all of my files are missing-please help

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For a couple of months, whenever I turned on my macbook occasionally there would be no files on my desktop, but whenever I log out of my user and log back in the files reappeared with no problem. Tonight i tried logging out and back in order to get access to my files and no luck. I shut down, waited and restarted and still all of my files are missing. The only thing on my desktop is Macintosh HD, and in finder my desktop, documents, and library folders show up, but there is nothing in any of them. Also, in my admin account it was telling me "folder ___ can not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges",but I managed to fix this through Get Info>Ownership & Permissions, even still once I could open the folder it was empty. Can someone please tell me what i need to do? My system is Mac OS X 10.4.10, and i have not made any recent updates.


edit: I just scanned my user folder with a free demo of Data Rescue II, and can see that all my files still exist somewhere on my computer, but I can not afford to buy the actual program at this time, anyone know what I should do?

Thanks,
Christen
 
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Hello Cristen,
Start by repairing diskpermissions on your harddrive with the disktool in the utilities folder:
Macintosh HD/applications/utilities/disktool
don't bother checking just repair directly

Restart your machine holding down the shift key until the grey apple appears.
When the machine reaches the login window (it will take a while), you restart the machine again and sees if things are OK now.

If things are OK you update the system (applemenu/softwareupdate)
 
Are you sure you are logged in as "You?" What you describe is what I see whenever I am logged out.

--J.D.
 
i have logged in under both of my user accounts and even enabled the root account(system administrator) and the problem is the same with all three
 
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