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4 Replies Last post: Sep 14, 2004 10:28 AM by Grant_G  
Click to view nickyanez's profile New Member 2 posts since
Sep 14, 2004
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Sep 14, 2004 9:42 AM

911! Lost all my Application Information!!

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?

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?
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Click to view AppleCoder's profile New Member 60 posts since
May 10, 2004
1. Sep 14, 2004 10:10 AM in response to: nickyanez
Re: 911! Lost all my Application Information!!
kind of silly, but have you shut down and restarted yet?
Click to view Grant_G's profile Old Hand 5,630 posts since
Jan 12, 2001
2. Sep 14, 2004 10:11 AM in response to: nickyanez
Re: 911! Lost all my Application Information!!
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
Click to view Grant_G's profile Old Hand 5,630 posts since
Jan 12, 2001
4. Sep 14, 2004 10:28 AM in response to: AppleCoder
Re: 911! Lost all my Application Information!!
Good one. I'd forgotten about trying that, but I recall it working in a case similar to this one.

G