Installed Leopard and lost some files
I installed Leopard onto my computer yesterday, and I noticed that I lost a folder that was containing some movies I had. As far as I know, this is the only folder I'm missing. I already used spotlight to see if it was moved but it seems to have disappeared? Help would be great please???
Silencer wrote:
Okay, I believe I may have found the movies using Data Recovery. It says they were in applications/utilities/java/J2SE 5.0/Movies How they got there I have no clue. I went to my current applications/utilities/java folder on my computer, and the J2SE 5.0 folder isn't there anymore? Where did it go?
For whatever reason, your original movies were in that java folder. It might have been selected as a default accidentally - many times if the app finds the items, we never check to see where they actually are and we simply select the last folder some other app used.
I believe that Leopard has a different java structure than Tiger which would explain why they went away.
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