files flying south for winter
September 17, 2010 8:31 AM Subscribe
Help!! I have a new disk image on my mac, files have disappeared and I don't know which way is up.
Very strange things. Last week I drowned my Macbook’s logic board, but I saved the hard drive and placed it in an enclosure. We decided it was time to upgrade anyway, and bought a new iMac. I used disk migration during the setup, but when I opened the iMac none of my settings had migrated, nor my files, though my Applications had. I realised it may have been because the iMac was reading the old hard drive as a disc and not as a Mac, so I transferred the files and settings I needed, and all was fine.
Two days later we had our first power cut in years. The iMac was on, but the old hard drive was not connected.* The power came back on after ten minutes and I anxiously restarted and found all the files I had been working on for the previous two days were gone, and all the settings I had made were als gone.
But under devices there was my old computer’s name, and in it all my files and settings. It somehow had mounted separately.
Now I don’t know what to do. Should I run disk migration again and select my old computer that is sitting on my new iMac as the source? Or should I just move things manually – or something else.
O, additionally, all the files, like personal files, images, documents, are no longer on the external hard drive. And all images post 2008 that were in iPhoto have gone. i joked to a friend I had entered the Bermuda triangle of computing -- perhaps I was right...
* a universal power supply would have stopped this, but 1. I didn’t know about them until after (no desktop for 15 years) and 2. I don’t have 700 euros right now to buy one.
Very strange things. Last week I drowned my Macbook’s logic board, but I saved the hard drive and placed it in an enclosure. We decided it was time to upgrade anyway, and bought a new iMac. I used disk migration during the setup, but when I opened the iMac none of my settings had migrated, nor my files, though my Applications had. I realised it may have been because the iMac was reading the old hard drive as a disc and not as a Mac, so I transferred the files and settings I needed, and all was fine.
Two days later we had our first power cut in years. The iMac was on, but the old hard drive was not connected.* The power came back on after ten minutes and I anxiously restarted and found all the files I had been working on for the previous two days were gone, and all the settings I had made were als gone.
But under devices there was my old computer’s name, and in it all my files and settings. It somehow had mounted separately.
Now I don’t know what to do. Should I run disk migration again and select my old computer that is sitting on my new iMac as the source? Or should I just move things manually – or something else.
O, additionally, all the files, like personal files, images, documents, are no longer on the external hard drive. And all images post 2008 that were in iPhoto have gone. i joked to a friend I had entered the Bermuda triangle of computing -- perhaps I was right...
* a universal power supply would have stopped this, but 1. I didn’t know about them until after (no desktop for 15 years) and 2. I don’t have 700 euros right now to buy one.
Response by poster: Thanks Gungho, that's exactly wht has happened. I now just have to find my iPhotos and merge the accounts and everything will be well. Thanks again!
posted by bwonder2 at 1:08 AM on September 19, 2010
posted by bwonder2 at 1:08 AM on September 19, 2010
BTW it is a good thing to have two (different) users on any system. There should be an admin account for testing purposes along with any user accounts.
posted by Gungho at 5:23 AM on September 21, 2010
posted by Gungho at 5:23 AM on September 21, 2010
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posted by Gungho at 1:40 PM on September 17, 2010