Restore,may have wiped all my files?....
Hi i have a intel imac and have been having problems with my wireless mouse not connecting. I think bluetooth has been switched off some how, so there fore have no mouse to adjust settings.
Anyway , i remembered that installing a restore disc looks for the mouse as soon as you put the disc in....which it did. Problem being once the restore had started i couldnt stop it. so i opted for the new op system to be installed alongside the old one and transfer all my old files across with it.
It has done none of this, it has installed a new leopard system and i can see the 'old system files' in finder but cannot find any of my music pics, websites documents.
It must be still there as my disc was virtually full before i did the install, i just cant find any of them. i have no restore point for time machine either and really do not know enough about macs to start altering things.
has anyone any idea how i can restore all my old files ?
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