Oh bloody hell - data recovery programme for Mac wanted ASAP

[LeeDevelopment]

Some of my subtitled music performance MP4's have disappeared on the Mac, not being recognised by iTunes and I can't find them anywhere. I had duplicate folders created when setting up so one went in the trash - think these files were in there.

Very upset about it as unlike with hearing people buying CD's and what not I'm unable to do that, need the subtitled performances to follow.

Can anyone suggest a good data recovery software package for the Mac please?

Cheers,

Lee.

 

[tintin40]

your in Richmond?? I'll lend you mine

 

[LeeDevelopment]

I'm in Sydenham (couldn't find a decent place in Richmond sadly).... I'm just looking for a programme I can install to find the deleted files?

 

[Tad]

I have a copy of Sandisk Rescue Pro if that's any use? You used to get it free with the high end Sandisk memory cards, not sure if you still do.

It's a couple of years old says it's OK for Windows or OS x v10.1.2+

PM me your address and I can post it off on Monday if you want to give it a try.

EDIT: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4985

you can download a free trial to see if you can find it

 

[cyfa2809]

i downloaded a program called data doctor recovery before on torrent
it always popped up as a virus but was a fake and worked a treat

was hard to find though

you should try copy trans control (or manager, its something like that, important bit is copy trans )

not sure of mac compatability but this should be THE program you use instead of itunes, its really good, AND it has a recovery program, its free i think too!

 

[LeeDevelopment]

All now sorted via Stellar Phoenix recovery software, phew!

 

[highlandsflyer]

Always good to remember that unless you actually suffer a hard failure you will recover just about everything.

If your backup schedule is frequent.

 

[Neil]

Always good to remember that unless you actually suffer a hard failure you will recover everything.

So long as the sectors haven't been reused.

That said, computer forensics could probably still recover more than you think - which is why secure delete stuff does so many passes.

 

[Sithlord]

why not use the time machine to back up everything , my understanding it backs up music too ?

 

[highlandsflyer]

Always good to remember that unless you actually suffer a hard failure you will recover everything.

So long as the sectors haven't been reused.

That said, computer forensics could probably still recover more than you think - which is why secure delete stuff does so many passes.

Right enough, added a bit to clarify.

It is the nature of the way data is stored on drives that lends itself so well to recovery.

It is very unlikely you will lose large amounts of data to overwriting in a relatively short time. Of course, it helps if you follow the rules about backing up regularly and keeping your disks at least 30% 'empty'.

External drives being so cheap, there is no reason on earth not to hook one up and run incremental backups of all your work/important data as it is created.