Q: I think I just lost my documents...
Hello,
I backed up my old iMac files recently, which is great since it just died on me. Well yesterday, I got the backup drive and I plugged in into my new mac, and I saw that all of my files were saved. Yay!!! But I was having a hard time just looking through the folders, so I stupidly thought, "Why don't I just make a partition and move all of my files to it." BAD IDEA!!! I copied all of my files the my new partition and tried to startup using that disk. I got some weird errors saying stuff like the OS X could not be found, so I started internet recovery and tried to reinstall Yosemite (at then, I thought is was a good idea). Well, I left it on the "Downloading Yosemite, please wait" screen last night and woke up this morning to "Installation failed, please continue." So I clicked continue, and I got the choose a language screen, the one you get when you buy a iMac with no OS on it. I went through the menus, and got to the "Install Yosemite" menu. I selected the partition that I made with my backup files, and It gave me, "com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1." so I couldn't continue. I restarted my iMac and selected my default partition, and looked at my backup files I copied. Under my main user on the backup files, all but the Pictures folder are now alias folders. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7Yiw1R-TiRMZHdnVWhoeWwzckk
Did I lose all my work, or is there, by chance, a solution to this?
Thanks,
Geode1010
P.s. Also, sorry if I posted this in the wrong area, I'm new to this website.
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Jul 26, 2016 1:34 PM