Imac has restarted with default settings?

i was downloading flash player update and did , then was asked to restart firefox which i did then the desktop lost all icons and screen looked like it did when i took it out of the box 2 years ago, all music is lost and recent photos in iphoto are gone. what happened

Which site did you use to download from? The official Adobe site?

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You're welcome. Glad it worked out.
Amazing day yesterday. The Earth shake was very powerful, lasting for over a minute. Fortunately and amazingly, we had very minor damage.
Please mark this post "solved". Helpful for others looking for a solved solution to a similar question, also helpful for me. Aloha from Big Island.

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In article <[email protected]>,
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Improvement of what?
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It's not an checked and verified precision reading.
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