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My Powerbook reset itself!
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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I purchased a used (about 3 years old) 17" powerbook, 1GHz, 1gb RAM, 60gb hard drive just this past Saturday. Everytime seemed to work fine until this morning when I turned on my powerbook. I turned it on and saw that all my preferences that I had adjusted were gone. The dockbar is showing 3 question marks that weren't there before and Firefox, in which I downloaded just last night, is gone. Its no longer in the system. It seems like everything reset itself and I don't know why.
Any insights? What the hell do I do?
- Wrench 
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
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That's really really weird. I can't think of any reason why that should happen.
One thing about Firefox though, did you copy Firefox to your applications folder or did you just leave it on the disk image. Putting Firefox in the dock won't actually install it. You have to drag Firefox into your applications folder, and then that copy is the one installed on your machine.
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Clinically Insane
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Something strange happened to your Home folder. How much free space does the drive have?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
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If it rebooted and you have auto login for a differnt user, that could happen, or if the items were installed on an external that is not connected now....
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I have about 51gb still available. I didn't drag the firefox icon into the applications folder though, however, what I'm worried about is why my preferences reset in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
Something strange happened to your Home folder. How much free space does the drive have?
I have 51gb available. I just bought the powerbook on Saturday.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2006
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good ol' filevault, how i loath thee....
is filevault turned on?
apple->system prefs->security-> check to see if filevault is on
if it is, turn it off, and see if this problem persists
-a
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I checked the filevault and it was turned off already. its been a couple of days so far and nothing has happened...(yet). everything looks good so far.
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Addicted to MacNN
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strange. what you described is a common filevault bug. seems that everything is okay now? yes?
-a
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