I restarted my iMac and lost everything!!!

Hello and welcome to discussions,

I suspect that all the files are still there. Its probable that you have logged back in as a different user.

Go to system preferences and see which account you are in currently and which account you should be in.

Apple > System Preferences > Accounts.

Regards

Ian

Have you checked:

~your Home folder/

Music/iTunes/ (contains)>iTunes Music, iTunes Music Library.xml, iTunes Library (Data)

~your Home folder/ Pictures/iPhoto Library

If these folders are still there, they can be reimported into iTunes and iPhoto.

(Opening an Administrative Account does NOT automatically open any addtional accounts.)


DIXIE 🙂

Quote: " So that indicates to me that all the stuff I think I've lost is on there somewhere, but I don't know how to bring it back."

That is an encouraging sign. Since you have Tiger OSX, did you do a search of your internal hard drive with Spotlight?

You could also download this free utility "EasyFind" for Tiger. It is an efficient searching program that is not difficult to use.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076/easyfind

It is possible the iTunes and iPhoto folders are buried in some obscure sub-folder.

Give it a shot ..... it can't hurt!



DIXIE 🙂


P.S. I would first Repair Permissions using /Applications/Disk Utility/Repair Disk Permissions

Message was edited by: DIXIE

Hello and welcome.

I don't suppose you renamed your Home folder by any chance?

If so refer to: Recover from renaming your Home folder.

Good luck,

Adrian

Bluddi good catch!!!

Nice one 🙂

Regards

Ian