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After upgrade from leopard to lion, all data is lost. Help!
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How did you upgrade?
Do you have a backup?
Have you looked at the Pictures and Music folders to see, if your data is still in there?
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Do you have a backup?
Have you looked at the Pictures and Music folders to see, if your data is still in there?
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Is the rest of your data on the drive or is none of your personal documents to be found?
Were all of these items in the default location under Snow Leopard (Macintosh HD\Users\User Name\Documents, Music, Pictures, ect...)?
I would look in those folders under your current user account to see if any of your data is there.
Were all of these items in the default location under Snow Leopard (Macintosh HD\Users\User Name\Documents, Music, Pictures, ect...)?
I would look in those folders under your current user account to see if any of your data is there.
I upgraded by buying it from the apple store. No, stupidly enough, I don't have a backup.
The folders are empty. The only thing that seems to have transferred is my contacts.
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I'm not sure if the items were in default or not. All of the folders are empty except contacts.
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No. How do I do this?
Always backup your data, it's so easy, inexpensive and invaluable it's hard to imagine not doing it.
If / when your HDD fails you'll be prepared.
* cheap = an external HD
If / when your HDD fails you'll be prepared.
* cheap = an external HD
That's kind of an important point. AFAIK, there is no "upgrade" from Leopard. You have to erase everything entirely and install from scratch. It will upgrade from Snow Leopard though.
If you're not too comfortable with all of this troubleshooting, I would make a reservation at the Genius Bar of the store that you bought the upgrade from and let them see what happened.
I think I might do just that. I'm afraid of doing something that will delete everything. It's a lot to lose. Thanks a bunch.
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Yep. Pretty sure it was an upgrade. There are two under my name, one with just first name, and one first and last, but both are empty. There's another listed that is my ex-husband's name, but I can't access that one.