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iMac put everything in the trash!!!
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Arkansas, USA
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Our iMacs are up to date, always installing updates when it tells us to. Yesterday my wife turns on her iMac (intel based) and the entire computer has reset itself to day one. No desktop, no software we've installed, nothing on the harddrive (photos, etc.) Mac Mail has no accounts listed, the whole thing is like day one. She decides to re-boot it except it won't reboot. She does some clicking and when she gets into the trash, finds that just about her whole computer has put itself in the trash. It wouldn't restart because the start-up disc is in the trash, as are all her emails, photos, etc. It completely removed FireFox, Dreamweaver and several other programs we installed.
Has anyone ever heard of an iMac putting itself in the trash???? What the heck is going on????
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle, Washington
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I'm sorry, but OS X never puts the entire system in the trash. I suspect foul play.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: PDX
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Yeah something like that doesn't just happen. That's gotta be someone messing with you.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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in future I recommend only having 1 admin account and for everyone else and for everyday use create standard or managed accounts.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Brushton, New York (middle of nowhere)
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Something paranormal is happening, and if you have kids I would check with them. Little hands can destroy years of work with the touch of a keystroke (my eight year old half brother cracked the LCD of my thirteen year old brother's HP Pavilion notebook the day he got it.)
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The Mac Collection:
Power Mac G4 Sawtooth at 450MHz, Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet at 400MHz, three Power Mac FW800's at 1.0GHz, MacBook Pro at 2.0GHz, my late father's G3 iMac at 350MHz, an iMac at 500MHz, a PowerBook G4 (12-inch VGA) and a PowerBook 170
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Kansas City, Mo
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Michigan, USA
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I used to wonder why everything from my desktop (also an imac  ) went into the trash by itself. I later found my 2 year old kid was very handy with computers. He used to move everything into random folders, now he just makes piles out of icons 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I think a similar thing happened due to my younger brother on our family's LC.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Jose, CA
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Didn't there used to be a Trash extension in the Classic days that had Oscar the Grouch singing: "Oh, I love trash!" whenever you put something in the trash? I recall problems where kids would just keep putting stuff in the trash to hear Oscar sing. Your old LC made me think of that.
Steve
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