Post by: ambesilica on May 05, 2009, 12:22:58 AM
Emailing on behalf of a friend who needed space and moved his home directory (sparse image) to an external drive then deleted it from his internal. He has moved it back and can log in but only the Desktop and Library folders show up. How can he access his documents et al?
Cheers
Post by: krissel on May 05, 2009, 03:39:16 AM
Are you saying that all he sees is two folders, Desktop and Library? Nothing else in the user folder? OR are you saying all his Applications, etc. are missing as well?
If the former, tell him to open Disk Utility and from there access his sparse image and run verify/repair disk on it.
If any repairs are reported then mount the image and see if it has the missing items.
If the latter he may have to startup from another drive, connect via FW and use a data rescue program to find the files. In this case the less he uses the computer the better chance of recovering files.
Oh, welcome to your first post at TS!
Post by: ambesilica on May 10, 2009, 01:07:39 AM
It was the former situation and he'll give your suggestion a go..will let you know how it goes so it might help others.
Glad to be on board : )
Post by: Xairbusdriver on May 10, 2009, 03:41:09 PM
Maybe just a brownish bunch of sand?
