Help!!! my new Mac book has gone haywire!!! Hard drive and other issues.
I've had my Macbook for 1 month now. In the last few days it has gone crazy. Two days ago I had 10GB of room left on my hard drive - now I have 1! and in the last day I have removed at least 8GB of movies, etc. to DVD, but still have an ever diminishing amount of space (yes I emptied the trash) - barely 1 GB, sometimes less when I restart my computer.
Just recently, I lost all my bookmarks in Firefox - although if I use spotlight, there's a record there - but they won't reload.
Then I tried to shutdown my Mac, hoping that it would recover some disk space, but the process goes on for ages, and never completes. After a forced shutdown, my Dock and its layout have changed.
Also, at startup, there is a new user -Other- that was not there a few days ago, which has a name and password blank, but if I type my name and password, or leave it blank, etc. I can't access it!
And after the latest restart - I lost my account info in Mail - when I open Mail it's as if I've never used it!!!!
Can anyone please help!!!!
Just recently, I lost all my bookmarks in Firefox - although if I use spotlight, there's a record there - but they won't reload.
Then I tried to shutdown my Mac, hoping that it would recover some disk space, but the process goes on for ages, and never completes. After a forced shutdown, my Dock and its layout have changed.
Also, at startup, there is a new user -Other- that was not there a few days ago, which has a name and password blank, but if I type my name and password, or leave it blank, etc. I can't access it!
And after the latest restart - I lost my account info in Mail - when I open Mail it's as if I've never used it!!!!
Can anyone please help!!!!
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
