[Leica] Mac query

[dlr at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)]

Alastair Firkin wrote:
> 
> On 09/11/2006, at 20:38, Daniel Ridings wrote:
> 
>> Try:
>>
>> cd /
>> find . -name "*ddress*" -print
>>
>> Might take a while (depends on how many and how large your disks are).
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> thanks to everyone who has put up suggestions and help with my wayward 
> Mac. Daniel's suggestion uncovered the AddressBook package which has 
> re-installed the programme for me, though I do not think we really have 
> any idea why it "poofed" in the first place. It may be time for a 
> complete rebuild of the hard disc.

That's no problem, now is it Alastair.

You just reformat, your disk and load your back-up. A cinch :-)

Somewhere in the root of the hard disk (the top of the filesystem) there 
is probably a directory "lost_found" (I forget exactly what it is 
called) where blocks that become orphans in the system end up (along 
with the files that lived in those blocks).

I've never been able to do anything sensible with them, even though I've 
sometimes found a "file" (a block with part of the file I'm looking for) 
in there.

I think I'd even replace the hard disk, not just doctor it.

Daniel