kgood Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I just downloaded SP2 and it deleted all my VectorWorks design files that were on my hard disk. I kept all my design files in a separate folder outside of the VW2008 file. When I click on "open recent files" the list is blank. Needless to say the boss is mighty upset. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Have you checked the actual location on the hard disk where the files are stored? Our updaters very rarely delete any file, and when they do, it's targeted to a single file name. Quote Link to comment
COMJAX Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I just downloaded SP2 and it deleted all my VectorWorks design files that were on my hard disk. I kept all my design files in a separate folder outside of the VW2008 file. When I click on "open recent files" the list is blank. Needless to say the boss is mighty upset. Uhhh, Have you looked in the source folder? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Andrew Bell@NV Posted January 15, 2008 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 15, 2008 I just downloaded SP2 and it deleted all my VectorWorks design files that were on my hard disk. I kept all my design files in a separate folder outside of the VW2008 file. When I click on "open recent files" the list is blank. Needless to say the boss is mighty upset. The recent files list is a list stored by VectorWorks, not something linked to the actual files. Use the File Open dialog to look for your files and they should be there. Quote Link to comment
kgood Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 All my VW design files were kept in a folder called "DESIGN" which was located on my hard drive and had an alias on my desktop. The design Folder Icon was/is gone from my hard drive. The icon was still on the desktop, when I open up the folder there is 1 folder(out of 15) and 0 files(out of 100+) inside it. Everything is gone. If I click on the Apple icon on the menu bar a go to "recent items" there are 5 different client files in there. If I click on those nothing happens. I did a search for a file I that was in my Design folder and the search has come up with nothing. Lesson learned - Make sure you back up to an external drive, and disconnect it , before you download SP2. Quote Link to comment
kgood Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 I just finished the Apple disc utility and my hard drive passed. It also passed everything on the TechTool Deluxe scan. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 If it happens to be that your folder appears to be missing but the alias pointing to it still yields a location with a folder in it, I'd be more concerned about a problem with your filesystem than VW doing anything. If an alias is pointing to another folder, and that folder doesn't exist, you wouldn't be seeing anything. I'd make a backup of your whole system in case something unfortunate is going on with your filesystem or drive. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Where was the Design folder located at on your system? Quote Link to comment
COMJAX Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Where was the Design folder located at on your system? I'll take a wild guess and say it was IN the VW file folder. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Well, even then it wouldn't delete it, but I'm more curious if it was network mounted or anything, some way to explain how the finder would be willing to display something that doesn't exist. Quote Link to comment
bclydeb Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I am Kgood's employer. He and I have run all the Apple supplied diagnostics and TechTool type stuff I have as well. No explanations. I advised Kgood to take this problem to the Apple Store Guru desk. So he will set up an appointment there. The volume was not network mounted. I know where the destroyed folder was located on his computer. It was not in the VW folder, nor in the VW folder in Library>Application Support>etc., but in a "normal" documents place. I suspect a corrupted disk directory, but the recovery program did not find any deleted file entities to restore/recover. Computers are the weirdest things. They "save time" only to wipe everything out by things which can only be explained by the operation of the 2nd Law OF Thermodynamics. (Order decays to disorder - via changes in energy - no reverse mechanism is known to exist.) Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Computers are the weirdest things. They "save time" only to wipe everything out by things which can only be explained by the operation of the 2nd Law OF Thermodynamics. (Order decays to disorder - via changes in energy - no reverse mechanism is known to exist.) I was discussing this the other day with someone. Computers make us more productive, but how much time do we spend trying to domesticate these machines. I'd say in the end it's still a net gain, but wow, what a hassle they are. Quote Link to comment
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