[8145] in Hotline Meeting
my account
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan David Bobaljik)
Fri Mar 13 11:37:41 1992
To: accounts@Athena.MIT.EDU, hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, jdbobalj@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 11:37:20 EST
From: Jonathan David Bobaljik <jdbobalj@Athena.MIT.EDU>
I've just spoken to Tom Palka at the Athena HELP line and he suggeted
I contact you. Here's the situation:
I logged in last night on dialup, something I do quite often. I
transferred two text files from my Macintosh, using White Knight,
doing, as far as I know, nothing different from what I have done in
the past with no problems.
I then wanted to send these text files to someone, by replying to
their email note to me and inserting the text files, but I was given
the message : /mit/jdbobalj/Mail doesn't exist, or something to that
effect. It did not say that I was in a temporary directory.
I typed ls and it returned only the two text files I had just sent.
Nothing more. I typed ls -a and it gave me all my .files (of which I
have a lot) but it showed no files without the .prefix other than the
two text files.
I am now at school at the Athena cluster in our building. All my
startup configurations are there, and all my dot files are too, but it
has incorporated the new mail message as "1" in inbox. All my mail
folders are not there, and "inbox" should have been somewhere in the
100's, not at 1.
I am (obviously) very worried. In addition to a bunch of personal
stuff which would be a shame to lose, I collect a lot of my raw data
and comments on my papers via e-mail, which I often don't print out. I
also have a bunch of lists of adresses of people whom I have promised
to send work to, and the Mail folders are full of information crucial
to my thesis, which I don't have duplicated elsewhere.
Please get back to me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I had some stuff on-line
which is supposed to be in Sydney, Australia Monday morning. I am not
panicing yet, but the word nervous comes to mind.
I will log in periodically throughout the day.
My phone #s are: x3-7370, x3-4140, and x3-4139.
I am eagerly waiting to hear from you...
-Jonathan Bobaljik
