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<blockquote data-quote="ysave_equ_$34" data-source="post: 1523012" data-attributes="member: 305194"><p>Hi, all. I'm not a Mac owner, I'm attempting to help a computer-timid neighbor who is. (Though in case it gets me any points here, my first computer was an Apple ][+. Which still works fine, btw, though now it's serving as a Linux terminal courtesy of App][ Kermit's VT200 emulation and a crossover serial cable, so it displays a $ prompt instead of a >.) Neighbor has a newish iMac with Lion.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, Rebecca the neighbor has a daughter who downloaded all kinds of internet trash onto her nice clean mac and she wanted to set it back to out-of-the-box condition. Since I wanted to help Rebecca but not p.o. the daughter unnecessarily I made a major effort to preserve her files. I am not exactly a computer noob--my first Linux distro was Slackware kernel version 1.0.13 circa 1992, and I was running SysV R3.2 Unix at home before that; also I have an MCSE cert for what that's worth--but not being a Mac guy I had an Apple helpdesk tech talking to me while doing all the following. With the tech instructing me I made a full Time Machine backup of the 500 GB internal drive to a new bought-for-the-purpose 1 TB external USB HD. I verified this backup, browsed down into it, opened some of the backed-up files, etc. etc. Everything looked fine. Then I rebooted, stopped the boot before login, started up Disk Utility, reformatted the internal drive HFS+, then reinstalled OSX from some server in Apple-land. That all went successfully too. Rebecca put the USB Time Machine HD back in its box in a locked drawer of her desk. (A wooden desk btw, not much chance for random static discharges there.)</p><p></p><p>So now it's a week later and daughter wants some of her files. The Mac now finds nothing on the Time Machine drive. Plug its power supply into 110v, connect its USB cable to the Mac, and System Information sees a HitachiGST Touro Desk 3.0 drive connected to the system. But neither Finder nor Disk Utility sees anything on it. </p><p></p><p>Can anyone suggest anything I can try that might help locate the HFS+ filesystem I created and filled with data such a short time ago? Please be as technical as you like, if I don't understand your reply I'll RTFM until I do.</p><p></p><p>Thanks very much!</p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ysave_equ_$34, post: 1523012, member: 305194"] Hi, all. I'm not a Mac owner, I'm attempting to help a computer-timid neighbor who is. (Though in case it gets me any points here, my first computer was an Apple ][+. Which still works fine, btw, though now it's serving as a Linux terminal courtesy of App][ Kermit's VT200 emulation and a crossover serial cable, so it displays a $ prompt instead of a >.) Neighbor has a newish iMac with Lion. Anyway, Rebecca the neighbor has a daughter who downloaded all kinds of internet trash onto her nice clean mac and she wanted to set it back to out-of-the-box condition. Since I wanted to help Rebecca but not p.o. the daughter unnecessarily I made a major effort to preserve her files. I am not exactly a computer noob--my first Linux distro was Slackware kernel version 1.0.13 circa 1992, and I was running SysV R3.2 Unix at home before that; also I have an MCSE cert for what that's worth--but not being a Mac guy I had an Apple helpdesk tech talking to me while doing all the following. With the tech instructing me I made a full Time Machine backup of the 500 GB internal drive to a new bought-for-the-purpose 1 TB external USB HD. I verified this backup, browsed down into it, opened some of the backed-up files, etc. etc. Everything looked fine. Then I rebooted, stopped the boot before login, started up Disk Utility, reformatted the internal drive HFS+, then reinstalled OSX from some server in Apple-land. That all went successfully too. Rebecca put the USB Time Machine HD back in its box in a locked drawer of her desk. (A wooden desk btw, not much chance for random static discharges there.) So now it's a week later and daughter wants some of her files. The Mac now finds nothing on the Time Machine drive. Plug its power supply into 110v, connect its USB cable to the Mac, and System Information sees a HitachiGST Touro Desk 3.0 drive connected to the system. But neither Finder nor Disk Utility sees anything on it. Can anyone suggest anything I can try that might help locate the HFS+ filesystem I created and filled with data such a short time ago? Please be as technical as you like, if I don't understand your reply I'll RTFM until I do. Thanks very much! Jim [/QUOTE]
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