Undelete / Data recovery programs
Lets just say... I deleted some things during a cleaning up of my hard drive that I have no decided, I did not want to delete. I've been searching Apple's MaxOSX downloads page for a program to search for files that had been erased recently but all of them seem to only recover things from problematic hard drives.
Does anyone know of an app that can attempt to recover deleted files?
Thanks.
Does anyone know of an app that can attempt to recover deleted files?
Thanks.
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Originally posted by xlsupreme
Lets just say... I deleted some things during a cleaning up of my hard drive that I have no decided, I did not want to delete. I've been searching Apple's MaxOSX downloads page for a program to search for files that had been erased recently but all of them seem to only recover things from problematic hard drives.
Does anyone know of an app that can attempt to recover deleted files?
Thanks.
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftwa...&products_id=1
I can't really comment on its effectiveness, but there is a free trial that will at least show you if the files are there (though not allow you to retrieve them until you pay).
Originally posted by Ebby
Data Rescue saved some of my files. I think it is the best for Mac OS X.
At this link, toward the bottom, it says you can download a demo that will let you scan your hard drive to see if it works, and if it does, you can buy it then.
I'd tried some of those already I think, there was one program that made the kernel panic when it did a search. I got it figured out though, those files can be gone. However, I figure it would be good to have something like this around for anything in the future.
Originally posted by Ebby
Take note that if you intend to recover a deleted file, you want to save the demo to a DIFFERENT drive. Once it is overwritten, it is gone for good.
This actually isn't true. Overwritten data is quite easy to recover the first couple of times. There are reasons that secure deleters, and even OS X's disk utility, offer to overwrite some things in excess of 30 times.