repair disk and lost settings?

JRY

JRY

JRY

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Hi guys
my MBP failed the disk verification in diskutility and when I repaired it (boot off
OSX disk and running disk util) I lost a lot of settings!! eg. some of my widgets are missing, lost a lot of personalised settings, and even firefox bookmarks!!!

has anyone experienced this before?
Should I worry about it happening again?


cheers
 
JRY said:
i know m8 :(
its a huge hassel.
am debating whether to reformat & reinstall OSX
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reinstalling it is not much of hassle, but still it takes time to do it and then fine tune your system again
 
Will_3rd said:
reinstalling it is not much of hassle, but still it takes time to do it and then fine tune your system again
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All 10 minutes? :rolleyes:

Customising the system is hardly a chore either..
 
EVH said:
All 10 minutes? :rolleyes:

Customising the system is hardly a chore either..
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it takes well over an hour to reinstall osx! ive done it a few times :eek: :confused:
 
Cogent said:
it takes well over an hour to reinstall osx! ive done it a few times :eek: :confused:
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That's if your wiping the disc clean with zeros.. a simple reinstall takes 15mins max ;)
 
This may be a bit of a long shot but have you tried verifying and repairing permissions in Disk Utility? It could be that due to some form of filesystem corruption that these files have incorrectly-set permissions and thus OS X is unable to read/ write to them and is using a default template of some form.
 
Thanks for the replies guys.
M0KUJ1N repairing permissions was the next thing i tired, still no joy.

Have just reformatted and reinstalled OSX anyway :D
just downloading updates now and will have to reinstall and re personalise my settings.

thanks again all
 
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