I'm not a tech-savvy person in the least, so I hope someone here can help me out. I really don't want to lose everything and have to re-install all my programs.
iMac
Do you really mean Leopard? (OS X 10.5)? What Mac do you have (model and year), what version of OS X did you have installed before, and do you have any kind of backup?
Matt
Yes, I just installed Leopard (OS X 10.5). I'm not sure what OS X I had before, sorry, it was a pretty old one. I've had this Mac for years. Like I said that, I'm not tech-savvy at all. How do I find out what Mac I have?
Well, it looks like you have an iMac, but if you go to the Apple menu, click About This Mac, then More Info, you'll see a hardware model number at the top. It might look like "iMac3,1". That will help us translate it into a year.
When you say your programs have gone, are you just looking at the dock (the line of apps at the bottom of the screen), or have you also gone to the Applications folder (click the Finder, then Applications) and verified that they've been deleted?
There are two possibilities that I can think of - either your install wiped the hard drive (it's possible to do that, but shouldn't happen by default), or you're logged into a different user account than your normal one. You could try going to System Preferences - Accounts, and check if there are multiple users listed there.
Matt
its an iMac 7,1. And yeah, its missing off the dock and it's not in my application folder. I'm the only account listed as well. I have no idea what happened.
I just updated to OSX Leopard, but when it finished installing, all of the stuff I had on my Mac previously is gone (applications, photos, files, etc.). Is it possible to get that stuff back?
