I think I just lost everything...

I accidentally unplugged my external harddrive while i was working on a project. I immediately plugged it back in and the project seemed to be ok. I closed the project and re-opened it and was met with this message:
The file "__" can not be found {or something like that} and I could click OK or ignore all. There were many.
Now my project is blank, and everything I had done lies in the trash. Is there any way to bring it back the way it was? I had been working on it and saving it just fine.

David is referring to the backup file iMovie stores inside the project. Here a description of how you can (hopefully) recover the project:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2318851&#2318851
Karl

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Urgent - I think I just lost everything on my MacBook Pro. Hard drive won't mount and booting up shows "no" symbol

My MacBook Pro (13" mid 2010, Yosemite) doesn't feel like booting up. It gives me the no symbol after the progress bar is about 1/4 of the way through.
Additionally, it won't mount in the Recovery HD. It shows up as disk0s6 and clicking Mount does nothing. Can't seem to mount it in the Terminal either.
The disk partition is encrypted, so unfortunately I can't pull the hard drive out of my MBP and pull the stuff off it with my PC.
I tried First Aid - "no problems found" (such LIES!)
I tried PRAM - didn't work
I tried Verbose Mode - went fine for the first minute, then hung for a while before returning to the "No" screen and in the bottom right corner "Still waiting for root drive".
I tried SMC - didn't work
Most recently I did install rEFInd - which is a boot manager. I was afraid it screwed up the EFI partition -seemingly not, as it will boot to Recovery and external drives.
The data still seems to be there, but the OS is having trouble accessing it.
Do you know what would be causing this? I really need that data back :/

It appears I can unlock the partition, using diskutil via the Terminal (diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume <UUID> -passphrase <passphrase>).
However the volume doesn't have a UUID. It lists the partition type as "FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF" (which is a UUID) but using that doesn't work.
Additionally when I use diskutil coreStorage list, it comes up with nothing. I'm at a loss here, the partition doesn't even know it's own UUID or that it's encrypted. It seems quite damaged to me but I don't have the slightest idea why, as I CAN boot to it and enter the password but it will stop at the "no" symbol part of the way along.

Firfox 4 - can we not save TABS when closing?? I just lost everything!

I installed Firefox 4, had several TABs open before the upgrade. When Firefox 4 opened I had all the TABs. When I wanted to close Firefox there was no SAVE button, so I lost everything.
Did a system restore and now when I click the Firefox icon nothing happens...cannot open Firefox at all.
Thanks Mozilla....

One of the changes in Firefox 4: '''''by default''''' Firefox 4 does not display the warning message when closing multiple tabs, but it can be turned back on by changing some preferences. ''Note: This was a decision by the developers. On this forum, we are all '''uncompensated volunteers''' here to help other users. The developes/employees of Mozilla/Firefox rarely, if ever visit here.''
#Type '''''about:config''''' in the URL/Location/Address bar and press the Enter key
#Accept the warning message (promise to be careful)
#The preferences page/list will open
#Filter = '''''browser.tabs.warnOnClose'''''
#If its value is set to false, double-click on it (in the lower panel) to toggle its value to true
#Repeat steps 4 and 5 for these following 3 preferences also:
#*'''''browser.warnOnQuit'''''
#*'''''browser.warnOnRestart'''''
#*'''''browser.showQuitWarning'''''
#**Note: last pref is new in Firefox 4b12, may need to add (boolean)
#**Info/Instruction for using '''''about:config''''': http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
#See:
#*https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/785169
#*http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2105039&p=10434467&sid=fd2a35945bb2c633687f7b50d8c53989
#*http://blog.zpao.com/post/3174360617/about-that-quit-dialog
 
 
'''Other issues needing your attention'''
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*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.0.1
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**Security uptate version 10.0 r153 released 2011-03-21
#'''''Check your plugin versions''''' on either of the following links':
#*http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
#*https://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
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#*From within your existing Adobe Reader ('''if you have it already installed'''):
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#**Use either of the links below:
#***https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+the+Adobe+Reader+plugin+with+Firefox ''(click on "Installing and updating Adobe Reader")''
#***''Also see Download link''': http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
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#'''Update the [[Managing the Flash plugin|Flash]] plugin''' to the latest version.
#*Download and SAVE to your Desktop so you can find the installer later
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#*Click on the installer you just downloaded and install
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#*Start Firefox and check your version again or test the installation by going back to the download link below
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I think I just lost my whole music library, help!

