generally, +1 for everything. 2013/4/25 Urs Liska <[email protected]>: > Do you know of someone > having actually recovered from a text file suffering from a disk crash - > and not having spent more work than starting again from scratch?
Myself, to sme extent. I accidentally erased my whole disk and had to use file recovery tools. Probably due to my disk being an SSD, i got dozens of copies of recovered files. In case of binary/xml ones (like spreadsheets), many of them were broken (couldn't be opened by the program), and anyway it was very cumbersome to compare them to find the most recent one. In case of text files, vast majority could be opened and quite easily compared, even the not-exactly-human-readable lyx files. Also, i got some extensionless files, and some "clumps" that contained parts of different files. It was doable to grep them (e.g. searching for lilypond or git commands) and extract useful parts (it took a lot of time, but well... i don't even try to imagine how much work would it be to extract and merge *parts of xml files*). Sure, if the data was mission-critical and i had a lot of money, a recovery company could probably rescue a lot of xml/binary data, but it would cost a fortune. best, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
