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I uninstalled Homebrew using https://superuser.com/a/203740.

After running the above commands, I can't find .bashrc and .bash_profle. All files are gone from Documents , Desktop and Downloads :'(

When I do git status on /Users/ava it shows:

# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

... all the files which are in /Users/ava

history

 113  cd `brew --prefix`
  114  rm -rf Cellar
  115  brew prune
  116  rm `git ls-files`
  117  rm -r Library/Homebrew Library/Aliases Library/Formula Library/Contributions
  118  rm -rf .git
  119  rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew
  120  sudo chown -R $USER:admin /usr/local
  121  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
  122  brew doctor

What just happened?

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Ava
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  • You probably have them in Time Machine somewhere, either on an external drive or Time Capsule or in local snapshots. Try restoring your folders from there. I'm not sure if Time Machine can show hidden files like .bashrc; if so, you should follow these instructions before going into Time Machine to restore those files. – echristopherson Aug 17 '13 at 02:55

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If git was tracking all the files under /Users/ava then the

rm `git ls-files`

command will have deleted them all (which I imagine is what your git status output is telling you.

If the files you are talking about aren't in that list then I'm not sure which of those rm commands might have caused the problem.

Etan Reisner
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  • Is there any way to undo this? Why did it delete my files from Desktop, Documents, Downloads and .bashrc_profile? – Ava Aug 16 '13 at 22:59
  • Do you see those files listed in the git output? Actually that's a question too. Why does git still think you have a repository if you removed the .git directory? If the files aren't listed in the git output then you have to hope that they are in the OS X trash (or similar location). Failing that you are talking about data recovery and that's not necessarily a simple task. If you do need the data recovery route you should stop using the drive/computer as soon as possible (every time the computer needs to use the disk it has a chance of stomping over your deleted data). – Etan Reisner Aug 16 '13 at 23:07
  • No! document/desktop/downloads/.bashrc/.bashrc_profile files dont show up on git status. – Ava Aug 16 '13 at 23:15
  • The full paths to those files are /Users/ava/Documents, /Users/ava/Desktop, /Users/ava/.bashrc, etc.? And git status from in /Users/ava doesn't list them? I'm assuming it does list other (brew related) files from under /Users/ava though? – Etan Reisner Aug 16 '13 at 23:31
  • Yes they were all under /Users/ava. No git status does not list them. It shows few of my projects under it but I am not very sure what all went missing and what is remaining. The above mentioned are definitely gone. – Ava Aug 17 '13 at 16:42
  • I'm still not sure what could have caused the files to get deleted but it doesn't look like you have any easy recovery route (unless they are in the OS X trash). You probably need to start looking into deleted file recovery methods (and possibly using a recovery service depending on how important the files that are missing are). Someone with more expertise in file recovery and/or OS X might have something more useful to suggest. – Etan Reisner Aug 18 '13 at 14:58
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This line looks fishy: sudo chown -R $USER:admin /usr/local

Are you an admin? Run groups to find out. I don't know what your original /usr/local ownership settings were, but here's mine (and I regularly use git and brew):

lovelace% ls -dl /usr/local
drwxrwxr-x  18 root  admin  612 Aug  5 15:30 /usr/local

It looks like root:admin should be the owner of /usr/local. Try:

sudo chown -R root:admin /usr/local
Quint
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  • Part of the point of Homebrew is that you don't need to be root. brew doctor will warn you if you can't write to /usr/local, and recommend you chown the directory back to your user account. – Annika Backstrom Aug 17 '13 at 04:05
  • groups - 906175167 com.apple.access_screensharing everyone _appstore netaccounts _appserverusr admin _appserveradm _lpadmin _lpoperator _developer – Ava Aug 17 '13 at 05:45
  • sudo chown -R root:admin /usr/local gives

    WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

    To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

     – Ava Aug 17 '13 at 05:46