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

[Claire Huttlinger]

I found it! I don't know why my previous rumaging through the trash didn't work, but this time it appeared. Thanks very much to all for your input. I will backup my files immediately!
'night!


> On July 28, 2019 at 9:12 PM Claire Huttlinger <chuttlinger at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>     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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