that wouldn't have happened if you'd been running linux! oh wait...
JaredB
· 2 years ago
Well, at least it wouldn't have happened spontaneously; maybe user error or a bad app...
nstryker
· 2 years ago
somehow i doubt this was a spontaneous deletion by the operating system.
JaredB
· 2 years ago
I do too, that's why I suggested user or application error .
The majority of errors on any OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) are much more likely to be caused by a faulty configuration or badly behaved application, rather than an error in the OS itself.
JaredB
· 2 years ago
Well, that and user error, which is probably by far the main problem across all systems.
Dan
· 2 years ago
It's one of two things. Firefox or an app failing and corrupting the directory. I'm leaning towards firefox because that is what I was using while I noticed the problem. Even though I've been doing a lot of shell scripting on my local machine for some linux boxes not one of those scripts where running at the time nor would they have done something like this.
I really don't know what went on, I should say that the library directory was cleaned out becuase it's impossible to delete the library directory without admin authorization. And I'm guessing it's firefox because it is the only app that has given me some problems in the past remotely like this. One time it deleted it's own app support directory which is in the library.
Either way it only took about 20 minutes to get most of my settings back from my other laptop. Which is one of the greatest things I've found about OS X and Linux. The worst is setting up my OS X preferences again, which is just annoying.
After I think about it I should have just started over with a new Library directory since I've been meaning to clean up that system for some time.
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The majority of errors on any OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) are much more likely to be caused by a faulty configuration or badly behaved application, rather than an error in the OS itself.
I really don't know what went on, I should say that the library directory was cleaned out becuase it's impossible to delete the library directory without admin authorization. And I'm guessing it's firefox because it is the only app that has given me some problems in the past remotely like this. One time it deleted it's own app support directory which is in the library.
Either way it only took about 20 minutes to get most of my settings back from my other laptop. Which is one of the greatest things I've found about OS X and Linux. The worst is setting up my OS X preferences again, which is just annoying.
After I think about it I should have just started over with a new Library directory since I've been meaning to clean up that system for some time.