Lost data after upgrade to Lion on Macbook Pro
Hi. I recently upgraded to Lion on my Macbook Pro and after a crash, my data was lost. The documents and downloads folders were empty. Fortunately I have a PC backup of the data and when I tried to restore the music to Itunes I was getting error messages about my MAC hard disk being full. Is the data still there? If so where? As it is not showing and a search for music on the hard disk yielded nothing. The capacity of my HD is 250GB and before the upgrade it had about 125GB free. I suspect the data was not removed but merely 'marked for deletion' and parked somewhere during the upgrade.
You posted in the OS 10.3 (Panther) & below. Suggest you repost in the Lion forum at https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion
Cheers, Tom
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