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Apple Computing Products:
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Important files inaccessible after clean install of OS despite backup on external HDD
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1341524" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>That's not a folder. See the arrow icon in the corner? It's an <a href="http://kb.iu.edu/data/achy.html" target="_blank">alias</a> pointing to wherever the Desktop folder was when that alias was first made. Presumably it's not working because the Desktop folder that it is pointing to has moved from where it was before, or it no longer exists. How exactly did you back up your data? Be very specific in the steps and keyboard shortcuts that you used.</p><p></p><p>You can also grab a nifty utility named EasyFind (available for free on the Mac App Store). Point it to your backups and plug in the name of one of your files, or just search again for Desktop. If anything can find your files, it can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1341524, member: 38864"] That's not a folder. See the arrow icon in the corner? It's an [URL="http://kb.iu.edu/data/achy.html"]alias[/URL] pointing to wherever the Desktop folder was when that alias was first made. Presumably it's not working because the Desktop folder that it is pointing to has moved from where it was before, or it no longer exists. How exactly did you back up your data? Be very specific in the steps and keyboard shortcuts that you used. You can also grab a nifty utility named EasyFind (available for free on the Mac App Store). Point it to your backups and plug in the name of one of your files, or just search again for Desktop. If anything can find your files, it can. [/QUOTE]
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