Hope you never do this one....
My usual routine with my Canon digital camera is to see something I want
to show (email) somebody, take a picture, upload to OSX using an app
called Canon Image Browser, which I like, move the pic to my desktop,
where I can see it, then delete it off the camera. Saturday night, I
deleted my desktop instead.
WHOOOOPS!
Not really realizing what had happened, I decided that maybe a restart
would cure evrything. Nope. It turned out the desktop was now a
folder, in the trash. If there were multiple users on this machine, I
guess I would have known that the desktop was always a folder, and known
what to do, but I didn't and it got worse from there....because, well, I
could not move the desktop folder out of the trash. In retrospect
perhaps I could have moved it out of the trash, but only into the right
spot, mainly my user folder, or AT LEAST I could have pulled items out
of the desktop folder in the trash and put them somewhere, but, idiot
that I am, I figured emptying the trash would probably solve everything.
Nope....all gone. Several hours with Norton Utilities Unerase didn't
help at all. Found all kinds of crap I'd never seen before, but nothing
I know I had in that "Untitled Folder" that I keep on the desktop to
store my latest brainstorm projects. Oh, well. Sorry for the long
story, I really don't know many Apple guys.
Happy New Year!
Aloha,
GW

In article <09qCd.59473$gd.36319@twister.socal.rr.com>, Geoff Welsh
<geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> WHOOOOPS!

Welcome to the club. I am a charter member of that club whose members
have accidentely deleted valuable stuff.

Now I am wise to myself, and never delete stuff at all.

Only problem is that I am running out of disk space ;-)

Mark-

In article <09qCd.59473$gd.36319@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> Hope you never do this one....
> My usual routine with my Canon digital camera is to see something I want
> to show (email) somebody, take a picture, upload to OSX using an app
> called Canon Image Browser, which I like, move the pic to my desktop,
> where I can see it, then delete it off the camera. Saturday night, I
> deleted my desktop instead.
> WHOOOOPS!
> Not really realizing what had happened, I decided that maybe a restart
> would cure evrything. Nope. It turned out the desktop was now a
> folder, in the trash. If there were multiple users on this machine, I
> guess I would have known that the desktop was always a folder, and known
> what to do, but I didn't and it got worse from there....because, well, I
> could not move the desktop folder out of the trash. In retrospect
> perhaps I could have moved it out of the trash, but only into the right
> spot, mainly my user folder, or AT LEAST I could have pulled items out
> of the desktop folder in the trash and put them somewhere, but, idiot
> that I am, I figured emptying the trash would probably solve everything.
> Nope....all gone. Several hours with Norton Utilities Unerase didn't
> help at all. Found all kinds of crap I'd never seen before, but nothing
> I know I had in that "Untitled Folder" that I keep on the desktop to
> store my latest brainstorm projects. Oh, well. Sorry for the long
> story, I really don't know many Apple guys.

Back up your data regularly.

Good advice, of course. But with never having lost anything, before,
since I started using this machine in 1999, and that's including all the
files from OS8.6 that are STILL here, one can see how I never adopted
that habit.
No excuse I guess,
GW


Shawn Hearn wrote:

> In article <09qCd.59473$gd.36319@twister.socal.rr.com>,
> Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hope you never do this one....
>>My usual routine with my ....
>
> Back up your data regularly.

On 1/5/05 11:18 PM, in article 1_2Dd.61932$gd.38033@twister.socal.rr.com,
"Geoff Welsh" <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> Good advice, of course. But with never having lost anything, before,
> since I started using this machine in 1999, and that's including all the
> files from OS8.6 that are STILL here, one can see how I never adopted
> that habit.
> No excuse I guess,
> GW
>
>
> Shawn Hearn wrote:
>
>> In article <09qCd.59473$gd.36319@twister.socal.rr.com>,
>> Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hope you never do this one....
>>> My usual routine with my ....
>>
>> Back up your data regularly.

You can probably boot from your OS X disks that came with the machine and
drag the folder out. If not, then you should be able to reinstall the OS
without erasing the hard drive and just drag your files back to the right
place.

- Mike