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# 1  
Old 03-17-2008
MV'd a file, now it's disappeared...
I'm doing an assignment for a Unix course at school.

I attempted to rename one of the shell programming questions from home to Q1 by typing:

mv home Q1

It returned a message saying

mv: cannot access home

And now there's no home or Q1 in the directory. Please help!
# 2  
Old 06-15-2009
What happened to this? How did you resolve this? I am facing the same issue.

Please Help.

How much time a big file takes to rename?
# 3  
Old 06-15-2009
At what level was "home" originally? (the pathname)
Last edited by MINICooperS; 06-15-2009 at 11:34 PM..
# 4  
Old 06-15-2009
But What would make a file disappear?
# 5  
Old 06-15-2009
Hard to say without knowing your syntax. Are you running CDE by chance? Check your trash? And how full is your disk?
# 6  
Old 06-15-2009
No CDE.

It was a plain command

mv oldfile newfile:
# 7  
Old 06-16-2009
Would still like to know how full your HDD is.
I'm running HP-UX 11.0 using the CDE (Common Desktop Environment) on an HP b2600 Workstation.
What are you running and on what?
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