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<div class="">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.<br class="">Claire<br class="">
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On July 28, 2019 at 3:11 PM Claire Huttlinger <<a href="mailto:chuttlinger@comcast.net" class="">chuttlinger@comcast.net</a>> wrote:
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<br class="">So, Robert:
<br class="">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
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<br class="">At Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:44:06 -0400
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<br class="">Try searching for a couple of keywords in one of the documents. If it shows
<br class="">up, you will see the folder hierarchy. It is possible you accidentally
<br class="">renamed the documents folder and it's all still there.
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<br class="">And if a finder search doesn't help, try searching from within an
<br class="">application such as word. The Mac's find function got a lot funkier several
<br class="">years ago. Though it is still way better than a PC.
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<br class="">Two other possibilities:
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<br class="">Could you have *somehow* renamed the folder to have a period as its first
<br class="">character? Files and directories whose names start with a period (under
<br class="">UNIX/Posix O/Ss) are considered "hidden" and don't show up under "normal"
<br class="">conditions. (MacOSX *is* UNIX, under the hood.)
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<br class="">Secondly, Since MacOSX *is* UNIX, under the hood, you also have this
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<br class="">Open a Terminal (yes, I know were are entering the totally scary (?) world of
<br class="">the command like) and enter (with the keyboard!):
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<br class="">find -name "*one of your missing document names*"
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<br class="">(The '"' and '*' are needed -- I am guessing your documents have "funny"
<br class="">characters, like spaces in them and you probably have no clue about the
<br class="">document's "suffix".) Don't forget to press ENTER and the end of the command.
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<br class="">You can also try:
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<br class="">ls -A
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<br class="">(The find command recursively traverses your directory tree, the ls command
<br class="">with the -A open will show hidden files and directories.)
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<br class="">Also, my MacMini has the locate command (I don't know if that is a standard
<br class="">feature of MacOSX or if I installed it as an after market thing, maybe with
<br class="">MacPorts). So that is another way of finding files.
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Greetings:
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Does anyone know how to recover a document folder form a Mac OS hard
<br class="">drive? I have mysteriously lost one, and I have not emptied my trash or
<br class="">anything. The folder and and all the documents it contained have
<br class="">disappeared from every history, the trash, the finder, everywhere. Any
<br class="">thoughts?
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