The Mystery of th e Disappearing Folder/Files!
Folks
Either gremlins or viruses [virii?] have suddenly begun to cause whole files/folders to disappear into a black hole! First of all a whole folder of photos I had scanned from slides that were located on my external Lacie just plain vanished into the ether! My Mac has been behaving a bit erratically lately, but now about 75% of my fonts (all except the system ones, I believe) have done too.
A search using the name of one of the missing fonts brings up nothing!
After the photos disappeared I did a complete re-install of Tiger and upgraded to 10.4.8
I have done a Hardware Test and all shows to be okay! Also ran Disk Warrior, but still no joy.
Now running ClamXav v.1.0.4 to see if a virus (WHAT? This is a Mac!) has invaded.
Does anyone have a clue about what may be happening.
Help would be VERY much appreciated.
Regards
Roy
I am having a similar problem with my G4 laptop running 10.4.8. All of the files that I had on my desktop have disappeared. If I try to copy a new file to the desktop, it is visable during the copy but immediately disappears after the copy is complete. If I try to copy the file again, I get the dialog box asking me if I want to replace the item already there.
I thought at first it just might be a visibility problem. I opened up the terminal and cd'd to y Desktop folder. Nothing there. I am quite perplexed. Anybody with any ideas?
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