on 2013-05-31 16:47 Rudolf O. Durrer wrote
Yeah, could have well been Norton.
memory jogged slightly, another tool was Complete Undelete
As far as my memory isn't too bad, it was just about a bit been switched ON or OFF to make the deleted stuff reappear (well, as far as portions of the file were not overwritten later). And this is, what I'm looking for
it is far more than a single bit; tools like Complete Undelete had to be installed before you deleted the files, and were constantly active in the background maintaining a separate "shadow catalog" of files that had been deleted, including metadata; to undelete, they essentially created a new file entry in the directory catalog and copied the contents from the (hopefully not overwritten) data extents
it's no wonder tools like Time Machine, plus cloud/redundancy services, have decimated the market for undelete tools; Time Machine comes with a significant cyclical performance hit, though, if you run it at default settings a drive with a relatively large number of files
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