Members bluesboy Posted January 15, 2010 Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 I accidentally deleted 10 hours worth of work by copying a folder of the same name into a place where a folder of this name already existed on my mac. Being relatively new to macs, i thought it would work the way it does on windows, where it replaces the repeated files and adds the new ones. WRONG! im running data recovery software as we speak, keep your fingers crossed! in any case ill never make that mistake again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wok Posted January 15, 2010 Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 Use Time Machine to backup to an external drive. As long as you have space left it will make regular backups of your system. If you make a mistake, just revert to the most recent backup...et voila! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members bluesboy Posted January 15, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 well, the recovery program didnt recover what i was looking for. It was interesting though... somehow, there's quite a few JPEG files that were recovered of websites that i've gone to. It's like a screenshot of various websites i've gone to. Some of them were "naughty" (lol). anyway to permanently delete these, or prevent more of them from being created? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LaXu Posted January 15, 2010 Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 When deleting a file, you don't really remove it from the hard drive but you simply delete the reference to the file and mark that space as overwritable. That's why if you do nothing you may be able to get back old files with recovery software. If the space is already overwritten you're {censored} out of luck. I got to say that the lack of folder merge is truly idiotic in OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JKD Posted January 15, 2010 Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 I actually never even noticed it/fell afoul of it until a windows fanboi friend of me pointed it out....luckily I always paid attention when Finder was telling me it wanted to overwrite something. It's the one thing that bugs most windows users when using teh finder...mojo sent for lost files bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesboy Posted January 15, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 the good news is, the second time around of making my files is going much quicker... also im setting up time machine tonight. PS, any idea why random JPEGS of websites are being created and stored "in limbo" on my hardrive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JKD Posted January 15, 2010 Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 the good news is, the second time around of making my files is going much quicker... also im setting up time machine tonight. PS, any idea why random JPEGS of websites are being created and stored "in limbo" on my hardrive? It's Safari's/web browsers cache...as someone pointed out, the data recovery software can still find the files physically written on the disk even though the operating systems has erased the pointers to them in the file system index and they haven't been over-written by new files yet. I think Safari actually supports private browsing if you want all that pesky tranny porn to be actually erased after you've finished browsing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesboy Posted January 15, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2010 I think Safari actually supports private browsing if you want all that pesky tranny porn to be actually erased after you've finished browsing haha, nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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