DiskWarrior!! Saved my butt once & I'm loyal forever. Rebuilds the directory ( aka FAT table on a -gag- PC) 99 bucks, but great to have on hand & for occasional maintenance. I can't recommend it highly enough. Just a fan, not an employee. :-) Sent from my iPhone4 On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Jens Selvig <lstnmt at bresnan.net> wrote: > I have a friend, in his mid eighties, who somehow has lost nearly all of his documents. He has a MBP G4 running 10.4.11. The hard drive has only 600 megs of free space so I am fairly certain the files still exist. I think most of the files were on his desktop. My imagination (perhaps hope) is that he somehow found a way to hid those files accidentally. I have not done much other than poke around in his user directory finding nothing. > > My thinking is to use Carbon Copy Cloner and then work on that with a bit more abandon. :) > > Any ideas about how I should proceed? > > Thanks, > > Jens > > Jens Selvig > ...Lost in Montana... > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u