My Aunt has found a nasty little problem with OS10.5 years ago she purchased a eMac which is loaded with OS10.5 and has been browsing and using iPhoto without issue ever since. I got a call for help via last week from my father who explained that for the past year she's been writing her life story and had apparently 'lost' the file. Auntie is more comfortable with a washing machine than a computer which is perhaps why she has got into this pickle.
He's what I have worked out has happened; she was accessing the Appleworks file 'My story.cwk' via an alias. I have tracked the alias back and it was accessing the master file here; /Users/setup/.Trash/My story.cwk I was staggered. How could she have been editing this file whilst it was in the trash? To test this I took one of her other documents for which I could see an alias and placed the master doc in her waste bin and sure enough it let me carry on editing. As I understand it my Aunt got to a point in November with her story that upset her, so took a break and only now felt up to carrying on. My guess is that the trash was emptied at some point between then and now and so the file was flushed and the alias stopped working. Of course with the master file in the trash Time Machine is of no help. Just in case the deleted file might still intact I brought her eMac home and started it in Firewire Target mode and have run a file recovery application 'Nice to Recover Data for Mac' which didn't find anything. I am now scanning again with Remo Recovery (the free version just to see if it can find anything before I shell out for a serial number). Aside from the warning to take care if you are running OSX 10.5 I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do? The word 'Kilwinning' was in the file so is there any way I can use that to search? Regards -- Steve Vyse Tel 07785 275378 Mobile 07785 275 378 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
