Lost my account and lost all my data
I was trying to set-up a master account to lock my computer and it worked fine however when I turned it on today all I could see was the new account and the desktop looked like a new computer that was turned on for the first time a very clean desktop & menu bar. I could see my other user information but I could not click on it and it seemed like it was grayed out. Well I started playing with the administrator tab and I clicked on something and my original user ID came up in a box and asking if i wanted to delete it, of course I did not but could not exit the box until I checked one of the choices, there were 4 choices to check and one of them I believe said something like "do not delete data" so that is the one I chose and then the box disappeared and so did my user profile. When I restarted my computer all I could get was the new administrator desktop. When I looked at my hard drive I clicked on iPhoto and all of my pictures were gone and all my personal data. My MS Office was still there but that too was like a new program as well. However when I looked at the size of the HD it said that I had 103 GB of space left but I have a 250GB HD so there is data there I just cannot get to it. HELP!
Thanks so much Király, I found the folder as deleted file and all my pictures were in there as well as the other documents. However I have another question when I looked at my iPhoto & Kodak folder on the HD they were empty as they must have been associated with the other user, is there a way to check to see if they are still floating in limbo somewhere on the HD?
Another question I have is on Time Machine, when I first got this OS10.5 I bought an external 250GB drive and turned on time machine. Well after a while the unit filled up and gave me an error the time machine did not have enough space, so I erased everything in the file had I not done that I could have recovered everything from there. Now my question has to do with the amount of data being saved, I thought that it only reviewed the whole system and saved anything that was added from the previous saved data but it seems to save everything each time, is there a setting that I can do to just save the new data added since the last save?
Once agine thank you so much for your help
Dpn
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