[nickyanez]

Here's the skinny:
1. At work with my month old PB 17' 1.5 - Decided to index HD for the first time
2. Index was only on 15,000 of 228,000 after 3 hours. Cancelled Indexing. Decided to only Index Home directory. Put PB to sleep after index. Went home
3. 3 hours later @ home. Wake up my Mac. WHERE DID EVERYTHING GO? /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Things gone:
1. All iCal calendars.
2. All iMail settings.
3. All iChat settings. (buddies still there)
4. All files placed on desktop.
5. All iTunes settings & playlists.
6. Safari settings
7. Dock Settings (back to factory default).
8. When I run an App, it thinks it is running for the first time. Asks to register & accept license aggrements, yada yada. But no documents seem to have been lost (except desktop items)
Can't think of anything else I changed yesterday besides my indexing attempt of the HD & successful index of Home dir. I disabled Fast User switching of Accounts. But that shouldn't have changed much since i'm the only user.
Help? /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[AppleCoder]

kind of silly, but have you shut down and restarted yet?

[Grant_G]

First place to look is in that Users folder: go to Library > Preferences and make sure everything is there. There should, for instance, be a large number of files reading com.apple.XXX.plist (XXX being the name of an Apple application). I fear you interrupted the indexing at the point these files were being copied and somehow they were deleted.
G

[nickyanez]

There should, for instance, be a large number of files reading com.apple.XXX.plist (XXX being the name of an Apple application).
"Large" number of files? I only count 10... /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif Looks like I may have done myself in on this one.
BUT...
I'm a recent switcher - Is there any way to do a system snapshot restore like there is on the PC?

[Grant_G]

Good one. I'd forgotten about trying that, but I recall it working in a case similar to this one.
G