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Yesterday the Safari 3.1.1 update somehow managed to delete my user folder. After the restart my entire user folder had gone along with all my settings. I have since recovered my files using Data Rescue and Firewire, but there is now another problem. While summing the contents of Mac HD comes to little under 20gb, finder is telling me I have only 10gb of my 60gb HD free. This is the same amount as before the user folder was deleted. This means I am unable to move any of my recovered files of a friends mac back onto my own. Is there anyway to get the HD to recalculate its free space? And of course, if anyone knows of a simple solution to recover my user folder fairly easily (as the recovered folders using data rescue have all come back unnamed and all need sorting) then that would also be useful!!! But I'm not hopeful on that one...
Just to confirm though, all the files from my user folder are definitely not in finder anywhere. I have searched both manually and using the search bar for both files as they were named originally and with the names they have come back with via data rescue. And the total sum of all the folders in HD are about 10gb less than what was recovered, so they wouldn't fit anyway!
Thanks

Thanks, I will look at that this evening. In other news... I did a verify disk scan with disk utility and it came back with this
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid node structure
Volume check failed.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
I have been told that i could do something with the leopard disk, but unfortunately that is in another country to me. I am intending to get a new macbook once they are revised so don't really want to spend much, if any, money on this problem if it can be avoided.
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