Hi, On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:54, Stewart Williams <lists at pinkyboots.co.uk> wrote: > $ find / -iname "*.jpg" -or "*.JPG" This syntax is invalid, this is what I get under CentOS 5: # find / -iname "*.jpg" -or "*.JPG" find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] What you probably meant is find / -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname "*.JPG", but as it was already pointed out, -iname is case-insensitive, so all you need is: # find / -iname "*.jpg" If you used the wrong command, maybe run it again? > unless it's a bug with fuse-encfs. If you are using ext3 over fuse-encfs, if there is a problem with fuse-encfs it would bork your ext3 filesystem, but probably the end result would be a corrupted and unusable filesystem, not one with files missing. In any case, you might try to unmount it and run fsck over it to see if there is something wrong with it. If the filesystem got corrupted, by running fsck it might be able to find the missing files and save them under lost+found, it's a long shot, but if you tried everything else it might be worth trying. HTH, Filipe