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Mac OS X 4.11 All my Preferences Disappeared?? Mail, Firefox, System Prefs etc..
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<blockquote data-quote="adrianzag" data-source="post: 1517940" data-attributes="member: 133111"><p>Hi there,</p><p> </p><p>I own a great 7 year-old MacBook Pro, still running OS X 4.11. Before you laugh at me for not upgrading it has worked like a dream and never felt the need to upgrade though am sure I'm missing some good things by not doing so.</p><p> </p><p>Anyhow the other day, down to about my last 6 GB on my internal hard drive (87GB used of 93GB), my Mac Mail started misbehaving and asked me to restart.</p><p> </p><p>On restart, my whole desktop, icons/thumbnails etc were all jumbled beyond recognition, sidebar was almost empty, Mac Mail when opened asked me to start from the beginning (i.e.set up an email account etc etc). I did this, because I could remember the settings for my addresses. Then Mail asked me to import my old mailboxes, which it did - but everything looks different, fonts, no signatures (they'd taken ages to organise) and no inbox or sent meail folders.</p><p> </p><p>Ditto Firefox and Safari - when opened, all bookmarks have disappeared, and all autocomplete passwords for sites have gone.</p><p> </p><p>It's clear my system is pretty messed up. Luckily, I have a bootable Carbon Copy Cloned external drive of how my Mac used to be 6 weeks ago. When I used this to boot, everything above was back to normal.</p><p> </p><p>My questions are:</p><p> </p><p>1) Is there any way to get back to where my system was before the blowout using my Cloned Drive? I.E. Can I simply erase the contents of the internal drive and 'paste' over it with the Cloned Drive? Is this risky?</p><p> </p><p>or</p><p> </p><p>2) Is there a less invasive way - is it easy to reintroduce the old preferences from the Cloned drive?</p><p> </p><p>finally</p><p> </p><p>3) Do I need a new hard drive?</p><p> </p><p>Any help would be much appreciated.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks!</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Adrian</p><p> </p><p>System</p><p>Model Name: MacBook Pro 17"</p><p> Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,1</p><p> Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo</p><p> Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz</p><p> Number Of Processors: 1</p><p> Total Number Of Cores: 2</p><p> L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB</p><p> Memory: 2 GB</p><p> Bus Speed: 667 MHz</p><p> Boot ROM Version: MBP21.00A5.B08</p><p>MacBook Pro 17", Mac OS X (10.4.11), Intel Core 2 Duo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="adrianzag, post: 1517940, member: 133111"] Hi there, I own a great 7 year-old MacBook Pro, still running OS X 4.11. Before you laugh at me for not upgrading it has worked like a dream and never felt the need to upgrade though am sure I'm missing some good things by not doing so. Anyhow the other day, down to about my last 6 GB on my internal hard drive (87GB used of 93GB), my Mac Mail started misbehaving and asked me to restart. On restart, my whole desktop, icons/thumbnails etc were all jumbled beyond recognition, sidebar was almost empty, Mac Mail when opened asked me to start from the beginning (i.e.set up an email account etc etc). I did this, because I could remember the settings for my addresses. Then Mail asked me to import my old mailboxes, which it did - but everything looks different, fonts, no signatures (they'd taken ages to organise) and no inbox or sent meail folders. Ditto Firefox and Safari - when opened, all bookmarks have disappeared, and all autocomplete passwords for sites have gone. It's clear my system is pretty messed up. Luckily, I have a bootable Carbon Copy Cloned external drive of how my Mac used to be 6 weeks ago. When I used this to boot, everything above was back to normal. My questions are: 1) Is there any way to get back to where my system was before the blowout using my Cloned Drive? I.E. Can I simply erase the contents of the internal drive and 'paste' over it with the Cloned Drive? Is this risky? or 2) Is there a less invasive way - is it easy to reintroduce the old preferences from the Cloned drive? finally 3) Do I need a new hard drive? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Adrian System Model Name: MacBook Pro 17" Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot ROM Version: MBP21.00A5.B08 MacBook Pro 17", Mac OS X (10.4.11), Intel Core 2 Duo [/QUOTE]
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