PB crash - total data loss after forced restart.

Hello,
Ironically I was trying to back up a whole bunch of stuff the other day to and from external hard-drive (inc 5000 photos!) when I decided to start up itunes I had a message in German saying itunes needed to be updated (the OS was accidentally installed in German by technicians after a hard drive replacement last year, but I was running it in English) the thing is I was not online at the time and it wanted to update to a version dated 2007 so the first alarm bells started ringing. I did not allow this weird update of itunes fearing I would lose all my folders etc. and cancelled it. Then thinking I would eradicate the problem by restarting the PB when I tried to restart it wouldn't let me saying 'mirror agent' was preventing a restart. I left it for a while but then forced it to shut down. When I restarted it all my data / software etc was gone - it was all in German and like the 1st day the OS was newly installed!! (Icons huge, screensaver blue swirl etc) Everything except a few folders. Also it said only 5GB of hard drive - and it is 120GB hard drive.
What should I do?!! Can I try starting it from installation disk and use disk doctor or something or should I head straight to an apple technician?
I THINK the OS was 10.4.3 or around that mark.
Any help HUGELY appreciated! Thanks in advance and greetings from Berlin.
very worried,
Nicole.

ok i just remembered that I changed the name of my home folder - seems this was a stupid idea - i changed it from 'admin' to 'nicole'
I found this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
and fixed it!!
phew!!

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Hi,
I'm a switcher. I've decided to switch to mac after contemplating for almost 6 months. I'm glad I've switched, the Mac is an excellent machine and Superb OS!!
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Jonathan:
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2. Immediately after the startup sound, press and hold both the Command (Apple) and "s" keys on your keyboard. The computer will display a series of text messages, at which time you may release these keys.
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I've got two questions...
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Hello!
I have a problem I can't resolve.
I restarted my pc where was opened GNOME session and next time GNOME haven't started. Just showing some startup applications ( Skype and notify window "the configuration defaults for the GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator").
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Jan 24 01:42:27 pz kernel: wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:03:2f:2b:9f:4d (try 2)
Jan 24 01:42:27 pz kernel: wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:03:2f:2b:9f:4d (try 3)
Jan 24 01:42:27 pz kernel: wlan0: direct probe responded
Jan 24 01:42:27 pz kernel: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:03:2f:2b:9f:4d (try 1)
Jan 24 01:42:27 pz kernel: wlan0: authenticated
Jan 24 01:42:27 pz kernel: wlan0: associate with AP 00:03:2f:2b:9f:4d (try 1)
Jan 24 01:42:27 pz kernel: wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:03:2f:2b:9f:4d (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
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Jan 24 01:42:28 pz kernel: fuse init (API version 7.13)
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Jan 24 01:42:29 pz Failed: to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))
Jan 24 01:42:30 pz Failed: to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))
Jan 24 01:42:31 pz Failed: to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))
Jan 24 01:42:31 pz Failed: to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))
Jan 24 01:42:32 pz dhcpcd: wlan0: acknowledged 192.168.1.100 from 192.168.1.1
Jan 24 01:42:32 pz dhcpcd: wlan0: checking for 192.168.1.100
Jan 24 01:42:37 pz dhcpcd: wlan0: leased 192.168.1.100 for 604800 seconds
Jan 24 01:42:37 pz gnome-session[4580]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' failed to register before timeout
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zayac wrote:
Ok. I solved this for my issues.
The solution was found on the ubuntu forum:
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mv /myuser/.gconfd/saved_state /myuser/.gconfd/saved_state_backup
Then I had a completely recovered GNOME session on a next boot.
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I'm going to go try that and see if it works

Movie rental freezes, then cannot exit in fullscreen, then after forced restart I cannot find the rental in iTunes!

This has happened a few times before, and iTunes has always refunded me, but I am attempting to understand more about how to locate the rental on my computer or in my account in a way that will allow me to at least finish watching the movie!
I don't understand why this only seems to happen when the movie is in fullscreen.
After it froze, I couldn't move the player back into desktop mode and it wouldn't let me switch to another application either. The only thing I could seem to do was force re-start the computer. After that, when I opened iTunes, it no longer shows a link to the rental, nor can I seem to access it in iTunes.
I am sure there is a place somewhere on the computer where the file is, but I cannot think of where!
Can anybody help with troubleshooting?!

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All apps gone after forced restart of iPad

Hello,
I was just developing a bit with my iPad and after the debugger got hang I had to restart my iPad by holding down the home button and the lock button for some seconds.
After the iPad was booted up again, i noticed that all apps (expect the built in ones) where gone!!!
Unfortionatly my last iTunes backup was a long time ago (I know... i should have done it more often...)
But when I look at iTunes I can see a lot of "Other" space used (more that 10GB) so I think this is probably the space used by my apps...
It would just be really uncool, because I was for example using it a lot for taking notes (Noteshelf) and that would all be gone...
Any help is appreciated!!!
Thanks a lot

This did not help
I tried to backup some of my files with PhoneView and iExplorer but could not find anything... But iTunes shows me that there is a lot of space used for "other stuff"...
Any chance I can restore my files... I really want to have my Noteshelf drawings back!!!

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