Data Loss following 10.6 Upgrade - HELP!!!

I ran through an upgrade to 10.6 from 1.5.8 on my 4-month old MacBook Pro 17"... everything went perfectly through the install with no issues until...
I logged in and suddenly realized that I was missing 60% of the items that were previously in my Desktop folder (shortcuts, files, folders). I then realized that some of the folders that were still there were missing subfolders...
All told, I'm missing somewhere 30-50GB of data that has just vanished! What I have done:
1) Rebooted
2) Ran a disk verify (came back fine)
3) Ran a repair on permissions (no issues found)
4) Checked my trashcan...
5) Called Apple tech support and rebooted into safe mode
6) Used spotlight to search for any sign of the missing data
7) Browsed around in terminal and looked for hidden files
From a file system perspective - this data doesn't exist! From what I can tell the only data i'm missing were files that were underneath the Desktop folder - everything in Documents, Photos, and other locations on my hard drive are all intact, making this extremely odd... In addition, since i'm missing not just items directly under my desktop but items in folders on my Desktop 1 and 2 levels down, this guarantees my mind that it wasn't an accident where I somehow deleted a bunch of items!
Has anyone else experienced something remotely similar following an upgrade?
Does anyone have any technical ideas on recovering this data (or third party tools)?
Much appreciated,
Keith

Looked with baseline while running as root - no dice... The reported size free on my HD right now is 155GB. I found the OSX 10.6 install.log under /var/log - my initial free size prior to the upgrade was:
Aug 31 18:20:17 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Initial free size : 65.38 GB
All told I'm down 90GB - perhaps 7-10GB of that is the smaller size of Snow Leopard. That still leaves 80GB unaccounted for.
I dug through the install.log and there are several items that concern me. The first is that it apparently creates a new set of Users to match your original installation and then 'migrates' all of the data to those users, as evidenced below... NOTE the 2nd to last line:
Aug 31 18:45:43 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Finalize disk "Macintosh HD" for OS Installation
Aug 31 18:45:43 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Finalizing Disk for OS Install
Aug 31 18:45:48 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Cleaning up mutable product directory.
Aug 31 18:45:48 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Removed mutable product
Aug 31 18:45:48 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Importing users and settings to new system
Aug 31 18:45:48 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Starting post-upgrade migration /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Recovered Items -> /Volumes/Macintosh HD
ault/config/KerberosKDC.plist
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:48:35.728 Mac OS X Installer[137:15303] 2009-08-31 18:48:35 -0700 -[SMMigrateSystemInfo finishKerberosSetup]:1019 Kerberos setup for OSInstall from /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Recovered Items (10.5) to /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:48:35.729 Mac OS X Installer[137:8c87] 2009-08-31 18:48:35 -0700 -[SMTaskManager _launchTaskSync:]:32 Launching tool /usr/sbin/chroot ((
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: "/Volumes/Macintosh HD",
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: "/usr/libexec/configureLocalKDC",
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: "--source",
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Recovered Items",
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: "--source-version",
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: "10.5",
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: "--plist"
Aug 31 18:48:35 localhost Unknown[88]: ))
Aug 31 18:48:48 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:48:48.188 Mac OS X Installer[137:15303] 2009-08-31 18:48:48 -0700 -[SMMigrateFiles postProcess]:214 Starting postProcessing Files.
Aug 31 18:48:48 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:48:48.189 Mac OS X Installer[137:15303] 2009-08-31 18:48:48 -0700 -[SMMigrateFiles postProcess]:224 (I) Kext cache is NOT up to date on /Volumes/Macintosh HD.
Aug 31 18:48:48 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:48:48.189 Mac OS X Installer[137:19b6b] 2009-08-31 18:48:48 -0700 -[SMTaskManager _launchTaskSync:]:32 Launching tool /usr/sbin/chroot ((
Aug 31 18:48:48 localhost Unknown[88]: "/Volumes/Macintosh HD",
Aug 31 18:48:48 localhost Unknown[88]: "/usr/sbin/kextcache",
Aug 31 18:48:48 localhost Unknown[88]: "-system-caches"
Aug 31 18:48:48 localhost Unknown[88]: ))
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:49:13.324 Mac OS X Installer[137:1a01f] 2009-08-31 18:49:13 -0700 -[SMTaskManager _launchTaskSync:]:32 Launching tool /usr/sbin/kextcache ((
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: "-update-volume",
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: ))
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: /Volumes/Macintosh HD: no supported helper partitions to update.
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:49:13.405 Mac OS X Installer[137:15303] 2009-08-31 18:49:13 -0700 -[SMMigrateFiles postProcess]:258 Done postProcessing Files.
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:49:13.557 Mac OS X Installer[137:15303] (SleepLeo) machine ok to sleep
Aug 31 18:49:13 localhost Unknown[88]: 2009-08-31 18:49:13.558 Mac OS X Installer[137:15303] 2009-08-31 18:49:13 -0700 -[SMMigrateEngine(Private) startEngine]:580 Migration took 197.237245 seconds long. ( Copied 40963.55MB of 40963.55MB )... That's 207.69MB/s overall...
Aug 31 18:49:14 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Migration Engine Returned an Error Condition.
Aug 31 18:49:17 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Saving preserved user data to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Previous System
Thoughts anyone?

