Where are those folders to be found? More mysteries everyday! Marta On Oct 4, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> > 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 > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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