Strange things are happening with my beloved Cube running Jaguar 10.2.8....
I downloaded about 30 gig from my DV camera and started editing it in iMovie. After a about 4 hours i saved the project to my desktop and went to bed without shutting down my cube (my cube is always on). The next day, the folder was just gone!?
Info for the disk now reports free space as if the folder was deleted. The next day, when I went to check email in the morning, the cube had entered sleep during the night although preferences is set to never sleep. (Due to my powerlogix CPU the cube now longer wakes from sleep). I therefore forced a reboot. When the desktop came up, the name of my second partition was gone, although the disk was still on the desktop. I have gotten pretty nervous due to these mysterious problems.
I have diskwarrior 3, but my boot cd is severely scratched and the cube won't boot from it. I tried to rebuild the second partition with the installed DW app, but due to an error with a MAC service(?), no rebuilding could be done (directory could not be replaced). However, the errors noted on this volume was only minor and related to folder flags of another iMovie project.
I suspect that the filesystem on my boot volume have become somewhat corrupted, but I really don't know for sure. I am afraid of touching the mac untill this is fixed.
Has anyone encountered such mysterious things before? What is the cause of this and how should I safely go about fixing it? Is there anyway to recover the missing iMovie project?
Should I run fsck or order and wait for another DW3 CD? In the manual Alsoft recommends not running other apps to fix disks... What is the risk?
*really baffled*
Sophus
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