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Panther: Documents folder disappeared!!!??!!
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Hani
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Jul 19, 2005, 01:50 PM
 
all of a sudden out of nowhere, i cant find my documents folder, and i know that no way would i have deleted it. last time i used it was to move a file from the desktop through quicksilver to the documents folder. anyone knows how i can find it, or if there is a utility to recover anything out of it, it is very very important
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Jul 19, 2005, 03:01 PM
 
Are you running Tiger? Did you try to do a search with Spotligth/Finder?
     
Hani  (op)
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Jul 19, 2005, 03:26 PM
 
running panther, tried the find with finder and came up with nothing
     
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Jul 19, 2005, 03:41 PM
 
Sounds like it might be lost. Just get the data off your backup.
     
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Jul 20, 2005, 11:03 PM
 
Originally Posted by Fusion
Sounds like it might be lost. Just get the data off your backup.
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CharlesS
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Jul 20, 2005, 11:39 PM
 
If you deleted it, you might be able to get it back with Data Rescue, although the odds shrink dramatically if you've used the drive much at all since then.

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Jul 23, 2005, 11:27 PM
 
Originally Posted by Fusion
Sounds like it might be lost. Just get the data off your backup.
Teaching him/her a lesson, eh? I didn't read anything about a backup. Are you pretending to have a false assumption, in an attempt to make Hani feel like ****? That's really sweet of you!
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Jul 24, 2005, 02:15 AM
 
Originally Posted by tavilach
Teaching him/her a lesson, eh? I didn't read anything about a backup. Are you pretending to have a false assumption, in an attempt to make Hani feel like ****? That's really sweet of you!
It wasn't a lesson at all. If the person has a regularly scheduled backup, it sounds like it might be more time conscious to just use the backup data and cut your losses. Data recovery can be a time consuming and expensive process, so sometimes it's easier in these situations to get cut back a week and use backup data.

I didn't read anything about a backup either. If I lost my data, I probably wouldn't mention mine. So what?

What are you talking about dumb ass?
     
   
 
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