Hi,
Yesterday, around 6 pm, I lost two Applications: Adium (an IM client), and Adobe Acrobat. Adium was open at the time. I received an IM message, went to click on it, and nothing happened. Then I noticed the icon was grayed out. I opened Applications folder and it was gone. A spotlight search revealed nothing.
Just now I noticed Adobe Acrobat was missing. A look at Time Machine told me that it happened between two consecutive updates at 3:45 and 7:30 pm yesterday, so I assume it happened roughly the same time Adium blinked out of existence.
A search of this forum revealed one similar post about a year ago, but it seemed related to an OS X update issue. I have a unibody macbook (not pro) that shipped with 10.5 and the only only updates I have done are minor (to 10.5.8).
A disk utility scan verified my drive as being OK and a virus scan with Clam AV (just to be safe) revealed nothing.
I am a little worried about other programs suddenly going poof! just when I need them the most. Any help would be very much appreciated.
I re-installed Adium from the internet, and simply restores my Adobe folder in my Applications folder using Time Machine. Both work fine and seem to remember my set preferences (so the library support files remained unchanged apparently).
Thanks,
Monica
Yesterday, around 6 pm, I lost two Applications: Adium (an IM client), and Adobe Acrobat. Adium was open at the time. I received an IM message, went to click on it, and nothing happened. Then I noticed the icon was grayed out. I opened Applications folder and it was gone. A spotlight search revealed nothing.
Just now I noticed Adobe Acrobat was missing. A look at Time Machine told me that it happened between two consecutive updates at 3:45 and 7:30 pm yesterday, so I assume it happened roughly the same time Adium blinked out of existence.
A search of this forum revealed one similar post about a year ago, but it seemed related to an OS X update issue. I have a unibody macbook (not pro) that shipped with 10.5 and the only only updates I have done are minor (to 10.5.8).
A disk utility scan verified my drive as being OK and a virus scan with Clam AV (just to be safe) revealed nothing.
I am a little worried about other programs suddenly going poof! just when I need them the most. Any help would be very much appreciated.
I re-installed Adium from the internet, and simply restores my Adobe folder in my Applications folder using Time Machine. Both work fine and seem to remember my set preferences (so the library support files remained unchanged apparently).
Thanks,
Monica
