[Hidden-tech] Recover lost documents on Mac OS (no icloud)

[Claire Huttlinger]

So, Robert:
I have a tiny bit of experience with Terminal. I went in to look for temporary folders ($TMPDIR) and found that my list does not look exactly like the one in the example: a folder called qw was missing. I have no idea what that means, but there may be a root folder missing or a permissions problem. I will try the find name thing you suggest.Thanks

> On July 28, 2019 at 3:02 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com mailto:heller at deepsoft.com > wrote:
> 
> 
>     At Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:44:06 -0400 shel at principledprofit.com mailto:shel at principledprofit.com wrote:
> 
>         > > 
> >         Try searching for a couple of keywords in one of the documents. If it shows
> >         up, you will see the folder hierarchy. It is possible you accidentally
> >         renamed the documents folder and it's all still there.
> > 
> >         And if a finder search doesn't help, try searching from within an
> >         application such as word. The Mac's find function got a lot funkier several
> >         years ago. Though it is still way better than a PC.
> > 
> >     >     Two other possibilities:
> 
>     Could you have *somehow* renamed the folder to have a period as its first
>     character? Files and directories whose names start with a period (under
>     UNIX/Posix O/Ss) are considered "hidden" and don't show up under "normal"
>     conditions. (MacOSX *is* UNIX, under the hood.)
> 
>     Secondly, Since MacOSX *is* UNIX, under the hood, you also have this
>     option:
> 
>     Open a Terminal (yes, I know were are entering the totally scary (?) world of
>     the command like) and enter (with the keyboard!):
> 
>     find -name "*one of your missing document names*"
> 
>     (The '"' and '*' are needed -- I am guessing your documents have "funny"
>     characters, like spaces in them and you probably have no clue about the
>     document's "suffix".) Don't forget to press ENTER and the end of the command.
> 
>     You can also try:
> 
>     ls -A
> 
>     (The find command recursively traverses your directory tree, the ls command
>     with the -A open will show hidden files and directories.)
> 
>     Also, my MacMini has the locate command (I don't know if that is a standard
>     feature of MacOSX or if I installed it as an after market thing, maybe with
>     MacPorts). So that is another way of finding files.
> 
> 
>         > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 12:15 PM Claire Huttlinger via Hidden-discuss <
> >         hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > wrote:
> > 
> >             > > > Greetings:
> > > 
> > >         > > 
> >             > > > Does anyone know how to recover a document folder form a Mac OS hard
> > >             drive? I have mysteriously lost one, and I have not emptied my trash or
> > >             anything. The folder and and all the documents it contained have
> > >             disappeared from every history, the trash, the finder, everywhere. Any
> > >             thoughts?
> > > 
> > >         > > 
> >             > > > Claire
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