Re: Documents: Unexplained Copies and a Name Change

In article C5A61086.20275%ghost_topper@xxxxxxxxxxx, George Kerby at
ghost_topper@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 1/28/09 2:39 PM:




On 1/28/09 9:41 AM, in article wY_fl.2823$S8.1302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"weedhopper" <WHopper@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Nick Naym" <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote in message
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In article tom_stiller-A1ED2E.07182627012009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Tom Stiller
at tom_stiller@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 1/27/09 7:18 AM:

In article <C5A41119.302D9%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>,
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

I discovered that a folder of documents (the folder is in my Documents
folder) included several documents that apparently were originally
located
elsewhere in my Documents folder. Moreover, one of the documents that
the
folder originally contained appeared to be missing. I then discovered
that
one of the ³several documents that apparently were originally located
elsewhere in my Documents folder² was, in fact, the ³original² document
that
appeared to be missing: It wasn¹t missing at all, it just had its name
changed to the same name as a document elsewhere in my Documents folder.
And
the other "originally located elsewhere" documents were actually copies.

Clear as mud, huh? OK...let me try to explain it this way:

Folder X originally contained 10 documents: Doc 1, Doc 2, Doc 3, ....,
Doc
10. Suddenly I noticed that it now contains 12 documents: Doc 1, DOC A,
Doc
3, ...., Doc 10, DOC 11, DOC 12, where DOC 11 and DOC are copies of
documents elsewhere in my Documents folder; and DOC A is actually Doc 2,
but
whose name had been changed to the name of DOC A, also a document
located
elsewhere in my Documents folder.

I was able to trace the weird situation back several months by examining
the
contents of my Time Machine backup drive. The date(s) of the
occurrence(s)
doesn¹t seem to coincide with anything in particular -- though, given
the
way TM ³consolidates² backups after a month, it¹s really difficult to
tell.

Has anyone seen this kind of problem before?

No kernel panic or hard shutdowns (e.g. power failure)?

I've had 3 kernel panics since buying the iMac last spring: the first less
than 2 weeks after getting the machine; the second, at the beginning of
September; the last, in early December. AFAICT, the appearance of "copies"
of documents occurred between September (which, BTW, was the month I
originally created the folder and its contents) and November; the
"renaming"
of the document I first thought was missing occurred between the end of
November and early December.

I have had some oddball situations (Mac hanging when attempting to log
off)
that required a "hard" shutdown (i.e., pressing the power key) on a number
of occasions (part of the rash of performance problems I had/have).


I have not a problem like that but if I had, I would immediately run
DiskWarrior to build a new, clean disk directory.


I received MacTools Pro and DiskWarrior for OS X as gifts last month
(replacing my OS 9 versions), and have run them a bunch of times (as well
as
Disk Utility). Nothing has shown up except the "usual" minor nits. The
disk
directory (according to DW) has less than 1% of its contents out of order.

Tu madre.


Su madre está a la derecha aquí conmigo.

Ella dice: ³mmmffffttt - glugg!²


¿Mi madre? _Tu_ madre ... y tu hermana, y tu esposa, y tu hija -- teniendo
cada uno su vez, y cada uno diciendo "yum, yum"!
--
iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) ? OS X (10.5.4)

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