[KidRed]

I created a folder last week, and worked on a new graphic project for a client. That was Friday. I don't work on the weekend so today i was going to work on it some more in PS 7. So, this morning I had an issue with my scanner, so I trashed the HP prefs and made news ones. During that, X froze. I had to reboot, I fixed permissions and ran fsck -f at start up. Everything was cool except the last 2 emails that came in were gone. I shrugged it off because the scanner now worked and I was about to work on that file again. So I opened up PS finder to the directory and couldn't find the folder. I searched my drives, nothing. I downloaded and tried Data Recovery X, it found nothing.

Anything else i can try? Can you recover files from PS's scratch disk? Is there another app I can try? I didn't delete or erase the files, it was more like lost data during a crash or something. I'm really stuck here, between the client and the fact the job was turning out very nice and I don't think I can remember enough of it to re-do it correctly.

[Detrius]

Two things:

1-If journaling were turned on, you should not have had this issue of dissappearing files after a force-reboot
2-The term "hard freeze" is becoming frustratingly ambiguous. OS X does NOT freeze (like OS 9 did). If your mouse does not move, you have a hardware problem. It could be as bad as a dying processor or as simple as a mouse cord, but it is a hardware problem that you should get fixed.