[RLUG] Disappearing data

[Dennis Bagley]

Actually not a stupid question but the answer is NO.  I only have one
entry under home.

I've done more digging since and all of my directories where I had info
like music, photos etc are empty.  The directories are there but no
data.

It's very very wierd.

Dennis
 



On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:13 -0800, Brian Morris wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > Dennis
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