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Can I undelete?
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Join Date: May 2001
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OK, I just did something quite stupid -- I deleted, by accident, a bunch of important files on my (backup) external FireWire drive. This was done by using OS X's GUI Empty Trash command.
The good news is that I realized what I had done immediately, and I haven't used the drive since. I'm hoping that it *might* be possible to recover some of this data, esp. if it hasn't been overwritten yet... I don't have my hopes up high, but...
The bad news seems to be that Drive 10 isn't for sale yet.
Anyway: my question, and request for help. Would any one recommend trying out UNIX file recovery programs (relink, lde...?) to attempt this, or would this be foolish?
I'm a designer with a geeky curious streak (and always interested in learning), but by no means a programmer.
Thanks for any help.
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Originally posted by lookmark:
<STRONG>OK, I just did something quite stupid -- I deleted, by accident, a bunch of important files on my (backup) external FireWire drive. This was done by using OS X's GUI Empty Trash command.
The good news is that I realized what I had done immediately, and I haven't used the drive since. I'm hoping that it *might* be possible to recover some of this data, esp. if it hasn't been overwritten yet... I don't have my hopes up high, but...
The bad news seems to be that Drive 10 isn't for sale yet.
Anyway: my question, and request for help. Would any one recommend trying out UNIX file recovery programs (relink, lde...?) to attempt this, or would this be foolish?
I'm a designer with a geeky curious streak (and always interested in learning), but by no means a programmer.
Thanks for any help.</STRONG>
I can't help with your problem, but the new finder does offer the ability to undo your last action - it is a shame - from my point of view that it is not possible to undo the last few items of the trash - I realize this could cause problems - maybe it should be an option you can turn on/off.
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It's true, one can't undo emptying the trash. It sure would be nice if you could.
I have one more question to add to my plea for help... how does OS X delete files? Does it use "rm"?
Can I boot back into OS 9, and use Tech Tool, or NUM, or do I need a OS X-tuned version of these programs?
(I've tried already using Tech Tool 2 -- a little out of date -- to recover and had no luck.)
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
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I'm not sure whether this will work or not, but the rm command has an undelete function. You can use it by typing 'rm -W [file]'
Check the manual page for rm for more info ('man rm')
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<STRONG>I'm not sure whether this will work or not, but the rm command has an undelete function. You can use it by typing 'rm -W [file]'
Check the manual page for rm for more info ('man rm')</STRONG>
Hmm! Trying to first delete, then undelete a sample RTF document, I typed:
rm exp.rtf
rm -W exp.rtf
The former worked, but the latter resulted in:
rm: exp.rtf: No such file or directory
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[ 06-10-2001: Message edited by: lookmark ]
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