Hello all I have been searching high and low for a solution. Originally I thought that I was having a problem with samba creating a shortcut or something to files on my windows machine and when I would delete the files from windows I would loose the file on linux. Well today I installed MySQL and it went off without a hitch. But the mistake I made was renaming the directory. Which I had been doing on the directories I moved from windows. Now I think the files must still be somewhere on the drive because when I do a ]$locate mysql-standard...blah..blah using the original foot long directory name I see all the files that were in it listed. But when I ]$ls -la from the original parent dirctory I dont see that mysql-standard.... So what I am curious about where do these files go when they dont move as they should? Why didn't they move? And above all can I get them back? Any words of wisdom, encouragment, sympathy? haha This problem has been driving me crazy. Is there some config file somewhere that is not quite right that would cause these files to get lost in the mv. Where oh where have my little files gone? please help.

Thanks

You didn't actually describe where you moved
them to, and how you did it. As for the locate,
that will be fixed on the next reboot or so ;)

Or run updatedb manually. It doesn't keep
track of files over times, it takes snapshots.

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Cheers,
Tink

Well the mysql folder I executed "mv mysql-standard.x.x.i686 mysql" for the other folders, for the most part I used mv to move whole directories from either /tmp or /home/usr to /tmp/files. Some directories were renamed in the gui in order to remove spaces. The newly named directories only contain some of the files if any. I did most of this as su. Any ideas.

Your description still leaves me at loss.
How many directories did you move?
Which ones did you lose?

What did locate say after updatedb?


Cheers,
Tink