I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see "System no longer boots" and "How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?"
Now my problem is different, and stranger. I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working reasonably. So I powered down. The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up from the command line, but not from the GUI! Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: Document file 'xxxxx.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANbRw9mUqXFSptOOLo_zmYcaxrMPNFHOOdvDSZba=nf5fhY=n...@mail.gmail.com