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If you upgraded directly from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, and never had Versions in Pages 4, can you still revert to the oldest version in Pges 5 and get a Pages 4 document?
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[DATA LOSS] I closed the Tab Groups and all my tabs dissapeared. How can I recover the tabs in Firefox 26? Would you please just delete this feature?

Thank-you in advance for reading all of this.
A slip of the mouse in trying to return to the left-most tab caused the tab groups feature to take over the window. I completely failed to comprehend what I was looking at and closed the thing by clicking the x because I damn sure didn't want what I was looking at. Undo close group? Of course not, I didn't want a group in the first place. Hey! My tabs are completely gone now! So in just a few steps all of which seemed innocent, I have lost all but ten of the tabs that were open, and those were only the most recent ten (and actually older tabs would have been more valueable than newer so insult on top of injury).
I don't think increasing the number of undoable tab closures is the answer. I think getting rid of the tab groups feature all together is the best way to go. I seem to have lost all the tabs I had open, irretrievably, and some of them had been open for WEEKS so they can't be reopened from history.
The tab groups feature is a data loss bug. Please remove it from the UX completely. If you have to figure out a way to grandfather people who actually have a tab group, fine but don't further vex me with it, please.
The reason this catastrophe has occurred is that your feature, was so discoverable that I activated it by mistake, and the UI after that had to be learned on the spot, yet was too complicated to learn. You really should withdraw it until you can figure out how to keep the UI for it from causing data loss such as I have experienced this morning.
Also, there may be other questions on this feature which are from a certain point of view the same as this one. It's hard for me to tell for sure. None of them had a true resolution so that's why I posted this one, also I'm seeking a specific fix, removal of the offending feature.
Why remove the feature? Because if I allow in my discussion the possibility of retaining it, it will stick around in its present and dangerous form until your team is done bikeshedding the new form it should take. Instead I want you to delete the feature and then require its champion to convince you that a new incarnation won't cause data loss before you allow it back in.
Fellow users, if you know of a way to recover all 50 lost tabs from an "undo close tab group incident", I would be grateful for that advice, but I would still believe the feature should be deleted. Some of the tabs have been retained for months so digging them out of the history is not practical.

I am not 100% certain but I am fairly sure development of this tab feature has ceased and it is likely to be deprecated. I am even less sure what the replacement will be.
Thus forum is not the place for discussing development issues or feature requests. (Developers do not use this site)
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I have not tried this and am not even using Windows at present but the tabs groups are stored as entries in the sessionstore.js files. Firefox has such a file plus sometimes numbered copies and a backup copy. Firefox will have re-writen these files but I suppose there is a posibility the Windows OS may have kept copies.
* see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Previous-versions-of-files-frequently-asked-questions
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sessionstore.js Note the files are kept within the Firefox Profile
** Firefox Button -> Help -> Troubleshooting [open profile] (or some thing similar) is one method of locating the profile.
Find and backup any current sessionstore.js file. Consider also bookmark or otherwise recording anything you have open. Now find any previous versions and try putting them in Firefox's profile before restarting it.

Data loss Lacie 500GB external drive_ disk utility changed partition!

