<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Jens Selvig wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">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.</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Curious, what is it that makes you think the files are still there? Did he or you not observe a huge increase in the amount of free space? Or..some other clue?</div><div><br></div><div>hope you find them all…have you or he tried to search for some file type or keyword he knows is in there?</div><div>Maybe if that method reveals one file, it'll show where all the others are too…</div><div><br></div><div>cat</div></body></html>