On re-installing, I lost my disk image. How do I find it?

After re-installing Lion, my desktop disk image vanished. How can I find it?

The applicaton package Install Mac OS X Lion will be deleted at the conclusion of the installation process if it is located in the Applications folder. There is no reasonable way to recover it once deleted.
Your best bets are:
1- Get a copy from someone who made a backup.
2- Redownload it from the Mac App Store.
Note that you don't really need it, since your hard drive now has a special recovery partition. Reboot the computer while holding the option key and you will be able to choose a boot partition called Recovery HD. Boot into that, and you can reinstall Lion from there.
If you want to redownload the installer, here's how:
http://www.hightechdad.com/2011/07/21/how-to-re-download-mac-os-x-lion-create-a- bootable-install-dvd/

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Replaced HD yesterday Was able to restore from Time Machine Now, it won't back up to Time Machine. I removed the TM and tried to add it- the error is "The disk image for "computername.sparsebundle" is in use. Try ejecting the disk image - How do I do?

Hello jfilbey,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Power cycle the disk Time Machine is backing up to.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Best of luck,
Mario

I've installed LR on my new Mac - How do I find/what is the name of the file that opens to bring up my existing photos (on my external hd)?

I've installed LR on my new Mac - How do I find/what is the name of the file that opens to bring up my existing photos (on my external hd)?

Bookmarks and history are stored together in your profile folder in a database file named places.sqlite. These articles should help with restoring as much or as little of your other profile as you like:
Locating the folder: [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Profiles | How to | Firefox Help]
The following article has suggestions for recovering bookmarks: [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Lost%20Bookmarks Lost Bookmarks | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help].
To move more settings, see: [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile Recovering important data from an old profile].
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HT4995 I lost my ipod touch--how do i find it using location services?

I lost my ipod touch-how do I find it using Location services?

Joel Zimmerman wrote:
I lost my iPod touch in a club last Saturday. Was on, had a passcode on it but I didn't have Find My iPhone installed. I'm not sure if this is correct information, but an Apple store clerk said that I would still be able to track it if I had registered it with iCloud, which I have done
What you needed to have already done was to have went to Settings>iCloud and turned FindMyiPod on.
. The problem is, though, even if this information is true, how will I be able to find it? It's an iPod touch with no GSM/CDMA capabilities. Therefore, it cannot be found unless it was connected to Wi-Fi.
For location the iPod uses the location of nearby wifi routers that are in Apple's database. Thus, wifi has to be on.
But how would that be possible unless the person who found it knows my passcode?
Wifi just has to be on and connected to report its postition to you by going to icloud.com as explained in a previous reply.
I'm guessing that if the person wipes and restores the device, I will have no way of finding it... unless it works off the serial number?
If the iPod is restored, you can no longer find it via icloud.com. I uses turning FIndMyiPod on, not the SN,.
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I lost my iPad mini how can I find it?

I lost my iPad mini how can I find it?

If you had "Find My iPad" enabled then you may be able to locate it. If not, you cannot locate it. If it was enabled then you can try locating it via http://icloud.com on a computer or the App "Find My iPhone" on another iDevice. Note: this will only work if your device is connected to a network and the device hasn't already been restored as new and/or "Find My iPad" has not been disabled on it. Note: Disabling "Find My iPad" is much more difficult in iOS 7.
If you think that your device was stolen rather than lost then you should report it to the police. In either case you should contact your carrier, change your iTunes account password, your email account passwords, and any passwords that you'd stored on websites/emails/notes etc.

Help! I lost my Iphone today, how can I find it?Thanks

Help! I lost my Iphone today, how can I find it?Thanks
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According to your profile, the phone is an iPhone 4, right? I'd also advise u not to constantly call the phone as you may cause the person who took the phone to be in distress if its not a trustable person, or it has not been handed to the police or any safe place; resulting in your phone getting turned off, drain battery faster etc.
1. Is it iOS 5?
2. Have you turned on Find my iPhone in the initial setup process? It's integrated into iOS 5 I believe due to iCloud. Not iOS4
3. Is data on?
4. Theif hasn't turned it off
If these criterias are satisfied, your phone can possibly be tracked with iCloud at http://www.icloud.com
Click the tiny iCloud icon on the left side of your screen, select find my iPhone.
DO NOT ALERT THE THIEF BY PLAYING A SOUND IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO DECREASE CHANCES OF RECOVERY - It's a no turning back for whoever he/she is.
Possibly, get a trusted buddy or anyone close to you to borrow you an iPhone WITH Find my iphone, you probably can track it real time with the google maps on Find my iPhone. You need to login to your apple id.
Edit: ASAP. Good luck.