Details of problem. I have a 500GB Lacie mini hub HDD which is used with an iMac angle poise. Recently it has been playing up- unable to access folders/files etc. and since I know the PSU fails on these items (capacitors fail -5V and 12V go haywire- already fixed another one - I have a 320GB with a mac mini setup) I removed unit from the imac and connected in place of the 320GB lacie on the mac mini, using the known good PSU. The iMac is running latest 10.4 and mac mini is running latest snow leopard 10.6.1
The Lacie spun up and mounted OK and I was able to access all files folders with no issue, so since I was keen to make sure it was 'fixed' I ran disk utility. It ran and said it verified and then I realised I hadn't run repair so re-did this. Big mistake!
It did the same run and said no problems found, but it then said something like updating partition! Horrified I waited and it seemed to finish or had finished straight away. Not sure. I looked at folders and yes main 2 items in place, but nothing showing below this. ****. It got worse. I ejected and tried to reconnect and low and behold it says drive needs formatting now. Disk utility even shows this 500GB as having 2.2TB of space, which I see in other posts is another issue.
I have important data backed up elsewhere, but there are a large number of files I do not have copies of and suspect there is a way to recover these. I have since seen all the 'data loss' guest account issues and wonder if this is yet another bug in snow leopard.
Have tried running Techtool Pro 5.0.6 to see if it can see the data but its not seeing anything. Will try Diskwarrior and others, but may well shelve to see if apple gets an os update released for data loss issues.
Any thoughts on how to recover? Anyone with a similar issue? I am pretty certain this is not a failed hard drive as it sounds 100% normal. Thanks for any help or guidance.

Thanks for all the comments recieved. V.K. made me re-evaluate what I had proved or not. I was fairly certain (not 100%) that the drive mech was OK, because the psu had failed, but should have proved drive mech was actually OK. So I removed the mech (as USB abd firewire can't do SMART etc.) and hooked up to an old G4 Powermac. I then found that the SMART verified, but had forgotten the 128GB limitation on older macs. So removed and got a PC to hook it up and run latest IBM_Hitachi drive fitness and other diags. (its a Deskstar HD and I have had almost zero issue with these drives over the years.) It checks out fine, so I was correct in my initial thoughts, only the PSU was faulty.
So back to my initial suspicions that Snow Leopard or disk utility has screwed things up, maybe a bug, maybe not. And I did run verify first and it said it was OK, only when I re-ran the repair did it then do a "partition update" (or whatever it said - should have done a screen capture - searched apple but can't find listing of all mesgs avail. must be in developers site I expect). So I am back at looking at how to recover, if at all possible, but as Alsoft have said this is not something Diskwarrior can do directly. Files must still be there just partiton map is now in a ... needs to be initialised mode. Not that I will do that.
So I guess summary is possible bug/funny in 10.6 and/or disk utility.
sounds like I will be contacting Alsoft now
may read up on partition map damage first, so I get a better picture of whats involved.
Cheers and thanks for all the help/ideas.
BTW - been using macs_pcs for decades now and helping friends & family fix things as and when. This is first time needed to post on forum as always found answers to questions I had previously. Must remember the old adage of not jumping onto new technology until it has bedded down I bet if I had hooked up to the old G4 Powermac I wouldn't be in this position. Thanks again.

Missing data in ap_check_stocks after R12 upgrade

Hello,
We are currently in version R12.1.2 and I have an existing query from R11 which gets data from ap_check_stocks table. I am however not able to find any data on ap_check_stocks after R12 upgrade. Has this table been discontinued? I do not find any link in metalink which says that as well...
The join used in the query is between ap_check_stocks and ap_checks is ap_checks.check_stock_id = ap_check_stocks.check_stock_id... Has something changed in R12?
Please help!
Ramya

You can find AP_CHECK_STOCKS synonym in R12 and the base object is AP.AP_CHECK_STOCKS_ALL table.
Please refer to eTRM for details.
SYNONYM: APPS.AP_CHECK_STOCKS
http://etrm.oracle.com/pls/et1211d9/etrm_pnav.show_object?c_name=AP_CHECK_STOCKS&c_owner=APPS&c_type=SYNONYM
TABLE: AP.AP_CHECK_STOCKS_ALL
http://etrm.oracle.com/pls/et1211d9/etrm_pnav.show_object?c_name=AP_CHECK_STOCKS_ALL&c_owner=AP&c_type=TABLE
Thanks,
Hussein

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