My iBook erased all of my data

macbookair77macbookair77
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
So I went to Ciricut City to see if they could fix my iBook but when I was almost home and I turned it on only to see that my iBook erased all of my data my iPhoto libary was gone my bookmars in Safari were gone and everlything was set back to the defualt it may have been the logic board (my iBook is the G3 Dual USB)or the hard drive. Any help?(Also note that it has Panther on it)

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member
    Perhaps a more accurate statement would be, "Circuit City erased a bunch of stuff on my iBook!"



    The machine doesn't just spontaneously erase things (especially while it's off). SOMETHING was done to cause the stuff to be erased. Or possibly, the tech looking at it merely moved some files around, and now iPhoto can't FIND it's data, and Safari can't FIND the bookmarks data.



    So the question becomes... what did the "tech" at Circuit City do to your iBook? (And why take it to Circuit City?... they don't even sell Macs.)
  • Reply 2 of 7
    kmac1036kmac1036 Posts: 281member
    DON'T use the ibook if you want to recover anything...



    It was the tech that did it...



    you will have to try and do a scan on the drive with a commercial utility & an external drive:

    Data Rescue II from www.prosofteng.com or

    File Salvage: www.subrosasoft.com
  • Reply 3 of 7
    macbookair77macbookair77 Posts: 59member
    Well the person said that they cant fix Macs so I went home and BOOM! no data
  • Reply 4 of 7
    spinnerlysspinnerlys Posts: 218member
    Why did you want your iBook fixed in the first place?

    What was the problem?



    Did they do anything with your iBook? Did the touch it, looked around in your OS, or did they just see it and said "Sorry, we don't do Macs."?



    For your bookmarks you can use Spotlight to look for them. Just type the name of your bookmark, click "Show all" and you can even sort for Safari bookmarks.



    iPhoto: Spotlight> "iphoto library" > "Show all"
  • Reply 5 of 7
    macbookair77macbookair77 Posts: 59member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by spinnerlys View Post


    Why did you want your iBook fixed in the first place?

    What was the problem?



    The opitcal drive did not close



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by spinnerlys View Post


    Did they do anything with your iBook? Did the touch it, looked around in your OS, or did they just see it and said "Sorry, we don't do Macs."?



    No they did not do anything they said "Sorry we service Macs go to Frys they do"



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by spinnerlys View Post


    For your bookmarks you can use Spotlight to look for them. Just type the name of your bookmark, click "Show all" and you can even sort for Safari bookmarks.



    iPhoto: Spotlight> "iphoto library" > "Show all"



    Well I dont have Tiger on my iBook I have panther on it
  • Reply 6 of 7
    kmac1036kmac1036 Posts: 281member
    Did you by chance enter another user acct?



    as far as safari, bookmarks are saved in /user/Library/Safari/bookmarks.plist



    they are also stored in /user/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/Bookmarks
  • Reply 7 of 7
    macbookair77macbookair77 Posts: 59member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kmac1036 View Post


    Did you by chance enter another user acct?



    as far as safari, bookmarks are saved in /user/Library/Safari/bookmarks.plist



    they are also stored in /user/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/Bookmarks



    Well I got all my photos in iPhoto back but I cant get my bookmars back. And I only have 1 acct. on my iBook but Iused to have another one but I deleted it a long time ago
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