did you login under a different account? | nope, only one account |
03-15-2008, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: France, Switzerland | | | Did you rename / move the account folder ? |
03-15-2008, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by g4string How do I prevent this from happening again. | Backups. That's why USB drives and writable DVD media are so cheap. |
03-15-2008, 11:42 AM
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03-15-2008, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: PR | | | Did you sync something...ipod, pocket PC, |
03-15-2008, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dallas, TX | | | nothing.........I did nothing.............I think the girlfriends snoopy sister was playing around on the computer and jacked things up. |
03-15-2008, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dartmouth, Canada | | | My first thought is that someone did a restore to a previous date. |
03-15-2008, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by g4string nothing.........I did nothing.............I think the girlfriends snoopy sister was playing around on the computer and jacked things up. | Probably too late to help this time, but this is where the multiple users thing comes in handy. Once someone is logged in on as a guest (i.e. - not admin) account, they can't **** up any of your files. My wife and I each created one of these accounts for our son, and it's been flawless so far. Quote:
Originally Posted by msquared Backups. That's why USB drives and writable DVD media are so cheap. | Agreed. I'd been waiting far too long to do this thinking I needed to buy special software (I'm not running Leopard yet, and won't until it becomes workable for all my software). Turns out that LaCie has a really nice and easy program that comes free with all of its external drives called "Silverkeeper". I bought a 500 gig drive, plugged it in, turned on Silverkeeper, and now my computer backs up both hard drives once a day starting at 3 AM. I thought that it would be *way* more complicated than that. |
03-15-2008, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald Probably too late to help this time, but this is where the multiple users thing comes in handy. Once someone is logged in on as a guest (i.e. - not admin) account, they can't **** up any of your files. My wife and I each created one of these accounts for our son, and it's been flawless so far.
Agreed. I'd been waiting far too long to do this thinking I needed to buy special software (I'm not running Leopard yet, and won't until it becomes workable for all my software). Turns out that LaCie has a really nice and easy program that comes free with all of its external drives called "Silverkeeper". I bought a 500 gig drive, plugged it in, turned on Silverkeeper, and now my computer backs up both hard drives once a day starting at 3 AM. I thought that it would be *way* more complicated than that. | I use a program called SuperDuper for backup. It creates a bootable disk image. I run it about once every couple of weeks. |
03-15-2008, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Sounds like someone did a restore to previous date. Can't do much about getting your lost data back unless you know how to track down deleted data on a harddrive (which really isn't deleted, just able to be overwritten). It would be faster and easier to just put everything back on your computer and have a guest account set up with no admin abilities.
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03-15-2008, 03:29 PM
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03-15-2008, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by g4string nothing.........I did nothing.............I think the girlfriends snoopy sister was playing around on the computer and jacked things up. | How did she get access? |
03-15-2008, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Tsal It's a new one? Can you use the time machine utility? | This is a good idea, might not work though.
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Originally Posted by username n/a How is a picture of me feeling up a stranger music related? | |
03-15-2008, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoff St. Germaine I use a program called SuperDuper for backup. It creates a bootable disk image. I run it about once every couple of weeks. | That's close enough to my screen name that I literally did a double take.
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03-15-2008, 07:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | By the way...Mac's don't do stupid things...people do. Don't shoot the Mac. |
03-15-2008, 11:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoff St. Germaine I use a program called SuperDuper for backup. It creates a bootable disk image. I run it about once every couple of weeks. | I heard about super duper before. Do you do your back on external hard drive?
On a dvd?
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03-16-2008, 07:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dartmouth, Canada | | | I back up to an external drive. |
03-16-2008, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by g4string I dont know of it was the computer or somebody playing around on m computer and ****ing things up. Here is what happened. I lost all of my imported photos, Thunderbird email accounts, Firefox bookmarks, and iTunes imported songs. How could my computer shed all of this info? The computer is pretty much brand new. How do I prevent this from happening again. Thanks! | Computers don't DO anything until someone tells them to.
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