[P1] lost files ...

[Jack Rodgers]

On Dec 7, 2003, at 9:16 PM, patdart wrote:

> No, I'm not new, just really dumb.

Most of us are too polite to point that out...   :)

> I've had a Mac since 1992.  Just have never had a problem like 
> this...and can't figure out how it happened...and I do the support for 
> the two Macs I know of in my small area...can you imagine that?

How did you make the movie? I just exported one clip from iMovie and it 
went from 73 Megs to 1 Meg (email format). This is a fully contained 
movie. If I open that in Quicktime and then do a Save As, then the 
option to create the pointer file shows up and this may cause problems.

Second, is the file that you are trying to open an Alias file? Maybe 
you created an alias and stored that somewhere and then deleted the 
original. Do a Command I on the file and see what it says.

Anyway, check the trash...and do a Find in the finder and see if you 
can find it by name. The missing copy MIGHT show up.

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Does the world record for slowness go to the SprintPCS.com site. The 
manage page downloads 202 objects and takes minutes. I gave up and 
thought about trying Verizon....