[Ti] Major loss

[Trevor J. Hutley]

At 16:05 +0200 22-3-2003, Ray M wrote:
>I was working with drive 10 yesterday night... Was optimizing the disk when
>drive 10 freezed.
>This morning the partition wouldn't mount.
>I tried drive 10 to fix it but wasn't able to do so. Then tried disk utility
>also wasn't able to do so, finally I tried diskwarrior, who potentially
>fixed it, but after remounting the drive I noticed that the directory are on
>the disk but all the files have been deleted!.... How can I recover all he
>damage??
>
>These files are really important and I really want them back!
>
>Any solution??? Is there something that can be done???

Ray - Disk Warrior (I only have the version that works in OS9) is the 
only utility that I know that can fix this kind of problem.  After 
rebuilding the directory with it, I rebuild the desktop, restart, and 
then it should be OK.  But it sounds like you have something more 
profound happening.

 From the way you wrote your note, it really does concern me that you 
may not have a backup of your files.  This is something that I wrote 
about endlessly on this list.  Everyone who has files that "are 
really important" MUST have a back up.  I back my entire Ti-500 up 
(incremental) every night using Retrospect remote to an external USB 
hard disk.

Then in the worst case (like yours seems to be) you have only lost 
one day's work.

If you do not have a backup system, buy it before the sun goes down.......

regards,  Trevor