Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
Let's regress a bit. Based on your responses, we know you are an experienced user. So, lets try to think of ways that files can be deleted or hidden. Is it possible that something might have changed the partition table, so now you are mounting the wrong partitions. I've done that to myself a

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 04:19:31 +0200 (CEST) Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many people here for which English is not the first language (idioma nativo), me included and we are used to fuzzy English, so 99% of people here are very tolerant with _that_ ;-) And 100% should be.

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-03 Thread Hudibras
El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 16:17 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: Let's regress a bit. Based on your responses, we know you are an experienced user. So, lets try to think of ways that files can be deleted or hidden. Thank you. I said before I was not going to follow the thread, because of some

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-02 Thread jdd
Hudibras wrote: Yes. Though SuSE and any Linux always let me not to be so distressed to backup all (I think this is not good expressed, sorry), I think it would be a good thing to have into account. But, I swear, I never needed any backup: SuSE NEVER has failed to me. you are too confident.

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-02 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Anders Johansson wrote: Could you send us some system info please? Like which drives you have, partitions, mount points, and where you expected the data to be? The missing bookmarks almost makes me suspect that you have more than one linux installation in this system,

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-02 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
On Sunday 01 April 2007 11:32:31 pm Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 16:06 -0400, Patrick Shanahan escribió: * Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-01-07 14:59]: [...] Yes! Several gigs of jpg, video files, and all Tellico databases (twenty or thirty megas of my CD's), and of

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-02 Thread Juergen Weigert
On Apr 01, 07 20:39:30 +0200, Hudibras wrote: Well, if problem persist, I will remove SuSE for ever, and I'll come back to BSD again. I have said before, and it's really a pity, but I think this is unbearable. Do you have a second machine where you could try an identical installation and

[opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
Hi, Pleased to be here. I'm a SuSE Linux user since 1996-97, even a SuSE reseller from 1998 to 2001, and I've never found a problem like this, never, even in cases when I have done many bad things with it: Konqueror bookmarks disapeears from time to time; a html file created by myself with

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:20:35 +0200 Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a SuSE Linux user since 1996-97, even a SuSE reseller from 1998 to 2001, and I've never found a problem like this, never, even in cases when I have done many bad things with it: Konqueror bookmarks disapeears from

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 08:53 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:20:35 +0200 Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a SuSE Linux user since 1996-97, even a SuSE reseller from 1998 to 2001, and I've never found a problem like this, never, even in cases when I have done

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Crouse
Hard drive failing perhaps Any time I've experienced really weird issues it's been related to a hard drive failing. On 4/1/07, Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 08:53 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:20:35 +0200 Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread jdd
Hudibras wrote: Thanks in advance, and I hope my poor English would be explicit enough to understand this embarrasing thing. No problem with your language. mine is not better :-) Just a comment, I have been using SuSE for quite a while, and I have never experienced a loss of data that I

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 12:39 -0500, Dave Crouse escribió: Hard drive failing perhaps Any time I've experienced really weird issues it's been related to a hard drive failing. Many many thanks for your answer. No, this was my first thought and suspicion. And the reason why it's not due

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 19:45 +0200, jdd escribió: Hudibras wrote: Thanks in advance, and I hope my poor English would be explicit enough to understand this embarrasing thing. No problem with your language. mine is not better :-) Ha, ha, ha. Thanks for your answer. Just a

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-01-07 14:59]: [...] Yes! Several gigs of jpg, video files, and all Tellico databases (twenty or thirty megas of my CD's), and of course links in my konqueror bookmarks. is this serious? I think I can have got whatever I want in my computer, then why it

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread peter nikolic
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 08:53 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:20:35 +0200 Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alejandro. snipped/ Hi . i once had a similar thing and traced it back to a LimeWire setup the files that

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 16:06 -0400, Patrick Shanahan escribió: * Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-01-07 14:59]: [...] Yes! Several gigs of jpg, video files, and all Tellico databases (twenty or thirty megas of my CD's), and of course links in my konqueror bookmarks. is this serious? I

