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files and system prefs erased at restart =(
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hey there,
I've recently bought a new macbook (about a month ago) and it has been working fine until recently when I noticed some of the widgets that I had downloaded dissapearing from the dashboard...I hadn't thought anything of it since its nothing major.
However, when I turned on my macbook on the next day I found that ALL of my previous system settings (ie. my wallpaper, trackpad settings and most of my files) had been erased! =.( The weird thing is that SOME of my files are still present, I'm very puzzled =S anyone have any ideas about what's wrong with my machine?
I have installed the bootcamp beta and WIN XP SP2 but nothing was effected on that partition.
thanks for reading my post! CAL
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Posting Junkie
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How much free space do you have on your hard drive?
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I have 29GB of free space availible on my HD (and 24GB used)
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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Run Disk Utility on your hard drive. Boot from the install disk, Disk Utility is available in the menus. If it finds anything wrong, let it try and fix it.
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Addicted to MacNN
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You renamed your home folder?
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yes i renamed my home folder, i think that is around the time that everything started to go wrong...is there something wrong with doing that?
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Originally Posted by IAMCAL
is there something wrong with doing that?
Yes, it's not allowed. You need to rename it back to what it was and log out and back in again.
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Originally Posted by IAMCAL
yes i renamed my home folder, i think that is around the time that everything started to go wrong...is there something wrong with doing that?
All of your settings, documents, pictures, mail, EVERYTHING are stored in your home folder.
If you rename your home folder, the system cannot find it and will re-create the original home folder with the original name, of course reverting everything to its default settings.
Boot your machine, and without having any programs open (other than the Finder), drag the NEW home folder to the trash - don't empty the trash.
Then rename your old home folder back to what it was and restart immediately.
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I'm sending my "Warn people before they rename their home folder" feedback to Apple again. Anybody else inclined to do the same is welcome to.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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hi guys, i'm having this very same problem, but there is nothing saved on my home folder, and my hd space in going down, this morning i had 17 g and now there's like 4.
help anyone?
thanks
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nevermind. i found it.
sorry
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