Desktop content gone missing

[dojames]

Hello,

I just restarted my mac (Powermac G5 OSX 10.4.11) after I opened iTunes and found no songs in my music box and the song I tried to open wouldn't play. When the computer started up all my desktop picture were gone and all the folders on the desktop were also gone. All the system settings were reset. The content in my storage is all there except a folder which I had open when I restarted - my music folder is basically all gone (including all the music I was working on) except for the one folder I had open in the music file. I would hate to think all the folders are just gone - I have a lot of work in those folders.

If you have any idea for a solution to this problem I would be extremely grateful.

Thank you.
David

araratrek@hotmail.com

[Frida]

Have you tried repairing permissions using DiskUtility? If you are unfamiliar with this procedure, this is what you do:

• Go to Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility.
• Click on the 'First Aid' tab below the toolbar.
• Select your Mac Hard Drive partition from the list on the left.
• At the bottom of the window click 'Repair Disk Permissions'.

If you get any message saying "Permissions differ on…", when the scan is complete repeat until no error messages appear (or the only messages are "We are using special permissions on…" which can safely be ignored).

Then log out and in again, or just restart. Hopefully your icons will be back.

[jbarley]

Have you by any chance renamed your Home Folder?
The symptoms you mention would seen to indicate something as such.

jb.

[VirtualTracy]

Have you been using any haxies that modify system settings like themes etc?

Look for your files at this location to see if they are there:

MacintoshHD ~> Users