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dixie - Jul 8, 2005 - 9:29 am

I was backing up my accounting program last night and was burning a CD when the power went out for a few seconds. I wasn't sure if it finished burning so I then attempted to back it up again on another CD. I accidently, while dragging the folder to the CD, pressed the apple key (I'm using an imac). While it was burning I got an error that the CD was corrupted. So I eject it and started over with another CD. When I went to the hard drive to drag the folder, the folder was gone. I tried a search in the finder and nothing came up. - The whole program disappeared and we can't find it. Fortunately that first backup was successful. But where is the original folder??

And what is the function of the apple key in conjunction with dragging files. Can't find anything in any documentation we have.

Thanks for any help.

dixie

earthsaver - Jul 8, 2005 - 12:01 pm

Command+drag performs a move operation (copy to new location; delete original).

- Ben

dixie - Jul 8, 2005 - 1:34 pm

Thank you.
Is there any way to retrieve the deleted folder? It didn't warn me that it was being deleted.

earthsaver - Jul 8, 2005 - 1:40 pm

You just said the first backup was successful. Can't you take it off the first CD?

Mac OS X overwrites deleted files without regard for unused space elsewhere on the disk. (Unlike previous systems which only wrote to unused space before overwriting.) You can try one of several utilities to recover your files but without guarantee of recovery if you have been using the computer since the backup attempt last night.

- Ben

dixie - Jul 8, 2005 - 1:54 pm

Well, I wasn't sure at first if the first backup was successful because the power went out when I was burning the CD. However, the software Support tech Just got back to me a few minutes ago and by checking a few things, it looks like it's okay and I have copied it to the hard drive. I was afraid if it hadn't finished burning, data could be missing or corrupted without it being obvious when running the program

Thanks again for a quick and informative response. I really appreciate it.
Dixie