UN*X (or Mac OS X) utility to retrieve deleted data

[Noah Abrahamson]

On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> Unless the system keeps archive copies of deleted files (Mac OS X  
> does not), recovery involves pawing through a ream of disk blocks,  
> looking for blocks that might have come from your file.  If the  
> file is heavily modified, there may be multiple copies of each  
> block.  It's not easy.

In my experience, I've had terrific success with Data Rescue II, from  
Prosoft. I've used it to recover freshly deleted files off a PATA  
drives and a flash thumb drive, both HFS Extended. It was  
surprisingly fast and very easy to use.


Noah


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