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ginjuginger - Jan 17, 2008 - 2:43 pm

on 400MHz Power PC G4, running 10.4.10 need to recover Quark file that was deleted from trash

Go3iverson - Jan 17, 2008 - 8:12 pm

Data Rescue II by Prosoft is a great tool for recovering deleted files. They have a demo that you can use, so you can poke around and see if it is recoverable before you buy the product and restore the data.

http://www.prosofteng.com/

Hope this helps!

Michael
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ginjuginger - Jan 19, 2008 - 9:34 am

Thank you for your idea. I will need to see if my supervisor at work will do this on 1/22. What happened is that I renamed a file with a huge amount of work I had done on it and by doing so (incorrectly) it generated Quark error messages. When I asked my supervisor for help he deleted the older unnamed file to the trash as well as the copy of it that was on our server and then emptied the trash. When he opened the newer "named" file it was empty. We are a small Mac graphics group in a large PC agency. So apparently our "graphics" server was not backed up properly by the agency IT people because of technical difficulties.

Go3iverson - Jan 19, 2008 - 11:14 am

Ouch! The last part of that is the real problem. Someone at your company needs to be made aware that their data is not secure and that an accident like this or a hardware failure may cause the company unthinkable amounts of data loss (along with all the lost productivity hours).

Just remember, the longer that the file isn't restored for, the less amount of data may be recoverable. If those blocks of memory are overwritten on the hard drive, there may be nothing left to be had.

Good luck and let me know if you need any suggestions on a backup solution!

Michael
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District13 Computing