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Wade Smart wrote:

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> 20090219 1823 GMT-5
> 
> I had posted here recently about a grub problem. After getting that done
> -- like hour later - was the first day this happened. I started a scan 
> of all three of my hard drives this morning before leaving on a trip. 
> When I got home it had found all my files but on a hard drive that I 
> think was the one that was messed up in grub.
> 
> I moved all the files over to where they should be but, Im not sure why 
> there were posted there in the first place.
> 
> See, I have two drives: at some point in time when I reinstalled ubuntu 
> or when I reinstalled the drives after working on my computer I switched 
> the location of the drives. I guess that was enough to cause problems 
> over time.
> 
> Now though the drives are in the correct order physically again, my 
> files apparently went to the other location.
> 
> I dont understand all of this but for the next few days what Im going to 
> do is save it in my chosen location and then check it immediately.
> 
> Wade
>

Wade, did you at any time copy one hard drive to the other.  There are
several instructions on the net people use when upgrading hard drives
that have them using dd or some other drive cloning tool when they are
upgrading or changing drives with Linux.  Unfortunately, those
instructions are often a little out of date with Ubuntu and don't take
into account Ubuntu's reliance on each filesystem having a unique UUID.
  Getting duplicate UUID's can cause all kinds of weirdness.