Everything in PowerBook deleted! Why!?

[pjr787]

My PowerBook G4 dropped about 2 ft off my bed onto the floor. Everything is fine, except one thing - I lost every program I downloaded that did not come with the computer. And my screen is brighter. Almost like a brand new computer - but where on earth did everything go? I lost all my music, photos, Skype, etc!!! What happened!?

My iChat is not here...

 

[dukebound85]

weird...are you in a diff user acct?

 

[pjr787]

No, I simply opened the laptop back up and nothing was there except for the basics. I am so furious, I have no clue what happened.

 

[iLog.Genius]

Check the size of the Macintosh HD. See if you have more space available.

 

[..Ryan..]

next time i need a fresh install i know what i'm gonna do, drop my macbook pro 2 ft and save an hour

 

[Darth.Titan]

This complaint smells a bit... odd...

 

[emt1]

This complaint smells a bit... odd...

Agreed. This scenario is impossible.

 

[dukebound85]

Agreed. This scenario is impossible.

yea it really is

if it was your data messed up, you couldnt boot into osx as well

 

[Richard1028]

His install disk was in the drive. The impact of hitting the floor caused it to reboot from the DVD.

End of thread. Next mystery please.

 

[gavin83209]

I highly recommend that you verify the HD in Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/), repairing from the OS CD if necessary and check the size of the disk. Is it any different at all than it should be?

To the best of my knowledge, there is no total erase switch built into any version of Mac OS X from the Public Beta up to Snow Leopard or any version of the classic OS back to the pre System 6 era, before PowerBooks.

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

This makes no sense, unless your HD is slowly corrupting itself away...

 

[emt1]

This makes no sense, unless you're HD is slowly corrupting itself away...

SEE MY SIG!

 

[Tallest Skil]

SEE MY SIG!

Please review the rules. Correcting someone's grammar when it does not detract from the understanding of the sentence is frowned upon.

 

[emt1]

Please review the rules. Correcting someone's grammar when it does not detract from the understanding of the sentence is frowned upon.

But... it did detract from the meaning of the sentence. I thought he was calling the OP a hard drive!

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

But... it did detract from the meaning of the sentence. I thought he was calling the OP a hard drive!

Sue me.

I had just woken up from my post dinner nap

I honestly even went back and changed it to "you're"....lmao f'in a...

 

[mikes70mustang]

SEE MY SIG!

Really, its a internet forum where mac geeks argue with each other....not a college lit. paper.

 

[alphaod]

My PowerBook G4 dropped about 2 ft off my bed onto the floor. Everything is fine, except one thing - I lost every program I downloaded that did not come with the computer. And my screen is brighter. Almost like a brand new computer - but where on earth did everything go? I lost all my music, photos, Skype, etc!!! What happened!?

My iChat is not here...

Try to do a permission repair, and reset the PRAM.

 

[pjr787]

Thanks everyone for your help. I figured it out - a new user name was created. It was a user name with no name, meaning the user name was blank, and when i clicked on it, all my files were there. I guess when it dropped, it hit buttons to make a new user name? Oh well, it's all there now.... sorry for confusing everyone -haha! God bless!

Patrick