Everything reset itself. EVERYTHING

I tried to connect to a server using AirPort and wasn't successful. But that’s not the problem; the problem is everything reverted to original factory settings. It almost appears that I logged out of my user account while still logged in. Because all of my files are in the user folder in the HD; but they aren't where they should be. Has anyone ever heard of this happening, and if so how did you fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Exactly where are those files that aren't where they used to be?
Hard to say right now if it's a SW or HW problem, but at this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, then when the prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.

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My Iphone 4 recently reset itself to factory mode and I lost everything. I managed to get most of my music back but I was wondering if there was a way to credit money that I spent on itunes cards for things in the games I purchased?

My iphone 4 recently reset itself to factory settings and I lost everything...contacts, pictures, itunes, apps. I managed ON MY OWN thanks to NO HELP from apple to figure out how to restore most of my apps and some of my ITUNES music. However I lost all of my games standings and that was a lot of money that I spent on upgrading games and such and quite a few of my songs. Is there away to research what i purchased and maybe get credited or something?

Connect the iPod to your computer and let it charge for a couple of hours. The try to backup the iPod
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
Then
Photos
- If they are in an iPod backup then restore an iPod, iPhone or iPad from that backup. See the restore topic of:
iOS: How to back up
- If they are in the iTunes backup then get them from the backup by:
Recover iPhone, iPad or iPod photos from backups with Picturescue
or
iPhone Backup Extractor for Windows and Mac
- If you used PhotoStream then try getting them from your PhotoStream. See that topic of:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
To try to make your iPod work see the following. It may end up erasing the iPod:
Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Mac OS 10.4 reset itself

Hi,
I was using my PowerBook G4 today like I always do. I was downloading some new icons from the apple website and I was writing a paper for school. I was pasting some of these new icons onto folders, when my customize buttons on the Finder dissappeared. I thought the computer was just having a small problem, so I restarted it.
When I did that, the entire OS was changed. The dock was reset back to factory settings (except instead of the icons appearing, they were question marks). My iTunes library was erased, as was my iPhoto library (and all of my other applications were reset). My edits to the Finder (such as backgrounds) were set back to white, and edits inside of applications were undone (for instance, my bookmarks in Safari were reset back to factory settings).
What happened? And is there a way to recover the settings I had put into the computer? It didn't delete my MS Word and Excel files, but it seems to have deleted or reset everything else. I have had no problems with my computer before. Nothing like this has ever happened to it before. Thanks for your help in advance.
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Update:
After digging around more, I've found most of my files. My iTunes music is all there for instance. However, I have to reimport the files into iTunes to get them to play.
So, my question is now... what happened? Why did my computer reset itself, but not delete my files? And how do I keep this from happening again in the future?

Phone resets itself to January 1980

For the past five days or so, my iPhone 5 (os 7.0.4) will arbitrarily reset itself to January 5, 1980; this happens only at home. The phone could be charging, or not charging. It's completely arbitrary.
Upon a hard shutdown (home key/power off) and restart, the date and time will reset itself back to current.
I've got a visit to the Mac store later today, but I'm curious if anyone else has had this issue, what it was and how it was solved.
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I am having a similar issue with my iPhone and my son is having the exact same issues on his Droid HTC and it took me two people and nearly two hours to convince those Verizon folks it isn't the device. I am almost certain it has to do with the local tower near our home. My son went to work which was about 30 miles away and he didn't have one issue. As soon as he got home, he was back at 11/15/2013 even though it was 12/14/2013. The problem is intermittent, all of a sudden everything works and a few hours later, I can't text, receive texts, calls go directly to voicemail so if it is one of those annoying people who thinks I am just going to see their missed call and immediately call them back-well they are surprised and ticked off when I don't. Can't call someone back when I don't know they called which is a darn shame since I use my cell 100% for work and I am self employed. Right now it is 1:23am on 12/15/13 in California but my phone says it is 11/16/13 at 10:18am. I tried call my cell from my landline and it goes right to voicemail. I type a text and hit send and nothing is in the history but at some point it does go through but never shows up on the history, annoying especially when you are trying to communicate with your teen and I can't remember exactly what I wrote. I use my phone as my watch, my alarm clock, etc. so that's an issue.... And the worst part is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't play Candy Crush Saga because it says I have to wait over 42,000 minutes, thats about a month for those who are interest. And yes, my son is having every single issue once he got home from work, including the exact date and time error I have but yet Verizon still thinks it is my device. Really? I was told there was a ticket established to escalate/solve this issue but I have my doubts based on my interactions and the fact it took me two hours and two people to convince it wasn't my device before they would take this issue to the next level. The Verizon folks are getting paid for that time but I am not and I am paying Verizon. What's wrong with this picture?

My iBook is reseting itself

I started up my iBook G4 one morning and my documents and programs were still there, but none of my settings were there and my programs had been reseted, I lost all my iPhoto pictures, iTunes stuff, aim settings, etc. Then even hour or so, safari resets itself again, and I lose my bookmarks and everything. What do I do?

Your short name is the same name as the folder with the house icon by default. If you're unsure which of the other home folders was originally yours, look for folders which have the standard folder icon but don't have a red circle in the lower right. If you find one named Shared, it's not your original home folder, but is intended for files which need to be available to all user accounts. Look in any other folder matching the criteria for your user data.
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Ipod Nano resetting itself

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me with my problem, whenever I plug in my nano to re-charge my battery, it would reset itself. What should i do about this? Is there somewhere specific I should go to report my problem?! thank you for who ever can give me any feed back on this
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Well I seem to have solved the problem I was having with my iPod. I tried updating the ipod's software and in the updater program the software version was listed as 'unknown' so I restored the ipod to its factory default settings and it seems to be working properly again.
The restore deletes the entire contents of the iPod so I had to copy some files before starting and I also had to go into the iTunes preferences and enable Contacts and Calendar syncing and as well as having to 'enable' playlists and everything else from the iPod's main menu.
Hopefully all is now well with my iPod. If it plays up again I will post here.

Xperia automatically reset itself?

Hi, I am very very mad that this happened to me twice. First one was my sony xperia TL automatically reset itself and deleted all memories, including SD card. I insisted to give Sony another try with xperia Z3 and thought that this could have been fixed since the other phone was too old. Bu it was unbelievable that this could happen again. Now I lost everything in the phone. Does anyone here had the same problem? I swear I will never and never use sony phone again. Anyone here know what happened? Thanks.

I've seen this before, perhaps someone has access to your Gmail password/account and have used MyXperia or Android Device Manager to factory reset your phone.

Iphone 4S Resetting itself?

Two nights ago my iphone reset itself. I didn't lose anything, but it reset everything back to factory settings. My volume was reset, siri, as well as getting popups on how to use certain things on an iphone. It was like pulling it out of the box. Is there a virius or should I reset it back to factory settings then re-add everything? This is the first it's ever happened.

Hello Duckweed,
The resource below will explain what to do if your iPhone keeps restarting. Was your iPhone set to automatically sync with iCloud? If so, you may have a fairly recent backup to fall back on if a restore is needed.
If your iOS device restarts, displays the Apple logo, or powers off while you're using it - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203899
Hope that helps...
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Dock Display resets itself; Overheating; Loosing Bookmarks w/ Firefox

Hello,
I need help and was wondering if anybody might have an idea of what is going on with my iBook which is 2 years old. Up until a week ago I had no problems whatsoever with the laptop and all of a sudden things seem very strange...
1) I am loosing battery power very quickly. The charge holds, if I am not using the internet, about 1 hour.
2) I lost all my bookmarks in firefox for no reason. I started saving bookmarks again but the next day, they were gone again.
3) The Dock is resetting itself to the original view every time I start up the laptop. I save icons in the dock but they disappear the next time I turn the laptop on. What I find interesting though is that the wallpaper stays the same. Do the dock settings and the wallpaper have different memory?
4) The laptop is overheating and the fan is blowing almost constantly even though I am using the laptop on a table (hard surface; yes, I read the posts).
I spoke to Tech Support and they had me take out the battery and press the "power on" button for 6 seconds (sorry, I forgot the term that they used for this process). It seemed to help while the Tech was on the phone but the next day, I had the same problem.
Can it be that I need a new battery or does anybody think there might be more wrong with it?
Thank you to all who respond.

