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</head><body>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>Claire<br>
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On July 28, 2019 at 3:11 PM Claire Huttlinger <chuttlinger@comcast.net> wrote:
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<br>So, Robert:
<br>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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On July 28, 2019 at 3:02 PM Robert Heller <
<a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com">heller@deepsoft.com</a>> wrote:
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<br>At Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:44:06 -0400
<a href="mailto:shel@principledprofit.com">shel@principledprofit.com</a> wrote:
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<br>Try searching for a couple of keywords in one of the documents. If it shows
<br>up, you will see the folder hierarchy. It is possible you accidentally
<br>renamed the documents folder and it's all still there.
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<br>And if a finder search doesn't help, try searching from within an
<br>application such as word. The Mac's find function got a lot funkier several
<br>years ago. Though it is still way better than a PC.
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<br>Two other possibilities:
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<br>Could you have *somehow* renamed the folder to have a period as its first
<br>character? Files and directories whose names start with a period (under
<br>UNIX/Posix O/Ss) are considered "hidden" and don't show up under "normal"
<br>conditions. (MacOSX *is* UNIX, under the hood.)
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<br>Secondly, Since MacOSX *is* UNIX, under the hood, you also have this
<br>option:
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<br>Open a Terminal (yes, I know were are entering the totally scary (?) world of
<br>the command like) and enter (with the keyboard!):
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<br>find -name "*one of your missing document names*"
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<br>(The '"' and '*' are needed -- I am guessing your documents have "funny"
<br>characters, like spaces in them and you probably have no clue about the
<br>document's "suffix".) Don't forget to press ENTER and the end of the command.
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<br>You can also try:
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<br>ls -A
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<br>(The find command recursively traverses your directory tree, the ls command
<br>with the -A open will show hidden files and directories.)
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<br>Also, my MacMini has the locate command (I don't know if that is a standard
<br>feature of MacOSX or if I installed it as an after market thing, maybe with
<br>MacPorts). So that is another way of finding files.
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 12:15 PM Claire Huttlinger via Hidden-discuss <
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Greetings:
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Does anyone know how to recover a document folder form a Mac OS hard
<br>drive? I have mysteriously lost one, and I have not emptied my trash or
<br>anything. The folder and and all the documents it contained have
<br>disappeared from every history, the trash, the finder, everywhere. Any
<br>thoughts?
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