[X-Unix] Urgent question about accidentally deleted files

[Aaron]

>From: "Eric F Crist" <ecrist at secure-computing.net>
>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:23:50 +0000
>
>You can ignore them all. They will be recreated as needed.

After my initial panic wore off, I decided to copy .login and .tcshrc from my old Tiger home directory (on another disk), since I didn't want to have to re-create all my aliases, etc. Also, I figured that anything in the Tiger home directory that wouldn't clobber anything in my Leopard home directory was safe to copy, although probably useless.

 - Aaron

P.S. It's not only hard to teach an old dog NEW tricks. This old dog is struggling to relearn OLD tricks that he gradually forgot after being seduced about 20 years ago by the Macintosh GUI.

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>Eric F Crist
>Secure Computing Networks 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aaron <aaron at macuser.fastmail.fm>
>
>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:51:21
>To: <x-unix at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [X-Unix] Urgent question about accidentally deleted files
>
>
>In the course of testing a shell script, I accidentally deleted all of the following files from my home directory:
>
>..CFUserTextEncoding
>.DS_Store
>.Xauthority
>.bash_history
>.cshrc
>.eno
>.fonts.cache-1
>.gdb_history
>.gtk-bookmarks
>.lesshst
>.login
>.prismPrefs
>.profile
>.rnd
>.tcshrc
>.viminfo
>
>1) Which of these files can I totally ignore without losing anything? (I don't use bash or gdb. I do use tcsh. But if I need to run a bash script, will there be any problems.)
>
>2) Which ones can be replaced using earlier versions? I'm presuming that .tcshrc and .login can, even if the earlier versions are from my Tiger startup. (I'm using Leopard now.)
>
>3) Any other considerations? (Don't tell me about backing up. I'm getting set up to use time machine, but i don't even know if that would let me only recover specific files without replacing other new files.)
>
> - TIA
> - Aaron