Am 03.06.2013 um 04.15 schrieb steve harley:

> 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

Well, I'm not very familiar with Time Machine and the impact it may have to the 
other work when using "only" USB 2.
I have a MBP and a Mini equipped with Thunderbird, but unfortunately only USB 2 
(Reminds me of my old Powerbook: PCI slots and nothing to connect 
therein...Apple's sometimes going its own strange way). 

Thanks anyhow to all contributors.
Rudolf_______________________________________________
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