Re: Do you use Photoshop or Fireworks?

On 2005-10-05 22:41:42 -0400, MGW <mgw1979@hotmail.com> said:

> That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about - the kind of data
> recovery utilities people use when they've accidentally overwritten a
> file (as was discussed here in the past few weeks). I.e., the kind of
> stuff where you take your hard drive to a data recovery specialist -
> the tools those specialists use aren't available yet.

Er, Yes they are. (and have been for several years)

Tech Tool Pro
DiskWarrior
Phoenix
Data Rescue II
FileSalvage
VirtualLab Data Recovery

I would imagine there is a plethora of UNIX tools available also....

If you need more than that, then you're probably attempting to recover
data from a drive you ran over in a large truck, after attempting to
incinerate it, after leaving it in your swimming pool overnight.

If that;s the case, then, yes, OS X native tools are severely lacking!

However, (and this is purely from *my* experience of supporting a large
team of Macs and their users for the past 10 years, not a
generalisation) 99.9% of users I've come into contact with realise that
once you've manually moved something to the trash, then manually
emptied the trash, you can't just click a button and have them return,
but there's still *plenty* of tools to handle this for you.

The other 0.1% are simply given 'managed' user accounts whereby
emptying the trash requires an administrator. We also make sure these
people have no access to sharp objects.

In article <2005100523153950073%ben@thymeonlinecom>,
Ben Jamieson <ben@thymeonline.com> wrote:

> Er, Yes they are. (and have been for several years)
>
> Tech Tool Pro
> DiskWarrior
> Phoenix
> Data Rescue II
> FileSalvage
> VirtualLab Data Recovery

And '/sbin/fsck -fy' in 'single user mode' and repeat until *****FILE
SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED***** goes away and then reboot. I've never had to do
it on a Mac FS, and it's probably inferior the the above mentioned
programs. But you get to use 'file system check' and appreciate why you
see fsck as a synonym for something else in the groups.

leo

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On 2005-10-05 23:46:42 -0400, Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com> said:

> And '/sbin/fsck -fy' in 'single user mode' and repeat until *****FILE
> SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED***** goes away and then reboot. I've never had to
> do it on a Mac FS, and it's probably inferior the the above mentioned
> programs. But you get to use 'file system check' and appreciate why you
> see fsck as a synonym for something else in the groups.

I've used it once. And no Norton product will ever go near any of my
systems again!