No with enough knowledge of the OS to know about invisible folders had access to the computer. Of that I am sure. They had just moved from their old apartment to a new house and they just shut down and moved the computer (which worked fine for a couple of days after the move; well enough that I was able to connect it to their new broadband connection).
The reinstall was necessary because the computer wouldn't even boot. It got to the gray screen and no further. I tried booting into safe mode, but no help there and then into single user mode and running "fsck" with no joy. You may be right that it was in the Trash and moved there, although other files that were in the Trash remained there after the reinstall. Any, at this point, it's mainly of academic interest and I wanted to understand what happened in order to prevent a similar problem in the future on this or another system. On 4/28/04 12:56 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/28/04 9:31 AM, "Domenico Bettinelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Right there, at the root level of the hard drive, in a hidden folder called >> "lost+found" was the complete Main Identity folder. >> >> I'm still curious about how the files ended up in there. Was it OS X or >> Entourage? > > Neither, I suspect. Perhaps OS X (see below). > >> Why put a recovered file in an invisible folder? That seems to >> defeat the purpose. > > Why indeed? Who's had access to that computer recently? Someone has been > "clever". You did say " (I suspect she had been letting her kids bang on > the keyboard again and they did something.) After much troubleshooting, I > was finally able to do an Archive and Reinstall." > > It's barely possible that if it were in the trash to begin with it might end > up in an invisible folder after an Archive and Install. (Why'd you do that > anyway? What did this have to do with the OS?) But most unlikely. It sounds > more like someone put it there intentionally. -- Domenico Bettinelli, Jr.<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><http://www.bettnet.com/> The Bettnet blog <http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php> Catholic World News <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.cwnews.com/> Managing Editor, Catholic World Report magazine -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
