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Trash can recover
Jesse Beals, Photographer
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Tracyton | WA | USA | Posted: 6:11 PM on 10.02.10 |
->> I own a Macbook Pro version 10.6.3 (2.66 GHZ Intel Core i7
Dumped some files on Tuesday that I thought had transferred to my external hard drive. Well they didn't.
Any recovery software out there that you might recommend? |
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Kevin Novak, Photographer, Assistant
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Bel Air (Baltimore) | MD | USA | Posted: 6:23 PM on 10.02.10 |
| ->> Might you have them on a time machine backup? |
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Jesse Beals, Photographer
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Tracyton | WA | USA | Posted: 6:45 PM on 10.02.10 |
| ->> Time Machine was off. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 1:38 AM on 10.03.10 |
->> A lot of the time you're SOL... Especially if you've used the computer since...
Best chance is to not do anything on the computer... http://www.squidoo.com/recovertrashmac looks like the standard way of doing it. Anything you have to download, download to another disk and install and run on that disk so you don't overwrite more. Usually you can recover some of the data, but rarely all. |
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Dave Einsel, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Houston | TX | United States | Posted: 9:41 AM on 10.03.10 |
->> If you have another Mac, or access to one, you have a good chance of recovering the files with Data Rescue.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
Start your laptop as a "T" drive by restarting while holding down the T key.
This makes your laptop a firewire drive.
Connect it like any other drive to the other Mac and run Data Rescue on the laptop drive.
There are several options to scan and recover. Try a search for deleted files first. If that does not find everything, try the thorough scan. These scans may take some time so be prepared to start the process and then go do something else or go to bed.
Be aware that your recovered file will not have the same name as the deleted ones and don't be surprised at what else is recovered. Chances are you find images that you thought were long gone.
If you have not done anything else with your laptop that would write over the deleted files, you should be able to find them.
Good luck. |
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Mike Burley, Photographer
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Dubuque | Iowa | USA | Posted: 12:11 PM on 10.03.10 |
| ->> I've had pretty good luck with "Stellar Phoenix" - its $100, but was able to recover quite a few files from the trash after I deleted them. It only works (as with most recovery) if you dont write new files over the free'd up space. The sooner you recover the better. Good luck. |
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Dylan Lynch, Photographer, Assistant
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Edmonton | AB | Canada | Posted: 12:36 PM on 10.03.10 |
->> I've used everything, and my favorite (for memory cards at least) is PhotoRec (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec). It may seem a little iffy at first, their website is a wiki, after all - but I've had to use this tool 7 times for memory card screw ups at events, and its never let me down. The best part? it's completely free.
I had to recover my trash about 2 weeks ago with PhotoRec, and it did the job. The only huge pain about recovering trash is how much stuff was actually in there. PhotoRec recovered 75,000 jpg's, and you have to search through them all to find your files. NOTE: When something is trashed, the filename is gone forever - so don't expect to recover in order, every recovery system recovers randomly and names the files randomly.. once you deal with this a few times I'm sure most people are more careful! heh. |
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