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<div>Please see this link on Luminous Landscape:
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<div>I would guess that it addresses this issue.
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<br /> From: William James <wtjames@mac.com>
<br /> To: Dave Sevick <dave@davesevick.com>
<br /> Cc: NPMUG <npmug@davesevick.com>
<br /> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:10:59 -0400
<br /> Subject: Re: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install
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<br /> Your last comment applies to me, Dave. I installed Epson 10.6x
drivers from Epson for an NX400. They don't work.
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<div>If you find anything please let us know.
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<div>So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know
what you've got till it's gone ...."
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<div>My apologies to <a
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other Ladies of the Canyon for recycling the lyrics</a> .
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<div>The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased
all their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music
and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to retrieve
anything.
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<div>In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their
Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6
installation.
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<div>I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done ....
but listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer
failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old boxes to
find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..."
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<div>I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can
tell you that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your
favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can really be
heartbreaking.
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<div>Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new
10.5.1 data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of
getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very expensive.
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<div>Moving forward :
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<div>1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began
anew !
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<div>2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they
had photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back
back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst all
other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple Store will
look into this with them.
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<div>3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed !
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<div>4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1
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<div>5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched.
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<div>6. Grief counseling and pep talk.
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<div>btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers
from <a href="http://epson.com">epson.com</a> .... they don't work !
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<div>Researching the cause this weekend.
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<div>I hope this story helps to educate and warn people ....
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