On 30/01/2010, at 6:09 PM, Andrew wrote:
HI Folks
While sharing a couple of files between my 2 iMacs across the home
network for printing purposes, I ejected what I thought was Mac no2
while on Mac no1. When I then tried to check email on Mac no1 it
behaved as though no account was set up. I restarted Mac no1 and it
is now a blank canvas - background pic is default, iTunes, iPhoto
etc all like I'm using them for the first time.
Mac no 2 (10.5.8) is fine and I am using it to type this. I really
need to recover the other one. Unfortunately it is OS 10.4.11 so no
Time Machine.
The only other thing I did prior to ejecting/unmounting as described
was rename the home folder.
Any ideas?
Yeap, renaming your Home Folder will be the cause of the problem.
MAKE A BACKUP NOW (even manually copying to another HD will be a
start) just to be safe
Then delete the newly created home folder (which was automatically re-
created when Mac OS X couldn't find it (because you renamed it)
Empty the trash
Rename your old Home folder back to the correct name
Reboot and hopefully all will be fine
--
Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@nicholaspyers.com)
"Heaven on Earth?"
"No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth!"
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