No. All they said was to refer to a couple of the other articles they'd previously run on Terminal usage. I'm sure the warnings can be found there, but that's a pretty mild note of caution in my book.
As for the erasure of the temp file, I think it was interrupted by Energy Saver. The log I saw in Terminal upon returning to the machine suggested it had written over the data 30 times first, which obviously is plenty. > > While I love Terminal - use it all the time... I'm not sure why > MacLife would send you to Terminal, risking fateful typos etc, to do > what you can do safely from Disk Utility. Did the magazine at least > STRONGLY recommend that you run full backups first? > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
