Ley Fey

Q: entire iPhoto pictures missing from external hard drive.

Hello, I have already posted this problem but I'm not sure it was clear enough and not getting the response I needed. I had a Jan 2011 white laptop came with snow leopard, and I upgraded to Lion. A good few months ago, my daughter splashed a small amount of water on it, whilst it was turned on and open. I dried off the water I could see, and the mac was still working so I assumed it was ok. (At this time it had a very low battery and was not connected to a power source) Later on in the afternoon, forgetting about the incident, I did the unthinkable and plugged in the power lead. Result: nothing, the laptop would not boot up, I tried a few times, even holding down the power key for extended time but nothing. I eventually gave up  and got myself a new macbook 10.9.2 then two days ago, took the old burnt out laptop to a place to get them to remove the hard drive and fit it in a case for me with a usb connection. They done this, I  got home and connected the external hard drive off my old mac into my new mac, success I could see it but when I tried launching I photo from the external HD (old lap top) on my new mac. (I didn't realise there would be a software issue which is obvious now)The new mac with mavericks said it could not open iphoto. So I tried searching for the photo files manually on my external hard drive (but there was nothing)  The user files were completely empty. It showed hardly any bytes (indicating I had nothing) My itunes files where gone too, and I could find no files I needed that were originally on my old (mac/ now external harddrive) The only items that were intact were the documents in the documents folder and the applications. I took the external hd back to the repair shop and they said they could not find them. They said they would charge me £100 for an attempted recovery  of data which I 'm now not sure what to do, as I'm unsure what has happened. I desperately would like to get some of the data back, i;e (some files from desktop and photos)  as frustratingly  it was not backed up....

 

My questions are:

1.Would trying to open iphoto, and itunes from my  external HD with earlier software in  10.9.2 Mavericks cause me to lose data (including desktop files) ?

2. Could the water damage be the issue for destroying the data? (although other data is still there)

3. Is it likely the files are still on my external hd and I just can't see them (although the low bytes seems to indicate perhaps not)

4. Is there a reliable data recovery program out there someone can recommend I can get and use that may recover the files, and do I download it on my new mac, and direct it to the external hd?

5. Would apeture locate the missing iphoto picture files  from the external HD and integrate it into the library on my mavericks?

6. Could the problem be caused by leaving the HD in my old(water damaged) laptop for so long before I tried rescuing it?

 

Any light on situation much appreciated. Apologies if this issue already been aswered, I did scour but did not see help I needed.

 

Thanks in advance

MacBook

Posted on Apr 13, 2014 12:38 AM

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    Ley Fey Ley Fey Apr 15, 2014 5:48 PM in response to Ley Fey
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    Apr 15, 2014 5:48 PM in response to Ley Fey

    had a thought,

    Perhaps that new home folder with the old photographs got moved there by the  Stellar Pheonix recovery software.. Should I remove it, I dont' really want it there, but I could do with salvaging some of the jpg files to see if I can open them someother way other than preview.

     

    The fork lift was brilliant btwhappy.gif and worked flawlessly unlike the others I tried.. Thanks it seemed to indicate however that there were no files to be foundsad.gif Makes me wonder about Stellar Pheonix... its had a lot of negative press.. Found out AFTER I purchased it. got a refund though.

     

    OH DEAR::: Just checked the fork lift app again without external OLD MAC HD attached and my default user folder for my new mac

     

    has been replaced with the old user folder (from the old mac) and I did not put it there knowlingly... HELP, I think I'm going mad.

     

     

     

    Question: How can I restore my new mac mavricks to a former state :i:E

     

    Before I installed the java update which may have been ab older version to the one I currently have, seeing that Photoshop CS5 is an old version too.

     

    I think thats what may be causing me the new problem. This is the error code I get:

     

    Proxy Error

    The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
    The proxy server could not handle the request GET /message/25485142.

    Reason: Error reading from remote server

     

     

    Apache/2.2.3 (Oracle) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 Server at discussions.apple.com Port 80

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