--- On Mon, 1/25/10, Al Poulin <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Al Poulin <[email protected]>
> Subject: New system, but can you save the old bookmarks and Cookies?
> To: "G-Group" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 5:17 PM
> On Jan 25, 8:05 pm, Kasey Smith <[email protected]>
> wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
Nice discussion but not the issue - what I am trying to do is like this = It is
hard to get a post published, my rate is 1 in 5, but you would not know this
problem, because posters of camera questions that have nothing to do with G4s
and changing the mother board that is experimental and a waste of our time and
other non G3-5 items manage to get full posting, so I have to beat the bush and
fudge to try to get the answers needed.
So, here is the real story:
On my G4 I have 2 hd one has 2 partitions with 10.2 in one and 10.4 in the
other the other hd is just storage. I decided to check the hds and ran
command+s so that I could in turn run </sbin/fsck -fy> for 10.4 it came back
fine, but for 10.2 it reported failure. I ask the list for help, since when I
moved ALL the stuff off the 10.2, so as to clear the directory and save the
partition, I found some 3 Gb yet no known reasons.
It was suggested that I get a program "Disk Inventory X" to "see" the disk and
it showed lots of stuff. Since I had already stripped the 10.2 partition and
was now finding invisible files, this program would let me remove them as this
was the goal.
I wanted to test what I was doing, so I started with the first most listing and
moved it to the trash, emptied the trash and did a restart to see if all was
well - to my astonishment I found myself in the sign on set up to name the NEW
ADMINISTRATOR AND NEW PASS WORD.
I panicked. OMG what is going on. I rechecked the display from "Disk Inventory
X" to "see" the picture. There is NO WAY TO MAKE AN ERROR when you have to
select the disk partition - it turns blue - and then build the picture, so I am
sure I was NOT ON THE 10.4 partition.
This damage, as astonishing as it is, meant all the passwords and cookies are
now gone, but Wait there is the original user name in the users folder, but
only the NEW ADMINISTRATOR account exists due to this problem.
What to do? IDEA: Since in the new user account the browsers create new cookies
and bookmark files, if I could only find them in the old user account and
simply move them to the new user account replacing the newly created files, all
damage would be resolved.
Now you all know why suggestions about upgrade and downgrade stuff is not the
issue, but is is the only way I was able to get the question posted on the list.
This is not my fault. Had my original posters been published, it would not have
been necessary to beat about the bush so much to try to fine the file names of
the cookies and the bookmarks.
Thank you all, JML.
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