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I upgraded my wife's iMac from OS X 10.4.9 to Leopard 10.5.4 on Christmas Day. I then attached a new WD MyBook external HD (500GB) so she would be able to use the TimeMachine feature. I had to reformat the drive from the factory WinFS format. After the OS upgrade and the reformat of the new drive, the data that was on her older external drive "appears" to be missing as well as several (hundreds) of school papers and related files and video and digital photos. We cannot find most of this stuff. On top of that, the over 4000 photos she has in iPhoto are now in the iPhoto trash can with no apparent easy way to recover them.
Is there a way to revert the computer to the version it was prior to the Leopard upgrade? Is all of this data toast?
Thanks!
JMB

thebark4 wrote:
I inserted the OS disk and followed the prompts.
This doesn't really answer the question of how you upgraded to Leopard. At various places in the process, you have options or decisions to make. I am guessing from your reply that you took the default option (called simply "Upgrade"), which attempts to replace only the components of the older OS (OS 10.4.9) with those that have changed in the new OS, while changing nothing else. This should leave all user data, system & user settings, applications, & so forth untouched & unchanged.
Another option is the "Archive & Install" one, which is similar, except that it replaces all the OS components with the new ones, whether or not they have changed, & moves the old ones into a "Previous Systems" folder at the root level of the drive. Unless the additional option available in this method to preserve users & settings is selected, your user data files are also moved into this folder, no user settings are preserved, & you must create a new user account after the installation is complete.
A third option is the "Erase & Install" method. As the name suggests, everything is erased before installing the OS. No user & system settings or user data is preserved.
If you used the Archive & Install" method, you should see a "Previous Systems" folder at the root level of the drive. It is possible that your lost user files are in it, but only those that were stored on the drive that was upgraded to Leopard.

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