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

[John Bozaan]

This might help you: https://superuser.com/a/226571

> On Jul 28, 2019, at 3:20 PM, Claire Huttlinger via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
> 
> Robert, can you tell me specifically what the command for finding a file is? I tried find -name and they say that the -n is not recognized. I tried a few others, but I have not found the command to bring up any file, even ones I know are there. Usually there is $ somehere.
> Claire
> 
>> On July 28, 2019 at 3:11 PM Claire Huttlinger <chuttlinger at comcast.net> wrote: 
>> 
>> 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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