Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Mac query
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Thu Nov 9 22:30:39 2006
References: <7.0.1.0.0.20061106092450.01a32d80@telus.net> <BA8231D0-CD1B-4A81-86DC-08EAE6DA55CA@ncable.net.au> <8D76BC3A-35AD-4A33-A452-AF632E6457B6@mindspring.com> <1225.203.193.195.248.1163038958.squirrel@webmail.ncable.net.au> <CF4AD85511CE2964455DD9F5@hindolveston.reid.org> <2140.203.193.195.248.1163042961.squirrel@webmail.ncable.net.au> <CE4F8D5865B4BC7D4F786D23@hindolveston.reid.org> <D55BFFB0-DC6B-469F-B0CB-9D159CB2CEA8@ncable.net.au> <4552F71A.8020907@dlridings.se> <4CBDD16A-6698-4655-9726-63B126B07F25@ncable.net.au> <455425D8.8020409@dlridings.se>

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
>
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