Recovering Clairsworks files

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I accidently erased one of my backup hard drives right after I had a catsrophic hard drive failure on my laptop. (don't ask why I erased the backup, it was a real boneheaded manuever)

Anyway, I was able to use Norton to recover the more irreplacable files, like my illustrator/photoshop artwork.

However some clarisworks databases I have don't seem to want to work.

Is there something special about how these files are stored that I need to know in order to properly recover them? The parts I seem to get don't appear to be big enough to contain the whole database, they seem more like... some kind of wrapper, and that the data is in a different file.

While not completely irreplaceable, they represent months of work.
Any ideas?
 
You could have Norton's disk doctor go over those files. Well, actually, have Norton go over the entire drive you just rescued.

If you are trying to open these files in ClarisWorks, try opening them in SimpleText as a text file. You should get all the info.
 
i did open the resulting files in simpletext, all the data was not there.
The files seemd more like header info. That's why I suspect that there is a seperate file containing the data.

As far as going over the whole drive. unless i'm searching for specific file type it's just not practical. This was a 40GB external that was almost filled. The number of file fragments that a complete search turns up are in the thousands. Unless I know exactly what I'm looking for, I'm pretty well screwed.
 
Actually, if you run Norton, you just may be able to get those files in tack. I think it is worth the try.
 
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