folder turned into a file

[Ciraxl]

Hello,
this is my first post here, I hope you can help me.

I've been asked to upgrade the disk of a macbook pro (MacOsX 10.5.2), so I cloned it with superduper and I've switched the old hard disk with he new one.

After I've started the system everything but Entourage worked, so I checked the disk, and I found that Documents folder has disappeared, and I found an empty plain text file instead of it. Documents stack in the dock now shows a curious question point icon, and there's no trace of any of the file and folder that were inside of Documents.

I've put the original disk in the MacBook Pro, but I found that it was identical to his clone.

I've also tried to use Nucleus Kernel and Boomerang Data Recovery to find all the lost stuff, but they found nothing.

I don't know what to do, I have to recover all the data, mails and the other stuff which was inside, but I don't know if it is possible and how could this be done.

In Windows I had to recover data from deleted folders, even from corrupted partitions, and I succeded in finding the files I was looking for, sometimes I had to rename the files I found, but I succeded in recovering client's data nearly everytime.

Now I'm very confused, as I've always thought this kind of accidents could not happen in a Mac enviroment.

What can I do? Is there any kind of data recovery service able to restore Documents directory from its file status?

Davide, from Italy

Thank you for reading, thank you for your help

[sourcehound]

Oooh, you might have been bitten by the well-know Mac OS X bug where you can clobber a folder with a file of the same name. However, if you're lucky, you might have accidentally added an extension onto the file that makes the Finder think it's a bundle or some other type of resource. "Get info" on the file, and uncheck "hide extension." if there's one there, try removing it and see if it turns back into a folder.

[Ciraxl]

Thank you, I'll try it today.

What can I do if there is no extension?

Regards

Davide

[Ciraxl]

Checked, there's no extension.

In "Get Info" I found class: text only, haw can I revert it into a class: Folder?

Thank you!