On 12/10/06, Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
Hello,
after updating to the latest ConTeXt release (via i-Installer on my Mac) all my custom files are gone! I put them in .../texmf.local/tex/ context/user/ and now there is emptiness :-( The installer shouldn't touch those files, right?
As already suggested, contact the mac mailing list. For the next time you can place your files anywhere on the disk, for example to /your/home/mytexmf/tex/context/user/ and then edit texmf.cnf by adding MYTEXMF = /your/home/mytexmf/tex/context/user/ and adit TEXMF and TEXMFDBS according to the pattern you see there. Run mktexlsr afterwards (I guess that if you update, you'll have to repeat that process anyway, but at least you won't loose the files any more). An advantage in that approach is that you can also use the same files under more than one operating system.
Is there a way to recover them?
Did you take a look into .Trash in your home folder? If you had some luck that's probably the only way to find it without hacking (using special programs to recover deleted files from disk) ... Mojca