Preferences Lost... now iTunes

emaneman
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in macOS edited January 2014
I know this should really be in Genius Bar, but more people come here . I got a kernal panic before and when I restarted and lauched IE all my preferences and cookies were gone. Favs were still there though. Is something wrong with the HD? Or is it OS X? Anyone got any ideas?



[ 02-08-2002: Message edited by: EmAn ]</p>

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Have you fscked your disk since it crashed? I assume you know the process since you're here so often. And no, <a href="http://www.fu-fme.com/"; target="_blank">this</a> in not what I mean.



    It doesn't surprise me, though, that open files (namely the IE prefs) may have been lost during a crash. That's a pretty common occurance for any kind of crash.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong>

    It doesn't surprise me, though, that open files (namely the IE prefs) may have been lost during a crash. That's a pretty common occurance for any kind of crash.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Alright. I just never have lost anything in a crash before, so it was a little weird.
  • Reply 3 of 10
    richard788richard788 Posts: 33member
    Hey, you don't need a kernel panic in order to loose your preferences, check this discussion,

    <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000317"; target="_blank">http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000317</A>;
  • Reply 4 of 10
    hekalhekal Posts: 117member
    Any idea what caused the panic?



    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>I know this should really be in Genius Bar, but more people come here . I got a kernal panic before and when I restarted and lauched IE all my preferences and cookies were gone. Favs were still there though. Is something wrong with the HD? Or is it OS X? Anyone got any ideas?</strong><hr></blockquote>
  • Reply 5 of 10
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by hekal:

    <strong>Any idea what caused the panic?



    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    No idea at all. It happened when I clicked Sign On for AOL.
  • Reply 6 of 10
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    SHIT!!! Now I had another random kernal panic and my iTunes Library seems to be corrupted. It says it can't be read because of an unknown eroor. Anyone have advice??
  • Reply 7 of 10
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I'll ask again: did you fsck your disc the last time you restarted?



    Losing your iTunes library shouldn't really be such a big deal. Can't you just drag your MP3 files back into iTunes to re-add them to the library? Like the IE Prefs, it iTunes was open when your computer crashed, any files it had open could have been damaged. Yet another reason Apple should move to a journaling file system...
  • Reply 8 of 10
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong>I'll ask again: did you fsck your disc the last time you restarted?

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yes.



    No, I can't just drag my MP3s back in there because after I get the error message iTunes quits.
  • Reply 9 of 10
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Hrrmm. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> That is odd indeed.



    I assume you've tried trashing the old "~/Documents/iTunes/iTunes Music Library (2)" file, correct?



    And you wrote down and reported the k-panic's to Apple too, right? Btw, do you remember if the panics were related? Do you recall exactly what was going on during both of them? The panics I have had before were all supposedly hardware related (memory problems, FireWire).
  • Reply 10 of 10
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong>Hrrmm. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> That is odd indeed.



    I assume you've tried trashing the old "~/Documents/iTunes/iTunes Music Library (2)" file, correct?



    And you wrote down and reported the k-panic's to Apple too, right? Btw, do you remember if the panics were related? Do you recall exactly what was going on during both of them? The panics I have had before were all supposedly hardware related (memory problems, FireWire).</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I didn't think of trashing that file. I just did and now I have half of my library, eventually I'll just re-add everything.



    The first panic was when I was quitting IE and the second one was when I opened up Toast while listening to an MP3.
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