HT4061 I lost my ipod touch I lost my serial number, how do i find my ipod?

I lost my ipod touch I lost my serial number, how do i find my ipod?

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If you activated Find My Phone before it was lost or stolen, you can track it only if Wi-Fi is enabled on the device. What you cannot do is track your device using a serial number or other identifying number. You cannot expect Apple or anyone else to find your device for you. You cannot recover your loss unless you insure your device for such loss. It is not covered by your warranty.
If your iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, or iPad is lost or stolen what do you do? There are things you should have done in advance - before you lost it or it was stolen - and some things to do after the fact. Here are some suggestions:
This link, Re: Help! I misplaced / lost my iPhone 5 today morning in delta Chelsea hotel downtown an I am not able to track it. Please help!, has some good advice regarding your options when your iDevice is lost or stolen.
1. Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
2. Find my lost iPod Touch
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4. What-To-Do-When-Iphone-Is-Stolen
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I just updated my MacBook Pro to 10.7.5 and got a message that the AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext was improperly installed and cannot be used. How to I find and install this extension?

I just updated my MacBook Pro to 10.7.5 and got a message that the AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext was improperly installed and cannot be used. How to I find and install this extension?

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Hi. i lost my iPhone 5, how can i find please help?, hi. i lost my iPhone 5, how can i find please help?

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How do you make a bootable install partition from a disk image of an install disk.

I have an iMac g4 running Leopard and would like to install OS X 10.3 on a different partition Leopard is on. However the super drive in the iMac will not read the disk I have, so I used my MacBook Pro to make a disk image of the install disk to use to install on the iMac. I do not know how to make the disk image into a bootable partition so I can install 10.3. The person I bought it from has already created a partition of the Leopard install disk and it is bootable but I do not know how he did this. Please help me. Thanks!

However the super drive in the iMac will not read the disk I have, so I used my MacBook Pro to make a disk image of the install disk to use to install on the iMac
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I' not sure what you are trying to do.
To install,
-- you need to boot from a cd.
-- copy a working installation from another partition. try carbon-copy-cloner
-- could try target disk mode. There is a cd sharing mode.
"Installing OS X 10.4 'Tiger' on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode" Should work for 10.3
http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0710.html
Here is a picture of a firewire port:
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cd sharing across ethernet. Not sure if this works for booting.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287

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I have quite a few systems that I need to rebuild. I've burned disk images of all the apps we need, onto a FW800 drive which has really sped things up. One thing I can't figure out though, is how to install the OS from a disk image. Each of these systems are getting a fresh hard drive with no OS installed. Booting off the install DVD works fine with fresh drives, but how does one boot into a FW800 drive with a disk image of the install DVD?
I thought cmd-opt-shift-delete was the key stroke for this, but it doesn't work for these systems, can anyone help out?
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Cool, thanks, I was kind of thinking along those lines, but couldn't quite put my finger on it/figure it out, that makes sense, appreciate it.
Thanks again for quick reply,
Stuart

Installing Classic onto a disk image

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I have a Classic 'System Folder', together with a few legacy classic apps, on an external hard drive. I would much rather have them bundled together nicely in one single disk image which I could mount as and when I require classic -- which is very rarely, but I can't quite take the chance of getting rid completely yet.
I tried copying the system folder and the apps into a Sparse Disk Image and at first the Classic preference pane recognised the system folder and would launch Classic from it. But once I quit Classic and un-mounted the disk image, further attempt to launch Classic from the (re-mounted) disk Image proved fruitless. The Classic prefs pane would not see the System Folder on the disk image.
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Cool, thanks, I was kind of thinking along those lines, but couldn't quite put my finger on it/figure it out, that makes sense, appreciate it.
Thanks again for quick reply,
Stuart

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