on 2013-05-28 6:07 Eric Weir wrote
Thanks, Steve. Wish that it were so. Unfortunately it seems not to be.
no luck with Spotlight?
Yesterday afternoon I downloaded StellarPhoenixMacDataRecoveryand set it to work scanning for photo files. It churned away till about 7:30 AM
this morning. The result? "No data found." I take that as final and conclusive.
i'm not sure i would trust that software to the point of taking the result as
conclusive; it gets very mixed reviews
the main reasons you'd want to try this approach (and there are better apps for
it) is if you had deleted the files and emptied the trash, or if you had major
disk corruption; from what you have said, i wouldn't assume either, so even if
Stellar Phoenix were trustworthy, it wouldn't find what you are looking for
i wouldn't give up yet; the description you give doesn't give me any clear
sense of why the files would disappear; did any other files disappear?
In my initial post yesterday I asked how this could have been avoided. I have
two thoughts: [1] Trust Time Machine, which accumulates backups till the drive
being used runs out of space. [My daily backups to two drives, which provided
only two days of backups, was worthless.] [2] Don't leave your database
unattended for extended periods of time. Visit frequently.
probably the best advice about backups is "test your backup system"
you said you use Carbon Copy Cloner in addition to Time Machine; this is a good
basic approach, but it requires your Time Machine volume to be big enough to
hang onto some stuff, and your clones to be done using the incremental option
(hangs onto deleted & changed items when the clone is made); based on what you
said, i'm not certain what you're doing, but i'd take another look at how
you've configured CCC
as a two-bit consultant who occasionally saves people from backup disasters, i
would consider another possibility; if TM was restarted, such as might have
happened if it thought you had a new internal disk drive, the old TM archive
may still be on the backup drive; if that's the case, here's how to browse the
old archive:
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1147185/alttimemachinedrives.html>
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