Help!!!

[marbs]

I deleted my school documents from my recycle bin on my apple mac.

How can I get it back?

Thanks

[AppleXY]

So you deleted your documents in Mac OS X.4 permanently from your trash?

[marbs]

So you deleted your documents in Mac OS X.4 permanently from your trash?

Yes, some of the documents I thought I had copies of.

I remember getting them back on windows, but don't know how to get them back on mac

[jess3254]

I may be wrong, but I think you will need third party undelete software to recover your documents.

I'm sure some more tech-savvy people here would be happy to suggest a specific program, but I think there's one called 'Data Rescue' that my brother used when he lost his uni work. I'm pretty sure you could download it off the internet.

[marbs]

thanks I'l give that program a try.

This is not what I want to be doing on my day off  :tickedoff:

[AppleXY]

Unfortunately, due to the nature of UNIX and Mac's File System HFS+ , file-recovery may not be always successful.

However, there are applications to recover data, providing that the data deleted doesn't exceed 1GB.

Try:

http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

http://www.macintosh-data-recovery.com/?gclid=CIiuv9CO55MCFSQdagodclJeWw (hmmm, just searched google, try this in the last resort, don't know how it'll perform.)

[excal]

HFS+ is a pain to recover from; I believe some changes in it in 10.3 made it much harder to recover (it has to do with moving fragments to more frequently used areas of the drive)...so you may be out of luck.

@ AppleXY - the file system used in Mac is quite different to the journalling file systems of Linux (ext2/3).

[enwiabe]

Go into your apple store and ask for help?

[chubz90]

ummm.... i don’t think you should have continued to use you laptop when you realised that you had lost the files- for the simple reasons that you run a high risk of overwriting the data. Especially installing programs to you mac itself did more harm then good. If you could get access to another mac  you could have connected it via firewall plug and used the secondary mac to access your hard drive and scan your hard drive with file recovery software. Because once you delete something it is never really gone until you overwrite it, or other words store more info over it.

Im no expert but when it comes to macs- but it worked when I helped a family friend recover his only copy of his uni thesis- lol, at the time he was about to cry (i suppose i would have to).


It's a Good thing the new mac OS has the whole timeportal thing.

[excal]

Ironically, I just lost 200GB from my partition tables corrupting on a server I run. *is working on recovery...*

[cara.mel]

Ironically, I just lost 200GB from my partition tables corrupting on a server I run. *is working on recovery...*

I think this is the perfect time to start http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,1594.0.html

Just kidding ^^
Did they write properly last night?

[AppleXY]

ummm.... i don’t think you should have continued to use you laptop when you realised that you had lost the files- for the simple reasons that you run a high risk of overwriting the data. Especially installing programs to you mac itself did more harm then good. If you could get access to another mac  you could have connected it via firewall plug and used the secondary mac to access your hard drive and scan your hard drive with file recovery software. Because once you delete something it is never really gone until you overwrite it, or other words store more info over it.

Im no expert but when it comes to macs- but it worked when I helped a family friend recover his only copy of his uni thesis- lol, at the time he was about to cry (i suppose i would have to).


It's a Good thing the new mac OS has the whole timeportal thing.

TIME PORTAL?! WTF. FAIL. EPIC FAIL. PH-AI-L.

It's called Time Machine.

[chubz90]

TIME PORTAL?! WTF. FAIL. EPIC FAIL. PH-AI-L.

It's called Time Machine.

lol- same shit. As i said im no apple expert 

[excal]

Ironically, I just lost 200GB from my partition tables corrupting on a server I run. *is working on recovery...*

I think this is the perfect time to start http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,1594.0.html

Just kidding ^^
Did they write properly last night?

Stop remembering old threadz sweetheart.

It'll be done when it's done...hopefully when I port over to 'nix today.