On or near 1/30/2001 10:17 AM, Harry (lists) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
>
> So, the drive I kept my MS User Data folder on crashed, and while I was
> able to recover what appears to be everything (thank god for Data-Rescue,
> since neither Norton, nor TechTool found anything), the only file that
> matters appears to be corrupted - and that would be the OE Database file.
Harry, if you still have that original crashed drive, you might try using
Disk Warrior on it. I've seen DW recover files from disks where nothing else
would work.
However, if Data-Rescue (what is that?) has done the best job it can and the
result is an incomplete file, then your original file must have been damaged
in the crash and some of its information is literally scratched from the
disk. In that case, probably the only recourse is manually editing the
Messages file and extracting what text you can. Options there: BBEdit (even
the free Light version) will probably do it. Can Opener might also.
If you can get some information on what marks the start and end of a message
in the Messages file, we might be able to throw together an Applescript to
generate individual text file versions of each message. If you happen to
have MacPerl installed or are willing to download and install it, a Perl
script would probably be even faster and more flexible at the latter job.
Such a "disaster recovery" script might be useful to more people than you.
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