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Fixing my wife's iMac data

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A couple of days ago, my wife did something and her Mac started
running maybe all of her applications at once.   She didn't know what
to do and pressed the off button in back.   It looked OK when it
rebooted.

Today she downloaded a bunch of things from where she does some
part-time work.    Then she tried to toss her downloaded items to the
trash, but it failed.   She doesn't remember the error message.

Then she went to the trash to empty it.   It told her that she had 4-5
thousand things in it and started, but failed.   She empties the trash
more than weekly, so she didn't expect stuff in the trash.    She
looked in it and saw lots of folders.   She tried to run a couple of
games she owns, but they said she needed to pay for them.


She saw a bunch of deleted folders, including a couple that look like
data folders for games, log files for applications (Duplicate
Annihilator Pro), and Library.    Library contains a whole bunch of
folders such as "Safari" & "Widgets".    I went to Time Machine and
these are apparently in her "Pat Brazee" root folder.

I copied from the trash to these folders, not replacing anything that
was newer.  (and going within folders to repeat).   I could restore
from Time Machine instead.    

I opened two games that she had - one remembered her.  The other
remembered she owns it, but forgot her.   I suppose it created a file
that got overwritten when she tried running it earlier.   

I'm thinking my best bet now is to use Time Machine to restore every
folder in "PatBrazee" from yesterday.   Anybody disagree?   She
doesn't think she would lose anything (but maybe would lose e-mail???)

I discovered that when she downloads and installs a new program, she
doesn't eject the virtual disk.   I told her to see me so that I can
show her again what she should be ejecting.   But I don't know how to
stop this from happening again.   I know that when I run her 2.16 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo with 2G 667 MHzx DDRw SDRAM with 10.6.7 Snow Leopard,
it seems slow - I tend to get impatient with her mouse.    I haven't
tried deleting anything from her trash after dragging what I could to
her root.   I may have to use Unix commands do empty her trash.

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Fixing my wife's iMac data Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> - 2011-06-06 15:55 -0600
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