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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: RonaldP on March 12, 2003, 10:27:00 AM

Title: Lost Items
Post by: RonaldP on March 12, 2003, 10:27:00 AM

Is there any way to retrieve items (like a document) that appear lost... I'm running OS 10.2.4

Title: Lost Items
Post by: atjurhs on March 12, 2003, 04:14:00 PM

What do you mean lost?

Have you tried searching for it via a Terminal?

At a Terminal prompt try typing:

find / -name filename

If you only know part of the name type:

find / -name filena*

The  says to treat the following character not as a litteral but as a speacial character.  The * is a wild card, so it will accept any string that starts with filena.  You can also dp the same thing at the start of the string.

fins / -name *ilename

You'll get  a lot of "Permssion denied"  returns at first (there's also a way to "prune" these but that's a bit more complicated).  Anyways, if the file is anywhere on that hard drive the find command will find it .

Title: Lost Items
Post by: Bill on March 13, 2003, 10:06:00 PM