[comp.sys.mac.system] HELP! Dissapearing desktop!

jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (12/06/90)

I am having this *extremely* bizarre problem. I am running a Syquest
45MB removable with SilverSeerver drivers (under system 6.0.5).
Occasionally, with no consistent precursors that I can figure, the
desktop in the finder will just dissaper!  All of the files and
folders that were there just go away.

BUT:

1.  Even though there is now only 1 file (or none) listed on the
window, the disk is listed as having 20MB in it (the previous size),
and

2.  When I try to copy the files that were on the Syquest back onto it
(if I still have them), the finder tells me that it can't do it
becuase a file with that name already exists.

I really need to recover these lost files. 

Any ideas will be m,ost appreciated, including commercial programs
that might do it.

jas

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