[RLUG] Disappearing data

[Brian Morris]

Dennis,

Are you sure you're not just using a different home directory?  I know
that sounds like a stupid thing but I've seen it before.

Brian

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:46 -0800, Dennis Bagley wrote:

> I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately several times)
> yesterday but got 
> -0- feedback from anyone.  I'm still looking for answers because I do
> NOT want to accidentally
> repeat the problem.
> 
> So anyone have answers besides "42"?
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Dennis
> 
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> 
> Came into my office this morning to discover data missing from my PC.
> 
> I am running Ubuntu 5.04
> 
> On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay.  I have a dual
> drive system
> and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu (5.10) on the second
> drive - it seemed to install just fine
> and I was also able to reboot into the older version.  I must admit
> that I did not run any programs
> other than email and the browser before leaving my office for the
> weekend.
> 
> HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare - my virtual
> machine files were GONE.  The directory
> where the files should have been was there but the files were not.
> 
> Also missing:
>    all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox)
>    all the pop3 mail on my system
>    all of the contacts I had in Evolution
>    all the "sent" mail
>    all special email folders I had created that contained data.
> 
> 
> All my other primary files appear to be intact.  Ideas? Have I been
> hacked?  Did the the install
> screw something up?  If so, how?
> 
> (Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work data is stored on
> the server.  But I did not have a backup of 
> the email and contact info and that kinda torques me.)
> 
> Thanks
> 
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> Dennis
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