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 21:19 +0100, peter nikolic escribió: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 08:53 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:20:35 +0200 Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alejandro. snipped/ Hi . Hi. i once had a

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread jdd
Hudibras wrote: No, no, don't take care of this. I have two daughters, and the have their own computer. They know mine is untouchable. I already knew you were asking me for this. So that problem, discarded. given the nature of the files desapearing, I wonder. Don't ever think openSUSE is

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread jdd
Hudibras wrote: Tellico databases of music. Does it not sound to any backdoor or similar I'm very sorry to point it out, but ... it's probably so. may be your computer was, time ago hit by a rootkit and now somebody can access it from external without you knowing nothing about it.

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Tom Patton
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 22:44 +0200, Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 21:19 +0100, peter nikolic escribió: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 08:53 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:20:35 +0200 Hudibras [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 22:51 +0200, jdd escribió: Hudibras wrote: Tellico databases of music. Does it not sound to any backdoor or similar I'm very sorry to point it out, but ... it's probably so. may be your computer was, time ago hit by a rootkit and now somebody can access it

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 15:35 -0600, Tom Patton escribió: On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 22:44 +0200, Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 21:19 +0100, peter nikolic escribió: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 08:53 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: On Sun,

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-04-01 at 22:44 +0200, Hudibras wrote: ... Thank you, indeed. But this is not the case. Files are mp3, jpg, avi, mpg, wmv, html, only certain links in my konqueror bookmarks, and all my Tellico databases of music. Does it not

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: So isn't there anybody here experienced a lost of files in a mysterious way? Is there ghosts in SuSE now? If these mailing lists were full of such complaints you would have heard about it long before now, and SuSE would have a very bad name. Sadly,

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 16:46 -0800, John Andersen escribió: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: So isn't there anybody here experienced a lost of files in a mysterious way? Is there ghosts in SuSE now? If these mailing lists were full of such complaints you would have heard about

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 01 April 2007 19:46, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: So isn't there anybody here experienced a lost of files in a mysterious way? Is there ghosts in SuSE now? If these mailing lists were full of such complaints you would have heard about it long

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El lun, 02-04-2007 a las 02:20 +0200, Carlos E. R. escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-04-01 at 22:44 +0200, Hudibras wrote: ... Thank you, indeed. But this is not the case. Files are mp3, jpg, avi, mpg, wmv, html, only certain links in my

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 01 April 2007 11:20, Hudibras wrote: Hi, Pleased to be here. I'm a SuSE Linux user since 1996-97, even a SuSE reseller from 1998 to 2001, and I've never found a problem like this, never, even in cases when I have done many bad things with it: Konqueror bookmarks disapeears from

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 20:06 -0500, Rajko M. escribió: On Sunday 01 April 2007 19:46, John Andersen wrote: Only this one! On Sunday 01 April 2007, Hudibras wrote: So isn't there anybody here experienced a lost of files in a mysterious way? Is there ghosts in SuSE now? If these

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 02 April 2007 01:23, Hudibras wrote: Tellico files, of course they were. The directory was /home/user/Documents/Tellico/Databases, the usual place, I think. But all jpg and videos were in another drive, separated in many directories. And my html file with links to several sites,

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Hudibras
El lun, 02-04-2007 a las 03:23 +0200, Anders Johansson escribió: On Sunday 01 April 2007 11:20, Hudibras wrote: Hi, Pleased to be here. I'm a SuSE Linux user since 1996-97, even a SuSE reseller from 1998 to 2001, and I've never found a problem like this, never, even in cases when I

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-01 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 01 April 2007 20:31, Hudibras wrote: El dom, 01-04-2007 a las 20:06 -0500, Rajko M. escribió: ... I swear. I repeat, I swear on anything you want that I haven't begun this thread because today (well, yesterday in Spain) is April's Fool. In Spain that special and joking day is 28th