hey, sadly i do not have a backup. i had just edited these files at least in the trash i still have the old unedited copies. you can lose files on windows as well if you stop a file move. On 04/05/2013, at 6:56 PM, "David Griffith" <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Do you have a Time machine backup? > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Michael Marshall > Sent: 04 May 2013 04:38 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: major problem with finder > > hey, > thanks for getting back to me on this. > i tryed getting the system to show hidden files but no dice. > thanks again. > Michael > On 04/05/2013, at 12:09 PM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> I've never done file moves and stopped the process midway like that. I > think that if you had tried to do an "undo" with Command+z immediately > after, you might have been able to get the files back to where they started > (depending on how you performed the move; and this doesn't work once the > files in question are no longer highlighted under the last action). My > guess is that they're on your system, but that you stopped the reindexing of > the new path to the files in the middle. If this were on my Mac I'd use the > Terminal in command line mode to query the directories in question, and get > a listing of the file contents, including "hidden files", in order of > modification time, assuming that you haven't been changing lots of files in > those directories since then, but you'll need to hear from someone with more > experience with this process. Maybe Travis, or someone else with system > experience can weigh in. In the meantime, sit tight, and don't worry too > much about this. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On May 3, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >>> hello listers, >>> i was on my mac this morning when i thought i would move some files from > one folder to another sounds simple. >>> when the move was taking place for some stupid reason i hit the stop > button and now the files are missing no where to be found. >>> has anyone had this happen to them? has the mac put the missing files > somewhere? i checked trash and they are not in there. >>> thanks for any help. >>> Michael >>> >>> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum > at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >> >> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure > that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. 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