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_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
