iBook second impression–i lost my data already
It has been only one day and i’ve lost my stuff. Thankfully I figured it out enough to recover the “important” stuff.
I shut my case before I headed out from work, and when I got on the bus and opened back up the top, it wouldn’t come back on. After a few button presses, the machine just booted up from scratch (The startup sound is still the same as when I left Macs 7 years ago:). I was greeted upon login with the default desktop! I had apparently lost everything. I had a 1.5 (or maybe 15, i didn’t pay attention, but it was huge) gig jon.sparseimage file sitting there, however. I was able to log in as root, double click on it, enter a password, and it mounted, so i grabbed my files and copied them on top of the existing folders. I then threw away the files sitting in the newly mounted drive.
Well…after logging out and logging in again as myself, I couldn’t access the files due to “insufficient permissions”. I thought my problems may have had to do with setting “FileVault” on–so I attempted to turn it off, but it said I had people logged on and had to be logged off, so before logging off, I opened up a terminal and fixed the permissions problem, logged out, logged back in, and my files were gone. Weird. Good thing i still had the originals in the trash. Switched to root, dragged the files back out of the filesystem into the jon login, modified the permissions, logged out, logged back into my user account, and things seemed to be okay.
It wasn’t ’til I made it home of course that I see that there may have been a more straightforward way to fix this issue.
However, it shouldn’t have even happened in the first place.