Hello everyone! First off, i'm in my late 60's and have worked in maual labor my entire life. I'm really trying hard to increase my knowledge of technical devices. I own a classic iPod, 80GB, model #MB029LL and version 1.1.2 PC. I'm also running windows on my computer. (Gateway) 4+ years ago, I spent weeks adding over 2,000 songs to my iPod, from CD's. Shortly after, major and limiting health problems occurred and my iPod sat in a drawer for 3 years. During that time, my computer fried and the hard drive was toast. Health is much better now, and we have a new computer. So all my songs were on my iPod and i was able to connect it to iTunes. I was going to get help via apple support but they wanted $29. Being the stubborn man I am, I decided that i could figure out how to transfer all my songs from my iPod to my iTunes account. I back up my iPhone to a iTunes page so i thought this was the correct site. I tried to transfer the songs to iTunes and i ended up getting rid of all the songs. I'm completely dumbfounded and I'm ready to accept help. I really hope I haven't lost everything.
So my question is, is there a way to retrieve all 2000+ songs and put it back on my iPod and the iTunes account? I appreciate anyone's suggestions in this matter. I'm no spring chicken, but I desperately want to understand and keep learning.
Thanks in advance,
philipfromwichita

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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I just lost everything for no visible reason. Help?

I have the latest iTunes version and always keep it updated. My computer has not crashed. It has not been improperly shut down. It is no different today than it was yesterday. I simply started it back up today, opened iTunes and discovered that everything is gone. All my music is still on my harddrive. When I go to Edit>Preferences, my library is still set to the same folder it was set to yesterday and yet iTunes has developed amnesia and needs all of it re-added. Why is this?
I'm particularly ****** about this because I spent WEEKS organizing my library in iTunes because I'm a stickler for that sort of thing. I have nearly 5,000 albums that I've ripped into digital format on this thing and I went through and rated them and organized artists according to countries/states/provinces/etc. I was completely stoked about this because I'm a music nerd.
Now all of that is completely gone for no visible reason whatsoever. I know I'm screwed and have to start over, but I want to know *** happened so starting over isn't a complete waste of time. If iTunes were a person, I'd break its jaw right about now. Twice.

Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. Note that in iTunes 11 an "empty" library may show your past purchases with links to stream or download them.
In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
Alternatively, depending on exactly when and why the library went missing, there may be a more recent .tmp file in the main iTunes folder that can be renamed as iTunes Library.itl to restore the library to a recent state.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
When you get it all working make a backup!
Should you be in the unfortunate position where you are no longer able to access your original library, or a backup of it, then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
I've noticed more of these missing library posts of late and a common factor since I started asking is AVG Anti-Virus. It seems it might be at least part of the reason why the library file disappears. Try excluding the iTunes folder from any real-time scanning process.
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I just lost everything ! In iMovie 11 at 1am about to export my work...

I am in a state of shock....
After hours of work I went to export my project to iTunes.. Got message about needing memory and told to restart iMovie ..
Did it and boooom gone all gone!
A 12 mb file exists in iMovie project folder that relates to my lost project but opens up blank...
Is this really gone forever?
Rebooted but no change...
Please advise anyone....
Mac mini 4 gh 3 months old running newest mountain lion..
Reaching for scotch night night :(

Unless you have a backup machine, you have probably lost it. Very unfortunate, yes.

Hal thinks that just about everything doubles as a digital camera

Yesterday I opened Nautilus and was greeted by an insanely long list of "digital cameras" in the sidebar. Included in it is my kernel, my mouse, my keyboard, my usb hub, and about 30 nameless devices (presumably every piece of hardware in my system?).
I have absolutely no idea what to do from here. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Yesterday I opened Nautilus and was greeted by an insanely long list of "digital cameras" in the sidebar. Included in it is my kernel, my mouse, my keyboard, my usb hub, and about 30 nameless devices (presumably every piece of hardware in my system?).
I have absolutely no idea what to do from here. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

I think I just lost all my info while updating to iOS4

Hey guys,
So I left my iphone 3G updating to iOS4 during the night as the backup process looked like it would take a lot of time.
I originally created my profile on my laptop but eventually "associated" the iphone with my main computer.
So when I woke up I see the iphone already restored and then it's asking me to which profile I want to restore. So it happens my profile is NOT there!
I would really appreciate any advice you guys can give me
I'm stressing out here cause I had a lot of important stuff there
Thanks in advance
Phillip

So is this backup useless?
Unfortunately, that could very well be the case. Not watching over you while you performed various steps, obviously I can't say where or what you did wrong. So you better understand what "may" have happened here, iTunes only keeps one normal iPhone backup. It's actually an incremental backup in that only data that has changed is actually backed up. While contacts and notes are included in the iPhone backup, if you perform a sync without that same content on your phone, that content is then removed from your iPhone backup. Could be what has happened here. From your post it appears you have not been syncing your contacts to a supported application on your computer: bad idea. Had you been regularly syncing all of the content on your phone, even if your iPhone backup became corrupted, you could still restore this data to your phone.

