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From: Andy Hewitt on 3 Apr 2010 06:09
I'm a little puzzled by what I see in my trash after almost every
restart. I nearly always see the 'Recovered items' folder, and it's
nearly always got loads of media files from iWeb in it [1].

Something up in iWeb I've been thinking, although I've not had any
problems with it, as far as I can see, most of my web pages are running
OK.

I've recently been playing with RapidWeaver, just to see if I can get it
to replace iWeb [2], and now I see there's RapidWeaver items in the
'Recovered items' folder too.

I don't get any other files appearing after a reboot, so is this just a
weird thing with web site editors? Is this just perhaps a simple cache
clearing?

[1] I use iWeb quite a lot, and edit a site at least two or three times
a week.
[2] I started to migrate a site over to RW, but find it also has bugs
and problems, and some things just don't work - such as some of the
functions in the blog templates. So far it's harder work, and less
reliable than iWeb is.

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Andy Hewitt
<http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Rowland McDonnell on 4 Apr 2010 21:11
Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote:

> I'm a little puzzled by what I see in my trash after almost every
> restart. I nearly always see the 'Recovered items' folder, and it's
> nearly always got loads of media files from iWeb in it [1].
>
> Something up in iWeb I've been thinking, although I've not had any
> problems with it, as far as I can see, most of my web pages are running
> OK.
>
> I've recently been playing with RapidWeaver, just to see if I can get it
> to replace iWeb [2], and now I see there's RapidWeaver items in the
> 'Recovered items' folder too.
>
> I don't get any other files appearing after a reboot, so is this just a
> weird thing with web site editors? Is this just perhaps a simple cache
> clearing?

[snip]

I've no idea at all what the details of this business are, but I do know
that I've seen a lot of `Recovered files' appearing like that myself,
and they've done it to me since the pre OS X days.

Seems that the MacOS has something built in to it to recover files lost
due to crashing, and the mechanism errs on the side of caution so you
get files `Recovered' that were meant to have gone for good, and it
seems (here at least) to mostly be files from particular apps. Dunno
why - maybe the software writing the files in question fails to exit
elegantly?

Any time I've investigated such files in detail, there's been nothing
I've wanted to keep in 'em that wasn't in the files I thought they
should have been in, those files in their normal positions on the HDD's
directory structure.

Rowland.

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From: Andy Hewitt on 5 Apr 2010 04:57
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:

> Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote:
[..]
> Any time I've investigated such files in detail, there's been nothing
> I've wanted to keep in 'em that wasn't in the files I thought they
> should have been in, those files in their normal positions on the HDD's
> directory structure.

Yeah, same here too. I'm suspecting they're just files used in a
temporary folder, maybe while the web pages are being created during the
'Publish' operation.

Nothing ever goes missing for real, so I'm not too worried, just
puzzled.

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From: Simon Dobbs on 8 Apr 2010 11:43
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:09:27 +0100, Andy Hewitt wrote
(in article <1jgddds.1gclj98gw4v0gN%thewildrover(a)me.com>):

> I'm a little puzzled by what I see in my trash after almost every
> restart. I nearly always see the 'Recovered items' folder, and it's
> nearly always got loads of media files from iWeb in it [1].
>
> Something up in iWeb I've been thinking, although I've not had any
> problems with it, as far as I can see, most of my web pages are running
> OK.
>
> I've recently been playing with RapidWeaver, just to see if I can get it
> to replace iWeb [2], and now I see there's RapidWeaver items in the
> 'Recovered items' folder too.
>
> I don't get any other files appearing after a reboot, so is this just a
> weird thing with web site editors? Is this just perhaps a simple cache
> clearing?
>
> [1] I use iWeb quite a lot, and edit a site at least two or three times
> a week.
> [2] I started to migrate a site over to RW, but find it also has bugs
> and problems, and some things just don't work - such as some of the
> functions in the blog templates. So far it's harder work, and less
> reliable than iWeb is.
>
>

When I get "recovered files", the one unexpected thing is always a folder
entitled 'entourage temp'. This is strange because I don't run entourage!

From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 8 Apr 2010 12:38
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:43:53 +0100, Simon Dobbs
<simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:09:27 +0100, Andy Hewitt wrote
>(in article <1jgddds.1gclj98gw4v0gN%thewildrover(a)me.com>):
>
>> I'm a little puzzled by what I see in my trash after almost every
>> restart. I nearly always see the 'Recovered items' folder, and it's
>> nearly always got loads of media files from iWeb in it [1].
>>
>> Something up in iWeb I've been thinking, although I've not had any
>> problems with it, as far as I can see, most of my web pages are running
>> OK.
>>
>> I've recently been playing with RapidWeaver, just to see if I can get it
>> to replace iWeb [2], and now I see there's RapidWeaver items in the
>> 'Recovered items' folder too.
>>
>> I don't get any other files appearing after a reboot, so is this just a
>> weird thing with web site editors? Is this just perhaps a simple cache
>> clearing?
>>
>> [1] I use iWeb quite a lot, and edit a site at least two or three times
>> a week.
>> [2] I started to migrate a site over to RW, but find it also has bugs
>> and problems, and some things just don't work - such as some of the
>> functions in the blog templates. So far it's harder work, and less
>> reliable than iWeb is.
>>
>>
>
>When I get "recovered files", the one unexpected thing is always a folder
>entitled 'entourage temp'. This is strange because I don't run entourage!

You do have Office installed though? There's a sync agent that runs
whether Entourage's sync with The Truth is enabled or not, and it's
probably failing to shut down gracefully.

Microsoft Sync Services.app, it is.

Cheers - Jaimie
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