Files. settings, and almost everything has disappeared
I had my had drive replaced about 2 months ago. Everything seems to have been working fine until now. A few days ago I quit firefox because it froze. When I re-opened firefox, all of my settings were gone, bookmarked websites etc. as if I had just installed it new. Then I later noticed, when I tried signing into ichat, the same thing had occurred. It was as if I had just installed the program starting from new.
This morning I noticed certain system preference setting like my hot corners, had gone away. I decided to restart the macbook. After the restart, Desktop settings and files on desktop were gone. Then I went to my music folder, all 2000 songs I have were gone. Everything saved on my hard drive is gone, except for 1 file that was created 2 nights ago, and few settings / programs.
Anyone know what's going on?
Your user folder has been renamed. It's still there. Search this forum and you'll see how to address the problem.
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