On Oct 10, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Diane wrote:
> > On Fri, October 10, 2008 7:47 pm, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >> >> empty trash routine has been done.... next? > > Data recovery :( > > If it was an Office file, I did find a couple of apps that will > recover > them. How these apps differ from regular recovery apps is beyond > me, but > they were much less money. > > Barring that Data Rescue from Prosoft gets rave reviews. I ordered it > recently but have not yet had to use it. > > I feel for you, I had a friend do the same thing recently. :( > > Diane > One caveat, 'Data Recovery', only works well IF there hasn't been any continued use of the computer. Normal, 'every day', creating files, moving things around, etc. uses 'disk space' from the 'available space pool', which is a listing of all empty sectors of the HD. The 'Empty Trash' routine places all of those used sectors, back into the 'available pool'. The only things that there is even a hope of recovery for, are things whose sectors haven't been re-used. Commercial Data Recovery operations are EXPENSIVE. [Of course, depending on the value of the 'Lost Data', expense may not be a consideration.] Chuck --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
