Application disappeared

[skunk]

My wife asked me the other day why she couldn't open a Word document on her iBook. I checked, and found that the entire Office suite had disappeared from her apps folder. Not a trace. Spotlight couldn't find anything Word-related at all. She swears she didn't move anything, and frankly, she wouldn't know how to delete an app anyway, as I haven't told her that bit.

Nothing else has changed. Has anyone else had such randomness occur?

 

[iMeowbot]

One inadvertent cmd-delete at the wrong time could do that. I know I've done it before.

 

[skunk]

I suppose that might be it. Strange, though.

 

[iMeowbot]

Just in case, it may be a good time to verify that disk to make sure there aren't any bigger problems lurking.

 

[Shadow]

I agree. In the words on mad jew, try repairing permissions 😛.

 

[skunk]

I agree. In the words on mad jew, try repairing permissions 😛.

Been there, done those. I'll just put it down to random weirdness. 🙄

 

[mad jew]

Hopefully it's randomness. You can lose data through failing hardware or lack of free space on the boot up drive, but I know you're far too intelligent to keep anything less than 8GB free and failing hardware will give you more symptoms than just the single Office loss.

It's most likely a user-oopsie-doo, but verify your hard disk just because it's so fun.