Ok, here goes! It's about 12:30AM (this morning).. I'm talking to a Mac guy online and he's teaching me about UNIX commands. I told him, I was reading a book on UNIX and I wanted to learn from a person about UNIX. Not receiving my next message in time, which said: But it didn't really learn anything from the book.... he said, so if i threw a sudo -rm -rf / at you, you would have stopped*? Me being curious, and stupid, typed it in the terminal and gave it my password. I then copied the text from the terminal into the iChat window. A second later, I got a message back. My heart sank, because I then realized my 2 HDs were trashed... (or so i thought)... I clicked on the desktop.. all my icons disappeared.. Then I clicked on my OS X drive.. All that was left was System and Users.. barely anything left in either folder. I clicked on my storage drive for games, my .img and .dmg's. All gone!!! The system then crashed. I restarted and what do i see? A Mac OS System folder with a question mark... I thought... my music, games, apps, my keynote presentation that took me a week to make.. all my settings.. e-mails... all gone
I put in my OS 10.2 Jaguar install CD and heres what i did... I opened the Drive Setup program and reformatted all my drives, because i really wanted a new partition for YDL. I wouldnt have done any of this, if I knew it could all be recovered with Norton Volume Recover... I only found out after i reinstalled OS X and went back onto iChat... Moral of the story: Never type in a terminal command without finding out what it does first... I learned it the hard way.. :'( Just hope i can save someone else's Mac.. -Jared Bland -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
