On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 17:08 US/Central, Kris wrote:
In trying to neaten up my hard drive today, discovered a folder called "Lost
and Found". The files inside are labeled "hardlink" with a long number after
them. None will open. Is it safe to dump this folder in the trash, and
eliminate it? What mysterious revolt of electrons created it?
Probably fsck (the filesystem consistency checker) apparently found some files that were unnamed. I would have expected for historical reasons to have the folder named lost+found, but for some reason Apple seems to like spaces in file names. I can live with that, but I draw the line at apostrophes, which also crop up from time to time. The man entry for fsck does claim it uses lost+found, but we all know how documentation ages....
Unless you can tell what the files are, there's no point in keeping them. However, if you're missing some files recently, you might open these using an explicit application to see if they're your missing chillun.
Regards,
Mike Beede
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