Steve Herrick wrote: > While I was doing some repairs to my Ubuntu machine, I decided to try > out Scribus on the Mac. It's pretty good, with a few glitches here and > there. However, then my Mac also started having trouble - hanging and > whatnot. I don't blame that on Scribus. However, after one > particularly traumatic restart, I discovered that my System > Preferences were largely reset, as were my preferences in Firefox and > several other apps. Meanwhile, my work in Scribus was completely gone > - both the original file and the .bak file were turned to gibberish, > as if they were binary files. I've looked them over in vim and several > other text editors, and there's nothing even remotely recognizable. > I've given up hope of recovering them, but can anyone at least explain > what happened? > > Steve > -- > All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation > ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish > it. > - Alexis de Tocqueville > Two possibilities come to mind: 1) hard disk failure, 2) RAM errors.
Frank
