That was a bad trip
Tuesday October 28, 2003 – 11:23 amI think I’m back to more or less where I was before my data started getting corrupted on the iBook. WTF was that about?!? I had to make a new username and delete the old one, but the new one seems to work fine. Backed up my files first, and recovered what I could. Nothing to speak of was lost that I didn’t have backed up… in the end it seemed the only files that were really corrupted were system-related. I.e. many preference files were hosed, all the bookmarks, keychains, software licenses etc. Which caused everything to go wacky and not let me view my files. Dunno, I just hope it never happens again.
I kinda want to go back to using Mail.app in OSX. I found a copy of my old mail folder as it existed at the end of August, just before I took everything over to Evolution… it appears to work, so all I have to migrate from Evolution is the stuff that’s come in and gone out since then. That’ll be easy, I can set up a virtual folder thing and grab them all that way. I’m going to miss using Evolution but only the mail portion — for everything else, I guess I prefer the way the OSX counterparts work, and I love keeping the info on my iPod. I never figured out how to deal with that in Linux.







October 30th, 2003 at 4:37 pm
Check out this Wired story. There appears to be a glitch in Panther related to your problem:
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61031,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
October 30th, 2003 at 9:05 pm
I don’t think *that* was my problem though I guess it’s possible. Apple claims only FW800 drives are affected; mine is FW400. They claim the drive has to be attached upon install of Panther; I didn’t do that. Also the files that got corrupted weren’t on the external drive; they were system files on my internal HD. I still think it had to have something to do with the new encryption tool! Fles don’t normally end up as gobbledeygook on their own. And I haven’t had any more problems since I turned it off, not that that necessarily means anything.
October 30th, 2003 at 9:37 pm
I haven’t run into problems of file corruption on Panther installs here in the lab. However, there were some weird problems with permissions getting all screwy, especially after doing an archive install instead of an upgrade.
The only other explanation I can think of offhand for the problems you faced with file corruption would be due to upgrading the filesystem. But more often than not, a botched filesystem modification would make the entire disk/partition unreadable, as opposed to scrogging system files.
I’ve heard that the new Mail program in Panther is quite good, almost worth the OS upgrade in itself. Having seen it in action, I’m quite impressed.