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computer horror
Mar. 26th, 2006 11:35 amI am in a state of shock and upset.
My ibook has wiped everything.
The desktop has reverted to the way it looked when it came from the shop. Brad Pitt is gone, my shortcuts are gone, Firefozx is gone. My internet connection is gone (I type this at my other imac), printer connection gone. The computer keeps asking me to type in my password when I restart.
I forgot to breathe for about ten seconds, then I started looking around for my stuff. The spotlight would not find anything. On my hard disk, in a folder marked 'users', I found my username and in it all my documents, movies, pictures, preferences are stored. I can see them there but I don't know how to activate them.
What I did this morning was: I saw a lot of folders that annoyed me. I can't remember where I saw them, I think in my username folder (the one that has the icon of a house when you click on 'Home'). I moved these folders around. I think they were user folders and I clearly moved my settings to somewhere the computer doesn't recognise. I am shocked that the ibook allows this to happen. I don't know where the settings are stored. I tried moving a few folders around to different locations but I'm frightened that I might bugger things up even worse so I stopped.
AppleCare isn't available on the phone until Monday morning. I am trying to stay calm. I did, after 15 minutes, find David Hewlett in Century Hotel in a folder and watched The Kiss seven times in a row after which I switched off the ibook, determined not to touch it until I could get professional help.
I feel upset! And sort of tremor shocked. And underneath, very pissed off at Apple for allowing this to happen.
Thank God for my decrepit old mammoth of an imac. It can't do much but it doesn't let me down!!
My ibook has wiped everything.
The desktop has reverted to the way it looked when it came from the shop. Brad Pitt is gone, my shortcuts are gone, Firefozx is gone. My internet connection is gone (I type this at my other imac), printer connection gone. The computer keeps asking me to type in my password when I restart.
I forgot to breathe for about ten seconds, then I started looking around for my stuff. The spotlight would not find anything. On my hard disk, in a folder marked 'users', I found my username and in it all my documents, movies, pictures, preferences are stored. I can see them there but I don't know how to activate them.
What I did this morning was: I saw a lot of folders that annoyed me. I can't remember where I saw them, I think in my username folder (the one that has the icon of a house when you click on 'Home'). I moved these folders around. I think they were user folders and I clearly moved my settings to somewhere the computer doesn't recognise. I am shocked that the ibook allows this to happen. I don't know where the settings are stored. I tried moving a few folders around to different locations but I'm frightened that I might bugger things up even worse so I stopped.
AppleCare isn't available on the phone until Monday morning. I am trying to stay calm. I did, after 15 minutes, find David Hewlett in Century Hotel in a folder and watched The Kiss seven times in a row after which I switched off the ibook, determined not to touch it until I could get professional help.
I feel upset! And sort of tremor shocked. And underneath, very pissed off at Apple for allowing this to happen.
Thank God for my decrepit old mammoth of an imac. It can't do much but it doesn't let me down!!