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renaming the hard drive

  • 17-06-2007 3:47pm
    #1
    eurotrotter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭


    yesterday i went to remain the hard drive, just by rightclicking, and then i renameed it back again to wat i had it as originally
    i shutdown the computer and switched it on the next day to find that the contets of the desktop was wiped, all my settings were gone, e.g. background different, had to go through license agreeements again, had to import music int itunes/songbirds library
    wat could have gon wrong?!
    is ther some tye of restore funciono nmacs that i kood use?

    when i check the properies of the hard drive, the ree/used space is the space as what it was before any thee files disappeared.
    just switched on my hard drive this morning to find all the music in the 'music' folder has dissppeared! dunno wats going on
    thanks in advnce
    ed

    im freaked over this, as there was important files on the desktop, i really need to get them back


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I've heard of stuff like this happening. The files should still be there but parts of your system is looking for them in the old hd name. Aliases and recently used items won't work. Ignore the Finder sidebar and look in the Users folder (is there a second user that got created?), your music folder should still be there.


  • #3
    eurotrotter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭eurotrotter


    im over here in boston,went down to the apple store where there's a 'genius bar'
    he answered all my questions and sorted this issue.
    when i rename ed the drive, it added the new name as a new user,jsut like in windows, dare i mention the word!
    so he deleted the other user, and kept the original one!
    job done, nothing lost!
    thanks for the reply prof!


    Sad Professor wrote:
    I've heard of stuff like this happening. The files should still be there but parts of your system is looking for them in the old hd name. Aliases and recently used items won't work. Ignore the Finder sidebar and look in the Users folder (is there a second user that got created?), your music folder should still be there.


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