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Jan 9, 2008, 07:09 AM
 
I woke up this morning, got on my computer which had been on all night and connected to the net, and it appears that the only data on my H/D is Leopard??

Where did everything else go? Office suite disappeared, photos, music, etc.. all gone..

Help?

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Jan 9, 2008, 11:59 AM
 
It sounds like you have renamed your home folder. If this is true, then all of your files, photos and music is still there, OS X just doesn't know where they are, so it made you a 'new' home folder.

Please see this thread to see if it resolves your issue http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/...y-user-folder/
     
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Jan 10, 2008, 03:58 PM
 
What was equally weird, when I came back from errands, I turned the puter on and everything was back - There is some voodoo shiznizzle drizzlin' in da crib
     
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Jan 10, 2008, 04:15 PM
 
Hmm, odd. Glad everything is OK now.
     
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Jan 10, 2008, 05:40 PM
 
One word, ChiWhiSox: backup. It's always a good idea but maybe you should be a little more motivated to have a great backup at this point in time...
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Jan 10, 2008, 06:11 PM
 
Congrats! That is only the second time in the history of this forum that shiznizzle has been used!
     
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Jan 10, 2008, 06:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by ChiWhiSox View Post
What was equally weird, when I came back from errands, I turned the puter on and everything was back - There is some voodoo shiznizzle drizzlin' in da crib
lol that's definitely what it was.
     
   
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