thanks apple!
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- ********
i went to delete my trash can (just a couple of things in it) and then I go to my Finder window and my Documents folder isn't there.. "cannot be found". I restarted, but still nothing. My Doc's folder wasn't even in the trash - I always open the trash to make sure I don't throw anything away that I need.
wtf am I supposed to do? :(
- ribit0
Where did you see "cannot be found"?
- ribit0
and have you done a search for 'Documents' across the whole disk?
- ********0
In the Finder window, at the top...
"GO > RECENT FOLDERS > DOCUMENTS"
- ********0
yeah, i searched for it...
one item found:
Library>WebServer>DOCUMENTS> ... then some random html files from Apache. (nothing to do with my system's actual documents)
- ribit0
And you've looked in your own User folder to check you havent accidently renamed it there?
- ribit0
Do you have backups?
If No > time to start doing it.
- PonyBoy0
dwight wiped your drive...
... i watched him (well... I remote-viewed it).. :)
- eric_i_e0
Well after you try all the obvious stuff, you could use File Salvage as a last resort.
http://tinyurl.com/d7bvdI've had mixed results with it generally but it has saved some important stuff for me.
- forcetwelve0
data rescue 2. free trial on their site. recovers deleted files
- Seff0
totally apple's fault
- ********0
this sounds like a job for.....
TIME MACHINE!!!
too bad its about 6 months away :p
- rafalski0
isn't time machine going to make copies of your drive? gigabytes after gigabytes each day? That seems absurd to me, and looking at iphoto keeping 3 versions of each image in cache, it is what they'll probably do.
- ribit0
After the initial copy it will only store the changes/additions...all backup systems work this way..you have to store something...
- ornj0
I've had random files go missing. Often times this happens when I'm editing files that aren't local or something shuts down wrong. Flash has been aweful with this, often times creating a useless swf file and erasing the associated fla from existance.
- ********0
My portfolio work is all on a Lacie External (backed up a while ago). So now that I think about it, I didn't really lose anything important - nothing I can't live without.
I still love my mac :)