Re: I lost a folder

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to give the details, although i think i have no chance of recovering it:
I had done a month's work in a foldercalled thesis on my desktop. it had six documents in them - two were doc.x - others older. i also had a backup for over a month ago on my memory stick, which was a folder called thesis with one item - a doc. i tried to move the icon from the desktop onto my memory stick and it told me it was too full. i then deleted some of the things on the memory stick and it said did i want to copy or replace. i said replace and the dekstop 'thesis' was changed to the folder with one item. was frustrated and deleted what was on the memory stick but kept the old folder called thesis on my desktop. i tried the memory stick on an ibm - nothing hidden. i checked the trash on the mac - not there. i spotlighted the name of the folder and words in titles of the docs, not there.... thanks

Exactly *how* did you attempt to do the backup?

If you simply dragged, the default is to Copy and if the content on the
stick had the same name you would have been prompted to replace it. "Cancel"
would have resulted in 'no harm - no foul' & if you confirmed the *new*
stuff being copied would have overwritten the older version. In fact, that
should be what happened even if you Command+Dragged or Cut & Pasted.

I'm not trying to badger you, but it's hard to suggest a remedy when you
don't know what the illness really is - and may not (hopefully) be real:-)
--
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
> Processor: intel
>
> I stupidly tried to backup a folder from my desktop to my memory stick.
> The old backup was a fraction of the size and three weeks old, so there
> was a huge amount of work in there for my thesis. Suffice to say instead
> of replacing the old with the new, i replaced the new with the old! I
> cannot find my newer information anywhere. Is it hidden? Or has it gone
> forever. Very sad as I have lost about eighty pages of research....



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