[daemon1]

Just a thought, i can undelete files in FAT, NTFS, ext2, ext3 etc etc...

can this be done with HFS+ or UFS?

what are the tools out there that can do it for the mac?

[gorickey]

http://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/ms2-ma...20and%20os%20x

[Ω]

Any ideas about this:

"Live internet connection is required while running & operating VirtualLab™"

Is is for online help? Or is information being passed back to them?

[Person Man]

Originally posted by _?_:
Any ideas about this:

"Live internet connection is required while running & operating VirtualLab™"

Is is for online help? Or is information being passed back to them?

Information is being passed back to them.

[Moonray]

Originally posted by Person Man:
Information is being passed back to them.

I would never use such an utility.
And somehow I don't like their webpage either.

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[CharlesS]

Norton UnErase can recover deleted files (just don't use the Disk Doctor component). Also, Data Rescue sometimes can get deleted files back also.

[yukon]

doemon1, there are rumours that Apple inteneded to put this functionality into 10.3 or 10.2, calling it "junkyard". Despite macosrumours.com's stellar record, they were inaccurate or incorrect. You can assume they'll say it's in 10.4, or it was just another experiment at Apple. A nice feature, but it teaches less desirable methods like "I'll just undelete that later", and it's a bit of a waste of resources. Still, I used to find a "Go to Trash" temporary folder nice when I was learning, for watching what you trash.

And yes, there was sarcasm in there, but they're a fun read anyway for wasting time.

[DominikHoffmann]

Originally posted by daemon1:
can this be done with HFS+ or UFS?

what are the tools out there that can do it for the mac?

I just downloaded Diskwarrior and am wondering whether repairing a directory with Diskwarrior will also recover accidentally deleted files. My guess is that it won't, as such a process won't generate a corrupted directory.

Dominik Hoffmann

[gorickey]

Originally posted by DominikHoffmann:
I just downloaded Diskwarrior and am wondering whether repairing a directory with Diskwarrior will also recover accidentally deleted files. My guess is that it won't, as such a process won't generate a corrupted directory.

Dominik Hoffmann

DW 3 does not recover deleted files after fixing directory issues...

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by DominikHoffmann:
I just downloaded Diskwarrior and am wondering whether repairing a directory with Diskwarrior will also recover accidentally deleted files. My guess is that it won't, as such a process won't generate a corrupted directory.

Dominik Hoffmann

Henderson's right, DW doesn't do this sort of thing. Plus, how could an app know if something was accidently deleted?

[Geobunny]

Recovering files is possible on HFS+ however, OS X 10.3 optimises files on-the-fly which means that when a file is accessed (opened/saved), the file is defragmented and moved to a section of disk which is accessed more frequently. This makes it remarkably difficult to recover deleted files now.

[Blanchard]

I must say that Virtual Lab did a quite good job in recovering a document I had trashed a week before and that was a big relief.

They require a connection because you pay for a "quota" of how many gigs you want to recover. You specify your file type, then Virtual Lab recovers every file it can find with that type, but none has any title - it seems OS X erases the title when you trash a file. Anyways, once you see all the files it has recovered, you go on their website and buy a quota - 20$ for 20 gig, 30$ for 50 g, 100$ for 200 gig or so.

It really did save me a good amount of work.

But I don't like the whole idea. It's a bit like "subscription", sincve you never really own the software, you need to go on their site and pay to use it.