Re: "Recovered Files" Always in Trash

Hi Beth, Phillip, and John,

I just wanted to give an update on my progress with my "Recovered Files
Always in the Trash" problem. Basically, I've gone through all of the steps
suggested so far in this thread, to no avail. I:

-Uninstalled all versions of Office (on the second pass it worked properly,
deleting the applications as well as the prefs).
-Reinstalled Office from the CD using the installer.
-Performed the 11.3 update.
-Used Disk Utility to repair permissions. I had a glimmer of hope here,
because DU found a repair at the the level of /Library/.

But no dice. I just wrote a letter on Word, and after a restart the
"Recovered Files" are back in the trash.

So this leaves me/us with a couple of options:

-(1) figure out how to repair the permissions on an invisible folder
(Temporary Items). I made some initial forays into investigating this by
using an app that showed all invisible items, but I couldn't change the
permissions in the Get Info window for anything that looked like it might be
the responsible folder.
-(2) screwing around at the root user level. This might include seeing if I
can change the permissions at this level, or even performing an install of
Office from here. I must admit that this idea strikes fear into my heart,
if only because I'm new to this file system and worry that I might make
things even worse. But then again, most of my major breakthroughs on the
Mac have come from taking such risks.

Anyway, thanks for all of your help. I'm still totally open to new
suggestions while I keep waiting for that Unix Jedi to come along. So keep
the thread going if you have any new suggestions; god knows I'll be reading
it!

Best, Mark


On 11/15/06 1:33 PM, in article C180C7B9.3BA2F%bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Beth Rosengard" <bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Mark,

I've only half followed this thread (catching up with three days of posts!)
so I'm not sure this will help but ...

The common way to change permissions on a file (or folder) is to click once
to select it and then do a Get Info (Cmd>i). Only I'm not sure that's the
type of "permissions" that were meant here. Someone else will have to
comment on this.

Also, while I doubt it will help, use Apple's Disk Utility and run Repair
Disk Permissions. Worth a try.

.

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