Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All true as you say ;-) I should replace the HD I suppose, but having gone digital for colour now, I may have to upgrade to a bigger faster "beast" anyway. Hmm: I'm spending too much money on things I don't really want to spend it on, computers hard discs for back up software water tanks water pumps even water!!! this drought is a bore: my water is filtered, but I may have to use rainwater to get good b/w work ;-) Cheers > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >