[chrisutley]

My Mom somehow managed to trash her entire iPhoto data directory and doesn't have a current backup (pls don't ask how). Does anybody know a good good free/cheap utility that can recover trashed files (assuming they haven't been overwritten yet)? She's running Tiger ...

I found something from SubRosa, but it's $50 just to recover media files which seems kind of bush league. I mean I cold deal with $50 to recover ALL file types but just jpg, tiff, avi, etc.?

If you know of something... Thanks!

[CharlesS]

The best one around is DataRescue, from ProSoft Engineering (www.prosoft.com). However, you need to make sure you don't do anything with that computer until you have recovered the files - every move you make increases the likelihood that something will get overwritten.

[Rev-O]

Another vote for Data Rescue II
I had a logic board death that killed my boot HD that had a couple of months worth of unbacked up data (DV footage, music, and several hundred photos). Instead of forking out huge dollars for data recovery I opted to buy Data Rescue II for $100 and it worked like a charm.