On Oct 4, 2011, at 17:13 , Dan Crutcher wrote: > Today I was searching for some files on an external hard drive (a Drobo with > four drives and about 16TB capacity if it makes any difference) and, while > opening a folder on that drive something happened and a group of folders, 11 > to be exact, that had been in the same directory as the one I was opening > suddenly disappeared. > > My first thought was that I had somehow accidentally selected those folders > and accidentally dragged them into another folder, so I used Spotlight to > search for those folder names and when that didn't find them, I opened every > other folder that I could find on that drive and manually searched for them, > but again found nothing. Next I opened the trash, thinking that maybe I had > accidentally hit some keystroke combination, like Cmd-Delete, that would have > sent them to the trash. But nothing there either.
I'd think that your best bet after some mysterious behavior is to hit Cmd-Z (undo). The Finder has some limited Undo ability [1] which can be used to fix small tics to the fingers. [snip...] > So, a mystery for you Mac sleuths to solve: How and why did those folders > disappear from their original folder? How did they end up in the invisible > folder named ".trashes" and, most puzzling to me, why did they not show up > when I opened the trashcan folder? The ~/.Trash folder is the trashcan directory (though I think it is more than just a directory). The /.Trashes folder is something different. Which one did you look in? Bill
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