NEed Help to recover files Deleted

bruce_ferreira · #1 March 6th, 2005, 12:09 PM

Hey guys i need some help here... My girlfriend just deleted all her work and i can´t recover...there´s some utilities that recovers files but they were not installed previous...can anybody tell me if there´s any way of recover the files delleted?? the osx is not the latest but it is 10 and there´s only one drive

ElDiabloConCaca · #2 March 6th, 2005, 03:28 PM

First thing's first: stop using the computer with the deleted files immediately. The longer you use the computer, the better the chance that the deleted files will be overwritten with new data and be completely irrecoverable.

Try downloading Data Rescue and scanning the drive (it may take hours to scan, so be patient):
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1133

bruce_ferreira · #3 March 6th, 2005, 03:46 PM

but it is a notebook!!! i already post a topic asking for a boot cd for macosx

ElDiabloConCaca · #4 March 6th, 2005, 03:56 PM

What does it being a notebook have to do with anything?

If the data is important, stop using the computer. Try the Data Rescue software. Of course, you will need to boot the computer and install the Data Rescue software, so the erased data may be overwritten during this process.

Data Rescue may work over a network, so you may be able to install it on a different Macintosh, then connect via ethernet or something to the laptop and run Data Rescue over the network.

Your other choice is to send the drive off to someone like DriveSavers ( http://www.drivesavers.com/ ), and that'll cost you a few hundred dollars -- possibly up to $1000 -- to recover the data, if it's recoverable at all.

Or, you could restore the data from your backup...

You do have a backup, right?