I have a G4 Sawtooth with an aftermarket WD 80GB drive, running Mac OSX.3.9.
I shut the machine down this morning and it seemed to shut down normally.
Later I restarted it and noticed my dock was out of place. At first I thought I'd accidentally logged in to my secondary admin account by mistake (same PW on both accounts), so I logged out and tried again.
I had not made a mistake... something was wrong with my account. All my desktop files were gone, and my documents folder, which I had been encrypting using FileVault, was empty.
I did some quick Internet searching to see if I could repair my username.sparseimage file. I hit on this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25695
And I followed the steps there. This is when I got the "Invalid B-Tree Node Size" error message.
Some more Internet searching, and I tried a few different things:
1) I booted from my OS X.3 (panther) install CD and attempted to repair my HD with Disk Utility. At first, it said there was an error-- sorry to be dim, but I forget exactly what it read-- but then I ran it again and it reported everything was repaired perfectly.
2) I tried again to repair my username.sparseimage file, but again I got the "Invalid B-Tree Node Size" error message.
3) I tried to have my sparseimage file decrypted. I put in my password and my G4 took about 30 minutes to decrypt it. There were no error messages during this procedure. I rebooted, but my documents file was still empty and I could not find any of my other files.
3) I went out and bought DiskWarrior 3.0.3 and ran it. It IDed some errors-- none related to my sparseimage file that I could see-- and repaired my drive some more. I had it replace my directory.
So far none of this has worked.
Am I totally out of luck? Does it matter that I had journaling enabled on the disk?
Any advice/assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance...
I shut the machine down this morning and it seemed to shut down normally.
Later I restarted it and noticed my dock was out of place. At first I thought I'd accidentally logged in to my secondary admin account by mistake (same PW on both accounts), so I logged out and tried again.
I had not made a mistake... something was wrong with my account. All my desktop files were gone, and my documents folder, which I had been encrypting using FileVault, was empty.
I did some quick Internet searching to see if I could repair my username.sparseimage file. I hit on this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25695
And I followed the steps there. This is when I got the "Invalid B-Tree Node Size" error message.
Some more Internet searching, and I tried a few different things:
1) I booted from my OS X.3 (panther) install CD and attempted to repair my HD with Disk Utility. At first, it said there was an error-- sorry to be dim, but I forget exactly what it read-- but then I ran it again and it reported everything was repaired perfectly.
2) I tried again to repair my username.sparseimage file, but again I got the "Invalid B-Tree Node Size" error message.
3) I tried to have my sparseimage file decrypted. I put in my password and my G4 took about 30 minutes to decrypt it. There were no error messages during this procedure. I rebooted, but my documents file was still empty and I could not find any of my other files.
3) I went out and bought DiskWarrior 3.0.3 and ran it. It IDed some errors-- none related to my sparseimage file that I could see-- and repaired my drive some more. I had it replace my directory.
So far none of this has worked.
Am I totally out of luck? Does it matter that I had journaling enabled on the disk?
Any advice/assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance...
