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

[Claire Huttlinger]

OK, I am getting something. I don't undertand it, but I am getting a long list Library files that end in "operation not permitted", but way at the end I am seeing references to the documents in my missing folder. It is buried in with some other, unrelated, files. Here is a copy of that part of the result:
find: ./Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing: Operation not permitted
./.Trash/RE_ Hay plazas para el tour eclipse_/Theory & Practice of Acquiring a Second Language 2019/Huttlinger-TPASL-Observation#1(060219).pdf
./.Trash/RE_ Hay plazas para el tour eclipse_/Theory & Practice of Acquiring a Second Language 2019/Huttlinger-TPASL-Observation#1(060219).pages
./.Trash/RE_ Hay plazas para el tour eclipse_/Theory & Practice of Acquiring a Second Language 2019/Huttlinger-TPASL-Observation#1(060219).docx
Claires-MacBook-Pro:~ clairehuttlinger$

Those words "Theory & Practice of Acquiring a Second Language 2019" is the title of my missing folder, and "Observation#1" is the file I searched for. I don't know how it got onto the same path as the "eclipse tour", and all of it seems to be somewhere in the trash.

This is most promising result yet.
Any clue where to go from here?

> On July 28, 2019 at 7:46 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com mailto:heller at deepsoft.com > wrote:
> 
> 
>     At Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:18:48 -0400 (EDT) Claire Huttlinger <chuttlinger at comcast.net mailto:chuttlinger at comcast.net > wrote:
> 
>         > > 
> >         Hi Annamarie:
> >         Sooo, I backed up everything in Time Machine about a month ago, so a WAY
> >         previous version of this folder is probably there, but not the all the work
> >         I've done since.
> > 
> >     >     Well, backing up once a month is better than not backing up at all... *I* run
>     an automated backup *everyday* on all the computers on my LAN (7 actual
>     machines (AMD Linux desktop , Intel Linux laptop, MacMini (MacOSX), 4
>     Raspberry Pis, 6 VMs (assorted Linux)). Backups are best done as often as
>     possible. Daily is great, weekly is *probably* alright for most people.
> 
>         > > Unfortunately I have never used iCloud.
> >         I'm afraid to back it up again until I know where this folder has gone.
> >         Claire
> > 
> >             > > > On July 28, 2019 at 3:12 PM Annamarie Pluhar <annamarie at PatientSympatheticCoaching.com mailto:annamarie at PatientSympatheticCoaching.com mailto:annamarie at PatientSympatheticCoaching.com mailto:annamarie at PatientSympatheticCoaching.com > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             Look for it in your Time Machine backup. You do have one, don’t you?
> > > 
> > >             Annamarie
> > > 
> > >             P.S. Any chance it decided to be in your iCloud account?
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             On 28 Jul 2019, at 12:15, Claire Huttlinger via Hidden-discuss 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?
> > > >                 >
> > > > 
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