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What Purged Files on My Wife's Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="noob_for_life" data-source="post: 1532574" data-attributes="member: 309169"><p>This is getting crazier. I did two things over the weekend:</p><p></p><p>1) I took an old computer and tried renaming the home directory. Two things about this:</p><p></p><p>a) I had to go through quite a dance to make this happen (create users and granting authority to the primary user's folder, that or using sudo in command line to rename). It was unlikely anyone would have done this accidentally.</p><p></p><p>b) The result wasn't quite what my wife experienced. Upon returning to the primary user's account, I had a default set of unused folders. But, the original hierarchy was still there in the Users directory, just under the new name. In my wife's case, she has lost many, but not all files. Her Documents folder was cleared. Her Desktop folder was largely, but strangely, cleared. But, her Movies and Pictures were fine. And her Library was selectively cleared (Mail untouched. Browser, Address Book and probably others reset).</p><p></p><p>Accidentally renaming the home directory was an interesting idea. But, it's looking unlikely to me now.</p><p></p><p>2) I got the computer back and ran Data Rescue 3 against it. A Quick Scan found none of the deleted files. I ran a Deep Scan and grabbed all of the few Excel files it could find (and it should have found many). None of them were the one file she and I were exchanging. So, I'm not even finding the deleted files. She had over 1/4 of the drive free before this. So, I can't imagine they were written over in this period.</p><p></p><p>She has an SSD drive. Do they deal with deleted files differently?</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p><p></p><p>Gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noob_for_life, post: 1532574, member: 309169"] This is getting crazier. I did two things over the weekend: 1) I took an old computer and tried renaming the home directory. Two things about this: a) I had to go through quite a dance to make this happen (create users and granting authority to the primary user's folder, that or using sudo in command line to rename). It was unlikely anyone would have done this accidentally. b) The result wasn't quite what my wife experienced. Upon returning to the primary user's account, I had a default set of unused folders. But, the original hierarchy was still there in the Users directory, just under the new name. In my wife's case, she has lost many, but not all files. Her Documents folder was cleared. Her Desktop folder was largely, but strangely, cleared. But, her Movies and Pictures were fine. And her Library was selectively cleared (Mail untouched. Browser, Address Book and probably others reset). Accidentally renaming the home directory was an interesting idea. But, it's looking unlikely to me now. 2) I got the computer back and ran Data Rescue 3 against it. A Quick Scan found none of the deleted files. I ran a Deep Scan and grabbed all of the few Excel files it could find (and it should have found many). None of them were the one file she and I were exchanging. So, I'm not even finding the deleted files. She had over 1/4 of the drive free before this. So, I can't imagine they were written over in this period. She has an SSD drive. Do they deal with deleted files differently? Thanks! Gary [/QUOTE]
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