Tahnks Eric; unfortunately, it's much more than the library files for Garritan; all the Finale wav files that were loaded into Soundtrack to do the mixing and create final demos lived there, and there was over 2 hours of music there, and to re-save as all those would represent hundreds of man-hours, etc.. It's nuts. Foolish me for rushing this morning. BAD IDEA! Am wondering if there is a way to LOCK the drive (I know I can lock individual files on the drive to avoid accidental deletion or erasure) to insure that if I have another brain failure i won't make my life miserable again. I'm going to explore the situation when i get home tonight and see what I can see. Thanks to all for your suggestions: am welcoming more advice if anyone has it. I need to learn how to use my firewire for a routine back up as well so I don't let it go when I get preoccupied.
> Well, you didn't do a low level format, which would have taken sometime, > and totally destroyed everything. What you did was wipe out all the > directories and stuff, effectively formatting the drive. The OS has no > idea how to find files. I believe it is different than if you had taken > the whole contents of your drive to the Trash and then emptied the trash. > > You need some of those specialized tools to have it examine the drive > sector by sector to salvage files. It might work, and it might not. I've > done similar recovery on my Windows XP machine using a program (which I > can't remember the name of), and it took days to run. Though it was on a > bad drive, so, that could have been some of the problem. > > Your best bet still is to look at your back up, and see if that will > work for you. If it is just sound libraries, then the backup should do, > even if it is old (assuming you haven't changed your library). Unless > there is some sort of project on that drive that you absolutely need and > can't live without, or some other file you absolutely need. > > If you really wanted to try to salvage it, and want to work in the mean > time, go get another drive, restore your backup to that, then when you > have free time, try running one of those recovery programs. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I took a trip to the local Apple Store (Providence Mall) and one of the >> techs said to check my Trash; the files may still be there. (otherwise >> he >> recommended a 3rd party product; thank you all for your suggestions). >> The >> question I didn't think to ask him (until after I left, naturally) >> was, the drive has not been re-formatted; but, it does not have the name >> I >> gave it, so I'm assuming it will need to be formatted before I can >> move the files back on to it. Is this true? AND, I do understand there >> is >> a distinction between recovering formatted disks and Un-deleting. What I >> need is un-delete. I'm assuming if I re-format, all chances of >> recovering the files are lost; yes, or no? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
