Hi there,
I've just been trying to restore files off of a backup DVD I made (had to do a clean install on a friend's machine), and I've come across a folder that is hiding files!

I noticed that there were some files in this folder (~/Documents/Soccer) that didn't copy when I used rsync to copy the files back, so I put the DVD back in and opened up the folder in the Finder. I couldn't find the files there, so I went to the Terminal. (I should note that my Finder preferences are set to show all hidden files).

The files didn't turn up when "ls -af" - in fact, many of the files I could see in the Finder were not listed by the ls command! If I typed "ls sarchive.zip" (one of the missing files) it was listed. I can use "cp" to copy these files, but I can't remember the names of all the missing files.

Does anyone know of a utility to find files that are missing like this (not listed in the Finder or in the Terminal, but can still be accessed if you know the name)?

Thanks

Sounds like you have or had some serious disk corruption there. If this were happening on a regular hard drive, we'd be recommending using DiskWarrior first.

Data Rescue II might be what you need.

Thanks very much, Currawong.

The demo of Data Rescue II gave me a list of all the files on the disk which I put into a file and got rsync to read that file as a source list.

All of my files have been copied without error!

Great suggestion.