O/T computer hickup

[53sled]

I use a Mac, and installed osX 10.4.2, lost all my stuff. Strange thing is, my harddrive still has 7 gig used up, just like before. I think my pictures of my build-up, europe might be salvagable. Any one have file restoration software, know a guy? I'd like to get my mp3s back too.

Thanks

[JasonK]

Not sure, but how many gig's does the O.S. take to run? 7 gig?? I installed an extra 120gig hard drive. It uses 9 gig itself.

[53sled]

Shit. Thats all I got to say about that.

[JasonK]

Don't take my word for it..... I was pissed off when I installed my 120 gig drive to find out 111 gig was avalible. I paid for 120!! You always want to back up your stuf before you do anything to your system. I tried to move all my "pirated" music a few years ago. Moved it and lost it all. If I had only copied it, I would still have it all.....

[displaced_kiwi]

If you did a "clean" install then you might be out of luck, otherwise your data "should" be around somewhere. If you changed your admin username during the install your data might be under a different user - see this tech note http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854 I assume you are not using server?

You can also search the hole hard drive (In case you havnt done this already?)...

Open a terminal window

If you are not an admin user su to admin or root

Now do a find. If you know the exact name of a file, say lost_file.jpg, then do something like
find / -name lost_file.jpg
or if you know part of a filename try (you need the quotes in this command)
find / -name "lost*"

Anyways good luck.