My computer seems to have 'gone back in time'
Hi, am very confused by my mac. It's been timing out to the rainbow wheel when not in use, and sometimes freezing on start up, but problem been intermitant.
Then, one day last week when my kids were on the web it was asking for a flash update. I realised yesterday though that my computer has lost an entire set of files, all from a fixed period. I use my computer mainly for web surfing and music/photo/movie storage. First noticed when capturing movies from camera that the 2010 folder I usually save to had dissappeared. The 2009 folder has also gone. Further examination has shown that there are no pictures in iPhoto prior to an import on 22/02/09. In iTunes, the last ripped track is from 10/03/2009, and nothing from jan 2008 - feb 2009. Looking at the folders for each user, every main root folder is modified feb/march 2009 apart from Shared, which still contains MP3 folders that I copied recently eg sept 09 and late March 2010. Infact the only other files from 2010 I can find are the avi movies I downloaded and the Flash updTe I did a few days ago.
Any ideas where I should start? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks mark
Have you checked it with Disk Utility?
(Open Applications:Utilities:Disk Utility. The list on the left contains discs, with their partitions (volumes) indented under them. Click on the disc containing your boot partition (or click on the partition) and then click the “Verify Disk” button near the bottom right. You can not Repair the boot volume this way; you have to boot from your Apple CD, and run Disk Utility from there.)
If there is a problem here [and it is this that has caused the files to disappear, as opposed to it being a coincidence], I would expect that it was fairly bad; I would suggest that you back up all the files that you can see, before doing a repair.
Just out of curiosity: what does it say against “Format” (near the bottom left) when the boot partition is selected, please?
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