On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: > Thank you for all of the suggestions. So far I have tried them all but > still cannot fathom it out. The files have just disappeared and I don't > know how or why. > > I think all I can conclude is that they are gone for good. Last gasp: any chance of FS corruption? Maybe an fsck run will show some errors, corrections and put some goodies in lost+found? > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill