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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!apple!dlyons
- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Finder Lost Files
- Message-ID: <75614@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 14:49:45 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.005608.13495@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Dec15.005608.13495@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters) writes:
- >1. I was at the highest level of my HD's second partition (H2) and
- >2. I had subdirectory "W71" selected without meaning to.
- >
- >3. I then pressed the Shift key and selected X071.SHK and X072.SHK
- > which I wanted to delete.
- >
- >4. As I moved the three files towards the trashcan I saw my
- > mistake and moved them back to H2. (All three still selected)
- >
- >5. I hit the mouse button whil not on top of any of the three and
- > nothing happened.
- >
- >6. I then hit the mouse button two or three times very quickly and
- > all three disappeared. Nothing was in the trash can and it had
- > not flashed during this period.
- >
- >7. I then tried:
- > a. Mr. Fixit from ProSel 16 - No errors
- > b. Exume Files from ProSel 16 - My files didn't appear
- > c. Undelete files from Copy ][ + - Lost files message
- > d. Undelete from UtilityWorks - Block Busy message.
- > e. Mr. Fixit Master Directory option - No errors.
- >
- >I'm fairly certain that the files are on my HD and are somehow
- >removed from the directory, memory not idled, and yet Prosel
- >doesn't see this as an error.
-
- I'm not familiar with how all those utilities behave, but here's my
- best guess:
-
- When you were dragging the files back to the main H2 window, you
- let go of them on top of some other folder, without realizing it.
- So they aren't deleted, they just aren't where you wanted them.
-
- Try a Find File on the whole disk and see if they're hiding
- somewhere.
-
- If that's not it...well, somebody else take a guess!
- --
- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
- Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875
- Internet:dlyons@apple.com | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
-
- My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
-