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Screwed Up My Mac!!! HELP
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1225407" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>If you actually deleted the things your post seems to suggest you did creating a new account won't get them back. Did you actually empty the trash? If not the files are probably still in the trash can and could be returned to their original locations.</p><p></p><p>If you had a clone/backup of your drive you could reload from that. Without a clone/backup you could install Snow Leopard and get many of the basic applications back. That will not restore any third party applications you had installed though. You would need to install those separately.</p><p></p><p>Snow Leopard will make the installation without touching the files on your external drive. Just be careful to select the internal drive as the installation location. Better yet disconnect the external drive so you cannot accidentally overwrite the wrong drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1225407, member: 131855"] If you actually deleted the things your post seems to suggest you did creating a new account won't get them back. Did you actually empty the trash? If not the files are probably still in the trash can and could be returned to their original locations. If you had a clone/backup of your drive you could reload from that. Without a clone/backup you could install Snow Leopard and get many of the basic applications back. That will not restore any third party applications you had installed though. You would need to install those separately. Snow Leopard will make the installation without touching the files on your external drive. Just be careful to select the internal drive as the installation location. Better yet disconnect the external drive so you cannot accidentally overwrite the wrong drive. [/QUOTE]
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