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He,
I am having a really hard time with this issue and haven't found any answers yet on the internet and forums online
this happened approx 2 weeks ago
As you may all know you cannot delete locked files like you delete normal files, so I wanted to delete my locked files with Terminal, after typing the whole code I needed to type I [apparantly] made an mistake there. I typed my home directory name as Hatice coskun in stead of Hatice. And then it took longer than normal to delete those files. As i kept waiting it still was busy and I suddenly saw some files getting removed on my desktop. I got scared and force- shut down my mac, when opened and logged in my whole home directory was set to standard. My whole document folder was gone and my Movies folder. Al my settings were gone aswell. (mouse, internet, itunes, dock, evertyhing!)
I knew if i didn't shut down the mac by force it would've deleted my pictures and music folder aswell. [wich were the only ones unharmed]
I don't know what to do. All my schoolfiles were in that folder.
After doing much research on the internet I found out that my files are not really gone, but hidden. I went to MAc OS X harddrive and looked if my gb went up, but it didn't, it was still the same, so the files are still somewhere in my computer, but i cannot find them.
I downloaded a program that showes hidden files on my mac but it didn't worked.
I wanted to call the apple store for help but i had to pay 49 euro's + tax if i wanted their help *scratch that*
And i changed my home directory name to the wrong name I typed in terminal to hope i got my filed back but it didn't work.
also, i don't have any external hard disks to be backing up my stuff etc, (after this i am trying to buy one)
So, can anybody please help me?
thank you
I am having a really hard time with this issue and haven't found any answers yet on the internet and forums online
this happened approx 2 weeks ago
As you may all know you cannot delete locked files like you delete normal files, so I wanted to delete my locked files with Terminal, after typing the whole code I needed to type I [apparantly] made an mistake there. I typed my home directory name as Hatice coskun in stead of Hatice. And then it took longer than normal to delete those files. As i kept waiting it still was busy and I suddenly saw some files getting removed on my desktop. I got scared and force- shut down my mac, when opened and logged in my whole home directory was set to standard. My whole document folder was gone and my Movies folder. Al my settings were gone aswell. (mouse, internet, itunes, dock, evertyhing!)
I knew if i didn't shut down the mac by force it would've deleted my pictures and music folder aswell. [wich were the only ones unharmed]
I don't know what to do. All my schoolfiles were in that folder.
After doing much research on the internet I found out that my files are not really gone, but hidden. I went to MAc OS X harddrive and looked if my gb went up, but it didn't, it was still the same, so the files are still somewhere in my computer, but i cannot find them.
I downloaded a program that showes hidden files on my mac but it didn't worked.
I wanted to call the apple store for help but i had to pay 49 euro's + tax if i wanted their help *scratch that*
And i changed my home directory name to the wrong name I typed in terminal to hope i got my filed back but it didn't work.
also, i don't have any external hard disks to be backing up my stuff etc, (after this i am trying to buy one)
So, can anybody please help me?
thank you