OK basically turning off the machine is good.... that prevents stuff
from being overwritten.
of course the first question is did you actually empty the trash? -
you'd be surprised at the amount of stuff that my clients have
"deleted" only to have me pull it out of the trash/recycle bin and
then walk away within 10 seconds of sitting down at the machine....
that's the case in about 95% of "deleted files" problems my users
have.
what you didn't say is what sort of mac and what OS you are running.
Old PowerMacintosh machines using SCSI drives probably would be best
being recovered on similarly equipped machines running an older
compatible version of Norton's Disk Utilities.
I've tried to recover SCSI drives with my OSX disk recovery utility
and had rather variable results
Maybe someone one the list has a better solution for that sort of a situation.
Older PowerMacintoshes with IDE would probably best with the second
solution listed below
If you are running IDE hard drive on a G3/G4 that won't boot in to
target mode (basically anything without Firewire built in - and has
to be built in not a IDE/PC-Card Firewire card) then theire are two
possible solutions.
1: boot from a CD with a recovery utility and save to a external USB
drive (make sure the utility disk has an boot os with USB drivers
some versions of Nortons tools didn't)
I can probably try dig up a copy of a suitable version of Nortons or
Tech Tools if no one on the list has one more readily at hand.
2: the second solution is to remove the hard disk and mount it in a
G3/G4 tower on the IDE chain and recover the data to the machines
boot drive.
I've found it problematic (and often impossible depending on the
utility) to recover data from a drive mounted in an external
Firewire/USB drive.
If your machine is newish and will boot to target mode it's worth
giving the data recovery tools a spin over it from a separate machine
while mounted in target mode but if that fails (see above) then
extracting the hard disk to try the last solution mentioned above is
probably going to be more successful.
Lastly another solution is to have a second machine that can boot to
target mode and has the recovery utility on it and and boot your
computer off of this second computer's system disk - of course this
requires your mac to have a built in Firewire port so hardware like
old G3 iMacs are not compatible with this solution.
if you have a IDE drive that you can easily extract ie a tower unit
or the G5 iMac then I can probably have a crack at it though you
would need to bring the drive to me and then pick it up (I couldn't
give you a fast turn around as I'd have to fit it in to my normal
9-5).
If it is to difficult to extract the drive and bring it in I'm sure
some one on the list (such as my self) would be able to visit (or you
could lug your computer to their place) and do this with a laptop to
try the last mentioned solution.
Hi all
A friend has deleted an important folder in the belief it was the backup copy.
Oops!
I've searched the archives and google (a bit) but nothing really
jumps out as an obvious recovery utility.
I have gleaned that it isn't too hopeful as some or all data may
already have been overwritten.
It was on a secondary drive so she may have a little chance left.
She has turned it off and fired up her 5500 to search for a solution.
Has anyone a positive result from a similar scenario?
Thanks
Paul (and Kim)
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