--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, stephband@... wrote: > > Here's a strange one - > > I dragged Apple Loops from an exernal HD to Loop Browser and chose "leave > files where they are and index" in the pop-up. After three minutes with > a very slow moving progress bar I thought it was taking a suspiciously long > time to index a few files so I chose to Force Quit out of Logic. The Finder > appears but it's not working properly, so I restart the Finder. Now the > Finder reappears but as if I don't have any Preferences. I check. My Preferences > have been zapped. All of them. My Music folder has been emptied. My Pictures > folder, my Mail "Inbox.mbox" and "Outbox.mbox" files have been zapped, and > a non-standard folder called Projects that was in my User directory has been > zapped. I have had that happened. I actually lost 80 gb on two different occasion. I also have a Powerbook G4 and Logic 7.1. I talked to Apple about it and they couldn't figure out whether it was Apple or Logic. Needless to say, I back up a lot more. David