This problem of disappearing files is still occurring. Sometimes they reappear after some number of reboots and sometimes not.
I had been running the Ubuntu 14.04 final beta but last week upgraded everything to the released packages. Everything has seemed fine until today. For the past 3 days I had been working in a VirtualBox Ubuntu 14.04 VM on my Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop pc. This morning after rebooting the VirtualBox VM & its associated files were not on my system (last night they were). Again, booted GPARTED off CD and ran file system check on my SDA1... no errors found. Booted that drive and ran the DISKS program... ran the extensive version of the SMART disk tests... Disk is reported OK and no errors. I am hoping someone can tell me how I can even troubleshoot something like this. I am cloning the drive to a 2nd HD ... just in case there is any possibility it is the HD itself... but I don't think so or it would seem to me that some error would be detected by either SMART tests of FSCK...??? I think this may be something with the EXT4 file system & ubuntu itself? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks brian On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:35 PM, brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok.. today I had VirtualBox disappear from my system. Booted up and 3 of > the Virtualbox files were missing: > > virtualbox > virtualbox-qt > virtualbox-dkms > > I am absolutely certain I did not delete those myself. Other components > of virtualbox still showed as installed (guest additions etc). > > Brian > > > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Ok... this is getting weird. >> >> I just sent that last email. >> >> The trying to recreate... >> >> I copied 1 directory of 30 files from a USB3 drive to my 14.04 HD to my >> ~/Desktop directory. >> Confirmed both the directory I copied and the files in it were there. >> >> Checked the ~/Desktop/family directory where I had originally put the >> Word .docx and .odp files and that directory was still "empty". >> >> I rebooted. >> >> then .. checked to see that the "new" directory of files I had copied to >> my HD... it was. >> >> I checked the ~/Desktop/family folder again... now instead of it being >> empty... all of the original .docx and .odp files are back... and time >> stamped yesterday ..??? >> >> I again ran fsck and again it reports no errors. >> >> I understand I am still using Beta code so ... just delete the Bug >> 1306237. You can delete the bug I filed as I am not sure I know how to >> figure out what is going on with my file system. >> Hopefully whatever is going on goes away/disappears with future updates >> to 14.04 as I know alot is going on prior the 17th. >> >> Thanks >> >> Brian >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:22 PM, brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> The .mpg movie was just downloaded to my ~/Downloads directory >>> >>> The 15 Word .docx files were copied from a USB drive I use to transfer >>> from my business Win7 laptop via a USB3 cable to my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. >>> For those files I created a new directory in my ~/Desktop >>> and copied the files there. Then edited each of them with >>> libre-writer, saved each to that same directory as a .ODT file then printed >>> each file. >>> >>> In both cases, I did a normal shutdown of my Ubuntu and the next day >>> powered the system up and found the files gone. >>> >>> The first time with the .mpg file I blew it off as I could always get >>> the movie again and figured I must have somehow deleted it. >>> >>> However, the 2nd time those Word Docs were for my youngest Son's college >>> admissions documents we need to send to the 8 Universities that accepted >>> him.... I know I would not have deleted those, especially after all the >>> edits I'd done. But the next day after the system booted I couldn't >>> find them. The directory was there but neither the original 15 .docx >>> files nor 15 modified .ODT files were there ... the directory was empty. >>> >>> That's when I rebooted to a live CD and did the fsck... but that showed >>> no disk errors or lost data. >>> >>> Sorry I can't be more specific or point to anything in particular. The >>> best I can do is try to recreate it. >>> >>> I only filed the bug because if this is "a bug" and other's were seeing >>> something like this they may be like me and just be thinking they were >>> imagining things. But if someone else is seeing this then it was a way >>> to know it was just yourself. >>> >>> I am going to do both steps again and then tonite shutdown and boot >>> tomorrow and and see if anything goes missing. However, I have also been >>> trying to keep up with the Beta code drops by doing a >>> apt-get update, apt-get upgrade each day... so unless it happens again >>> it could be a problem come & gone. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> >>>> What folder did you put the files in? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug >>>> report. >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306237 >>>> >>>> Title: >>>> Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing >>>> >>>> To manage notifications about this bug go to: >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1306237/+subscriptions >>>> >>> >>> >> > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306237 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1306237/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
