Lost MUD after reboot

[richard]

Rebooted after Mac G4 started running very slowly and erratically, but
when I started Entourage it defaulted to the 'just installed' state. I
found that all the items - folders and files in my user>documents
folder had disappeared - which of course includes all my MUD folders
and files. Had a back-up from a couple of days ago so not much lost
apart from a few emails in the Entourage database, but judging by the
total available space on my hard drive the items are still there on
disk but not available to the Mac layer. Is there some clever terminal
command to recover lost folders from the Unix layer? A similar thing
happened to me once before where I 'lost' my entire User area and had
to reformat and reinstall from scratch to clear the disk of the
'hidden' folders. Any clues please....

 

[matt neuburg]

Rebooted after Mac G4 started running very slowly and erratically, but
when I started Entourage it defaulted to the 'just installed' state. I
found that all the items - folders and files in my user>documents
folder had disappeared

Then this is not an Entourage question at all; I suggest you ask on
comp.sys.mac.system. I'd look in the trash, check to see that you have
not logged in as a different user by mistake, run DiskWarrior and Disk
Utility (fsck), and in general worry about the state of the disk. You
can indeed do a full search of the disk from the Terminal; for example,
you could say this:

sudo find -E / -iname "*microsoft*"

You'll get a lot of results and it will take a long time, but if you've
got another Microsoft User Data folder somewhere, this will find it -
unless your disk is simply hosed. m.