Glad the genius bar was able to help you!
Would agree with the erase and install once you get your important data backed up. It will get rid of any corrupted software and cobwebs and make your machine seem like new again. This would be a good opportunity to gain a little hard drive space by doing a custom install and opting to not install all the languages and printer drivers you will never use.
It would not surprise me if your overheating problem might get better or even go away after an erase and install. I don't know which model iBook you have, and I understand that some of them do run hot, but it has been my experience that my iBook usually runs cool and the fan very seldom comes on.
When I mentioned Activity Monitor, I was wondering if you might have had a runaway application going on in the background. One time I was just doing email and the computer got hot and the fan came on--and the CPU showed 85% use, which was way more than my usual few percent. In view of your battery problems and overheating, I wondered if you might have had the same sort of thing going on. Here is the article about this:
Runaway applications can shorten battery runtime:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304882
Most people don't need File Vault. If you do have a few sensitive documents on your laptop that you want to be secured in case it ever gets stolen, you can use an encrypted disk image instead. Just go to Disk Utility and click on "New Image". It will create a file that you can protect with a good password. For most users, File Vault is more trouble than it's worth.
I think once you do the erase and install, everything will be working as it should again.
Good luck, and thanks for the star!

Mail Reset itself and delete signatures etc

Hi
I am using ML. The mail is playing with me... this is flustrating now...
It resets itself somehow...
My mails OK, everything works. But everytime I made signatures they will be dissapear soon.
Also the order of the accounts that I made in the left panel will be resets alphabetical order...
I don't know why these thing happens and even when they happenes. It's not after restart or something. Even if I don't swich off the macbook this is happening.
If someone has same problem and know the solution now please let me know.
Or let me know if it is a BUG or something and I/we need to wait for a upgrade from apple.
Too much problem is coming up newadays from Apple. I don't expect these from Apple.
Thank you so much.

Hi Mike,
Are your other APPs there, and your Dock the same?
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.

Macbook resetting itself when the battery dies.

Hi all I am really hoping someone can shed some light on what’s happening to my Looney MacBook.
About two days ago I forgot to put it on charge when the battery was on 3% and it shut down, so I turned it back on when I had connected it to the power like normal and expected all to be okay. The computer had completely reset itself, time, date, Internet passwords, background everything. I put everything back to how it should and tried to connect to Facebook. The webpage was just the raw webpage, without its style sheet (is the only way I can describe it). So I was like okay that’s weird, and normally after a few refreshes it goes back to normal but it didn’t. It wasn’t because the Internet connection was slow either.
The next day it was still the same, deleted the cache reset everything on safari and restarted which seemed to fix it. I have just let the battery run down again (bad I know) and it did it all over again.
So I am turning to here to figure out what is going on! I hope it can be fixed, as I love my mac too much!
Appreciate any help!
Thanks

The next day it was still the same, deleted the cache reset everything on safari and restarted which seemed to fix it. I have just let the battery run down again (bad I know) and it did it all over again.
If you love your Mac, stop running its battery down the the point that it shuts off.

IPAD resetting itself and will not activate after restore

Hi
I got an iPAD 3G+WIFI just over a month ago and everything was working fine. all of a sudden it just started resetting itself. I got a message on screen saying I should restore the iPAD and a strange error saying "iPhone cannot call" (or something like that) so I connected to iTunes, backup, and restored. The problem is that after restore the iPAD won't activate and iTunes puts up an error saying "We're sorry, iPAD is damaged. Please take to the closest Apple store". (I tried all sorts of forced restart and restore that I found in various forums but it just won't activate)
Now...the additional problem... I got this as a gift from the US, but I live in Malta (Europe) and the closest Apple store is basically in another country!! The local Apple agent isn't licensed for servicing iPADs yet.
1. Can this be solved via software?
2. Is it possible to ship back via post?
Thanks

I sounds like a hardware problem to me. I suspect you can send it back but first your typically need and RMA number which you get from Apple. Have you asked the locale store of how to send it back? Since it seem that it is within the 90 day free telephone support period you should be able to call Apple in the USA for shipping instruction. Go to the USA Apple site to find contact information.

