HELP! Microsoft office suite has disappeared along with college work!

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rachelfish

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It's probably my own fault for not buying the software, but i got a brand new ibook g4 last week and my friend who has the microsoft office package for mac put it on my computer for me.

So i'm working away at my essay this morning, then i go out for a couple of hours, turn on my computer and the Tiger registration page appears! All my personal touchs are gone, ie scroll pad clicking and a smaller dock, different desktop background etc. It's as though the computer has reset itself?

Most of my applications are there, except microsoft works. Because i've been using Word to write my essays, they've gone too, and i really need them!

Anyone any idea??

Thanks. rach =)
 
Rachel,

You need to calm down and think carefully about what happened. It is almost impossible for things to have gone as you reported them here. The only way for you to have lost your work is for you to have never saved it or to have deliberately deleted it and deliberately emptied the trash.

There is no Microsoft Works for MacOS X and none for MacOS 9 for many, many years. Microsoft Word is an application in the Microsoft Office suite.

The only thing that I can figure is that you were running Word off the distribution CD rather than the copy installed on your computer (which I didn't think was possible). In fact, it is not clear that "your friend" ever installed it on your computer. To be clear, to install Office, drag the Office folder from the CD to your Applications folder. Do not drag it onto the Desktop.
 
hey, thanks for response.

Because i was in such a tizzy i overlooked the documents in my 'recent items' area, so college work is safe.
Microsoft works is still there and working fine.

The problem is, all my pictures and itunes files have gone, as well as old college work which thankfully was saved on an ipod shuffle. My desktop settings were all back to default mode also.

Although my work is safe, I'm scared this is going to happen again because i had absolutely no warning last time.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks.
 
Are you sure your friend didn't log into another account that he/she might have created? GO to System Preferences--User Accounts and see if there's more than one account. If so, try logging in as any of the other accounts. It could be that the account that logged in now might be set to automatically log in if the computer restarts, resulting in a different desktop thanthe one you normally use.
 
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