My ipod just lost everything

i backed up my pictures to my ipod and they were not on there and i restored it through itunes with the back up option and they still are not on there what can i do that the only pics i had of my kids my husband so if someone knows a way to do it please help me

If the photos were synced to the iPod they are not included in the backup.
- Maybe from the restored iPod via How to perform iPad recovery for photos, videos
Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS: iPhone Data Recovery - Wondershare Official
http://www.amacsoft.com/ipod-data-recovery.html
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Just lost everything after activation completed

After the 2.0 was finally! activated on my phone, all my info, messages, contacts is gone... Any suggestions?

I tried restoring and it only brought back pictures and music. No text messages or old notes. In addition when you select to restore it asks you if you want to back up the info from the current phone. I am assuming the answer is no, since currently my phone has no info. If you select that option, the restore function does not work. However, I do have a info backed up in itunes under options. Anyway I can retrieve that info?

HT4972 Did I just lose everything on my IPAD for the last year because it said to update it, not giving an option to back it up first? Its updating with ITunes now but under the RESTORE option. There was no way out of this.

My IPAD2 had a pop up message that an update is available, to close or click on details, so I clicked on details. It took me to an upgrade box, no back up options. I clicked to upgrade it. It downloaded for awhile, then turned off, and when it turned back on, it directed me to plug into my ITUNES with the USB adapter, which I did. When ITunes came up, it said I had to restore it before I could use ITUnes. Again, no other options. I am worried that I just lost everything on my IPAD2 for the last year, apps, photos, documents, settings, email, etc. It is still downloading after 30 minutes. Is everything gone and truly back to factory settings? If so there was no warning for this at all, I'll never get everything back.

I'm not sure what happned either but If you are doing this via iTunes, iTunes should have backed up the iPad first. It can take a good bit of time when you update with iTunes on your computer because iTunes downloads and installs the entire iOS all over again. If you are running iOS 5 on the iPad, and you will be now, you can update OTA via WiFi in the future and the process takes far less time since you will only be downloading an incremental update.
If you are syncing on a regular basis with iTunes, you should have a recent backup. In the worst case scenario, you should be able to restore from the backup. And as stated aboce, you can download all apps again and virtually all purchased content from iTunes (if you live in the U.S.) and you can always sync your iTunes library back to the iPad.
Let the update finish and see where you are then. Come back if you need help.

Lost EVERYTHING that was backed up...

My home button broke on my iPhone, so had to take it in to get fixed.
Well, they couldn't fix it, so they gave me a new one.
I had everything backed up on iTunes just in case.
I come home, plug it in & it gets about 75% done & freezes!
I exited iTunes in hopes of starting over.. Well, everything was lost & it said my backup was complete.
I had multiple games & apps on my phone that I paid for and/or worked my butt off to do stuff on & I've just lost everything.
Is there anyway to find all my backup sessions so I can fix this?

I lost everything at one point as well as my iTunes only seemed to 'backup' two apps.
Once I got the phone working I had to re-download every app I had. Once I had them again I checked some of them out and for whatever reason, every single app still had all the settings/scores etc that they had before I lost them.
Was pretty annoying having to find every single app again but once I had them all it was great to find out they were exactly as I had last used them. Hope it works the same for you.
Good luck

I can't back up my phone, they ask me to delete the back up, but I don't want to because I lost everything after updating the iTunes, How can I get back the back up?

Everytime I try backing up my phone, it says there's something wrong and wants me to delete the back up...But I don't want to delte the back up because I just lost everything after updating the iTunes, Is there any way I could get back everything from the back up?

Thank you for answering my question. If I reinstall itune, is it mean that I need to install music, apps, video...everything in itune again? also intall everything in my iphone again?

I think I just reset my macbook pro and i lost everything. Can I take them back?

I think I just reset my macbook pro and i lost everything. Can I take them

If by reset you mean you wiped the disk and reinstalled it, your only hope is a backup unless you had some things stored in iCloud. You could get the iCloud stuff back.

HT4623 I just updated my IPAD and it reset everything to a new IPad. I lost everything that was on it. Is there anyway of retrieving my pictures??

I just updated my Ipad and it reset everything to factory settings. I lost everything on the IPad. Is there any way of retrieving my pictures??

Yes, as Diavonex said to restore your iTunes or iCloud backup.
Please following this.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
If it does not work, you may try a 3rd easy iPhone recovery tool to get your pictures back.
You may refer to this to have a try.
http://easy-iphone-recovery.blogspot.com/2013/09/iphone-recovery-resource.html
I think this is helpful.

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