Thank you chris for this invaluable information. I have suspected -A- problem with the dard disk for a long time because of the number of problems I was having which have shown up in different ways.
I have suspected that part of the problem was the size of my CE and the problems I have had in backing up on CD's effectively. This latter has prevented me from doing that more often. There are some large 'list' files (2000 or more in some folders) which I don't bckup and dump till the end of the year. My 'Sent' file has 14,500 files in it dating from 1997. In 2004 I began sending out group messages intermittently throughout the year, broken down alphabetically, and this may have added to the problem. The Rescued Files were placed on the desktop not in the Trash. There were over 2000 of them/ When i first started to go through this folder to see if I COULD throw them away I found many were labelled 'alias' so felt I could dump them. After 162 thrown in the trash I recognized many were .html files and I couldn't even recognize the subject (in other words they did not seem to be anything I downloaded from the Internet or had been sent me by friends). In the end I decided to dump all those marked 'alias'. Having managed to backup the MailDatabase and Index I also dumped my List Emails from 2006 (NOT CE!). Finally that seemed to do the trick on the 3rd day of start-up (yesterday). However one folder I kept handy in the bottom left corner of my screen with phone contacts planted itself somewhere else in my computer! I found it through Spotlight, made a new desktop folder, selected the data and transferred it back. I find it very difficult to find where documents are located in this System X. I also noticed there were two 'Enclosed.html' files on my desktop that were spam which I must have deleted in CE without opening. There were another two that were from an academic source that I may also have dumped without opening but which appeared as a .gif and a .pdf file. But why would CE not delete them and 'rescue' them to the desktop?? Presuming of course it is the 'Rescue' factor that is a problem? Incidentally I have been shutting down properly - I always do, but sometimes I don't wait for the screen to go black before I shut the lid of the laptop - does that matter? I am going to run Disk Utility and First Aid now as you suggest. Bea >On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Bea Hopkinson wrote: > >> It sounds like that but it was not defined as a DS_Store file >> but >> was rather >> just dumped in a file I titled Rescued Files 1/26/07 containing 2595 >> files, many >> of them html files. These show up in the 'Finder' mode. > >The OS 7 to 9 generates a Rescued Files folder like you describe, but >places it in the Trash. It does this if you incorrectly shut down >(ie: don't use the Shut Down or Restart feature of the OS), and >during the subsequent disk scan at startup it finds orphaned files. > >I've not seen OS X do this, but maybe it does as well and put that >folder on your desktop. > >If you are seeing this happen over and over, when you have not been >incorrectly turning off or rebooting your computer, it would indicate >to me a problem with your hard drive. I would ASAP run Disk Utility >and run First Aid and see if it reports any disk problems. I'd also >repair permissions while there for good measure (but ONLY if it says >there are no disk problems). > >If you reply to this email, be sure to choose Reply All to keep the >thread on the list so you don't miss out from the expertise of others. > >-chris ><www.mythtech.net> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
