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Have I screwed myself with "Control S" ???
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<blockquote data-quote="christiannokes" data-source="post: 994829" data-attributes="member: 143042"><p>I now realize I should have better stayed away from this operation.</p><p></p><p>It all started yesterday when I manually shut my computer off.</p><p>When I turned it back on I opened Firefox and it was on there homepage like something had happened. 1st mistake: I didn't check to see what the problem was. My computer asked me if I wanted to make a new keychain or cancel- I chose cancel. Then I go to my bookmarks and they are all gone. In fact it appeared that Firefox had restored to default.</p><p></p><p>This bummed me out. I tried looking in Application Support, Firefox, Profile, Bookmarkbackup.html and it had an old copy of what my bookmark list looked like 2 years ago (*** by the way?).</p><p></p><p>2nd mistake: Somehow I thought I needed to reset my password and I looked around on forums and came up with this brilliant advice for very much more so brilliant me.</p><p>reboot, hold "apple" + "S" after chime, type * mount -uw /, * rm /var/db/.ApplesetupDone, * shutdown -h now.</p><p></p><p>Here is what happened with this- I tried typing in the first line and it seemed like it wasn't working cause it said something about invalid or basically was a "no go". For some reason though it returned a name of one of my songs in itunes (weird).</p><p>I couldn't figure out how to turn it off so I tried hitting the off button on my computer to make it sleep. It didn't work and then I hit enter and it returned a large array of info. then I hit the up arrow and it returned another large array of BS. Then I decided to get really wicked with it and hold the power button down to shut the computer down completely.</p><p>When I turned it back on it looked like there was a default reset that happened, but not completely. It saved things on MAcintosh HD but my Garageband files are gone when I look in the Garageband area. Documents, Music, etc look empty. Itunes is welcoming me like it's the first time I have used it (same with Safari).</p><p></p><p>So have I completely F'ed myself? Figuratively speaking, I know, I already have. But can I get back these files and return to how things used to be?</p><p></p><p>pathetic sniffle</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="christiannokes, post: 994829, member: 143042"] I now realize I should have better stayed away from this operation. It all started yesterday when I manually shut my computer off. When I turned it back on I opened Firefox and it was on there homepage like something had happened. 1st mistake: I didn't check to see what the problem was. My computer asked me if I wanted to make a new keychain or cancel- I chose cancel. Then I go to my bookmarks and they are all gone. In fact it appeared that Firefox had restored to default. This bummed me out. I tried looking in Application Support, Firefox, Profile, Bookmarkbackup.html and it had an old copy of what my bookmark list looked like 2 years ago (*** by the way?). 2nd mistake: Somehow I thought I needed to reset my password and I looked around on forums and came up with this brilliant advice for very much more so brilliant me. reboot, hold "apple" + "S" after chime, type * mount -uw /, * rm /var/db/.ApplesetupDone, * shutdown -h now. Here is what happened with this- I tried typing in the first line and it seemed like it wasn't working cause it said something about invalid or basically was a "no go". For some reason though it returned a name of one of my songs in itunes (weird). I couldn't figure out how to turn it off so I tried hitting the off button on my computer to make it sleep. It didn't work and then I hit enter and it returned a large array of info. then I hit the up arrow and it returned another large array of BS. Then I decided to get really wicked with it and hold the power button down to shut the computer down completely. When I turned it back on it looked like there was a default reset that happened, but not completely. It saved things on MAcintosh HD but my Garageband files are gone when I look in the Garageband area. Documents, Music, etc look empty. Itunes is welcoming me like it's the first time I have used it (same with Safari). So have I completely F'ed myself? Figuratively speaking, I know, I already have. But can I get back these files and return to how things used to be? pathetic sniffle [/QUOTE]
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