[Cipher13]

I have a folder in my Home folder called "Backups". Within that, I have 3.13 gigs of data.

Viewing Home as a list verifies that. Opening the folder reveals no items.

This folder is extremely important... I only noticed this the other day. A week or so ago the folder was fine.

In the terminal, ls shows one item that should not be invisible.

ls -a shows ~30 items; some which should be invisible (.irssi, .zshrc, etc), and many which should not.

I'm utterly confused. I've tried moving the folder, same thing; I'm gonna try copying it via Finder and then Terminal. Firstly I'm gonna see if OS9 can see the files though.

Has anyone seen this before?

TIA.

[dot_nix]

Originally posted by Cipher13:
I have a folder in my Home folder called "Backups". Within that, I have 3.13 gigs of data.

Viewing Home as a list verifies that. Opening the folder reveals no items.

This folder is extremely important... I only noticed this the other day. A week or so ago the folder was fine.

In the terminal, ls shows one item that should not be invisible.

ls -a shows ~30 items; some which should be invisible (.irssi, .zshrc, etc), and many which should not.

I'm utterly confused. I've tried moving the folder, same thing; I'm gonna try copying it via Finder and then Terminal. Firstly I'm gonna see if OS9 can see the files though.

Has anyone seen this before?

TIA.

First time I've heard or read anyone having that problem. Just doesn't make sense if Finder can view it but no files and ls -a shows 30 items. Any details on the OS your running or apps running at that time? Maybe Safari was the culprit? If you are using the old version (b 48, the first one they released) there is a serious bug causing data loss. Try a
ln -s /private/tmp /tmp
this restores a link to the /tmp file which safari breaks. Fixed all of my serious problems after I installed safari. The new version fixes this issue.

PS PLEASE POST IF YOU FIND A SOLUTION