Computer / All Program Settings were reset, help ?
I turned my macbook off at school, and when I turned it back on at home 20 minutes later I noticed my desktop background changed to the default, among closer inspection everything went back to default... dashboard, dock all my photoshop printing settings, I had to re sign the agreement in itunes and move all my songs back into it. everything...but all my files were still on the computer, but in weird places it seemed, the Music and Photos were empty but there were new folders in some weird place on my harddrive that had all the stuff that was originally in them.. I'm confused and want to know if this has happened to anyone else, and if so, if it happened more than once.
Hi Nick,
Did you rename your Home Directory (the Users folder with the House icon)? If you did, the following will guide you step by step on how to get everything back again:
*Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory*
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
Kryten
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