Umm, help? Jaguar problem.

[mattblakk]

Something very weird happened to my ibook today.

I turned it on once and got the black screen of death telling me I needed to power off and restart. Did that and everthing seemed fine. Started it up a couple more times and shut down normally. Then I tried to start it again and all of my files are gone. All of the stuff from my profile has just disappeared.

I turned off file vault thinking it was the culprit.

Tried to open the mattrice.sparseimage - that looks like it has the right size to be all of my data, but it is asking me for the "login" keychain password, and I type in the only password I have on this machine and it doesn't work.

Anyone know anything about this stuff? I sure as hell don't.

Comments

[swimunderground.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant just phoning them for starters. If it's about filevault... what struck me about filevault was how much the manual and even the one-sheet infocard stated that if you lost your password for it, your data was lost forever. If this were somehow remotely possibly true, it would be something to hide, not something to trumpet... so maybe you've snafu'd (or the ibook has) yourself into some scenario where The Filevault Password Has Been Lost. And maybe Apple folks can tell you how to undo it. (except they're closed now, the buggers)

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[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

I have somehow managed to mount the filevault thingy as a virtual disk and I'm copying all the files onto a data DVD.

But I think in the end I will end up doing a clean install and not using the filevault thing until it gets another update or something.

At least my data has miraculously reappeared.

Thanks for your words of moral support. Dunno what I did, but I'm going to just wait until it's all archived off on the DVD before I touch anything else.

[swimunderground.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad to hear that data has reappeared in some fashion. I haven't gone near filevault yet, partially because of the Stern Warning.

hugs to you, friend.