Mike, Try the keyboard command for " find" (Command+F) or (when you are in the Finder (Bold far right of menu bar), click on File and at the bottom see FIND. Click on it and enter the name of any file you lost in dragging to see where it ended up.) Maybe the "lost files" are on the desktop somewhere, or they got dropped into another folder. Good luck hunting.
Anne P. S. Mark and Ward. Thanks for the help last night, it was a great meeting. Now I have to bite the bullet and get a external HD and Retrospect to back up. Before I lose something. On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Mike Watkins wrote: > Mark and Ward, > > Thanks for the help. I came home and immediately took everything out > of my Macintosh HD Documents file and distributed the stuff in my Home > files. It will probably prove to be easier somewhere down the line. I > lost a couple of items while I was dragging them to my desktop in the > process of the transfers. Where do things like that go? They weren't > in my trash. I did look there. No telling what Purgatorial spot they > are trapped within! > > I also tried, under Mail,to go to Edit, to Attachments, to Always send > in Windows acceptable/compatible(?) mode. There is no such route in > Jaguar. Must be a Panther thing. I will try soon to get Toast and some > DVD's to use for backing up my system. > > Appreciate the answers, even if I didn't truly understand all of them > completely. > > Mike > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be June 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