Resetting itself?

ever since ive had my tbolt ive had nothing short of problems ive called and emailed about them
all now im getting problems were my tbolt will just reset itself no matter what i would be doing
i could just unlock it or be in settings or just swipe over my pages or even if its just laying down
somewhere it just resets itself im being told by a rep at this moment that its part of the functionality
of the phone to do that my jaw dropped to hear that i just said thank you thats all i wanted to know
so if i go to replace my tbolt im just going to be getting the same effect well im into 30 days having
my tbolt just wishing i should of gotten another phone instead now im stuck with a brick that its
functionality so called self resetting here on my desk of a phone...i mean the 1st week with it
was great worked flawlessly. I know everything there is to know about android ive owned several
devices since i been with verizon. ive unchecked the news and stocks from syncing ive turned
down the brightness so low its hard to read when your outside. dont get me wrong each device
is different with there users... im at my wits end with this

droidsw wrote:
Why not start over? Wipe the phone. Do a hard reset and do not re-install any apps. If that doesn't resolve the issues, stay on the phone with Verizon until you find someone that can help you.
As for Watchdog, I found it annoying.
If I have the app market open, it alerts that the market is using a lot of resources. If I am Swyping, it alerts that Swype is using a lot of resources and on and on.
And to top it off, my phone had not rebooted on it's own since the Dec-Jan timeframe. I had installed Watchdog and nothing else recently and experienced a reboot. I un-installed Watchdog and haven't had another one.
I have never had watchdog do that to me when I was tracking apps. I never had it installed longer than a few hours as it would catch apps running that shouldn't be running processes. When I open the market it has never told me it was using a lot of resources though... That's a new one for me... Did you have it setup realtime tracking and have it set to "agressive"? When I setup mine I have it realtime and have the middle selection.

8GB nano resetting itself continually - unable to stop it

Woke up this morning to find my two-week old nano continually resetting itself in its dock. It's now completely unusable - it resets, comes back, 5-10 seconds later it resets again. I've tried everything to stop it from doing this but nothing works. Cannot do a 'restore' as the nano resets itself before the process completes. Cannot even switch the nano off, so now it's just sitting on my desk resetting itself over and over and over again... which it will presumably do for the next 24 hours or so until the battery wears out.
Any ideas on how to stop it, or has my nano bit the dust..? Worked flawlessly for the past two weeks or so (apart from certain playlists not syncing, covered elsewhere...).

Honestly it sounds like a short within the ipod to me. From everything I've read, it seems that the entire charging system for the Ipod is extremely ahh, "delicate" I guess is the word.
The circuitry protection for power spikes and brownouts seems to be non-existent in the Ipod, and the power grid itself seems to be extremely delicate.

Illustrator 2014: Scratch disk preference keeps resetting itself

Hello Illustrator community.
I have recently noticed that in my Illustrator CC 2014 18.0.0, the scratch disk preference setting keeps resetting itself. I'm using a MacBook pro with a single SSD, but I have an external Lacie Thunderbolt SSD that I got to use as the scratch disk for Illustrator and Photoshop. The problem is that if I set the scratch preference to use the external as the primary and my startup as the secondary, everything is fine and it let's me know that the change will take effect once it's reopened. Upon reopening Illustrator I double check and it's saved, and everything works fine. But if I happen to open Illustrator without my external attached, when I check the scratch preference, it will revert to using the startup as the main scratch location, which I understand. But the next time illustrator is opened with my external connected, the scratch setting is still defaulted to using the startup disk. At that point I would need to change the preference, close illustrator and then reopen to make sure Illustrator is using the external as scratch.
So for some reason it's not saving my preference for the scratch disk, while all other preferences seem to be saved fine. In Photoshop CC 2014, I can set the scratch preference, which works fine, close Photoshop and reopen without the external attached and then close and reopen with the external reattached, and it will remember my preference for having the external as the primary scratch.
Is this just the way Illustrator is meant to work, or is this possibly a bug? Anyone have experience with this?
I used Illustrator CC 17.x.x before this but didn't notice if it operated the same way, since at that time I didn't have a dedicated scratch disk to use.
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The last thing Adobe AI does upon a quit is to write the existing state of the preferences file to disk. If it is using the local HD as scratch, then that is what is recorded in the preferences.

Why does my ipod automatically reset itself when im listening to it?!

I will be clicking through songs and all of a sudden it just resets itself...and also if im fast forwarding through a song it also just resets it self.....everything it up to date so what is the problem
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You could reset iPod when scrolling trough songs very quickly, you might have pressed -MENY- by mistake while scrolling. Do not give Your iPod too much commands in same time, i'd bug myself if somebody push me round too much. It's a good machine but do not over do it.
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