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Alan

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Sep 2, 2007, 10:43:26 PM9/2/07
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Does anyone know of any free software to recover deleted files?
This is on an Apple iBook G4 laptop.

Thanks

Shawn Hirn

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Sep 3, 2007, 8:11:10 AM9/3/07
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In article <1188787406....@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>,
Alan <jalan...@verizon.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know of any free software to recover deleted files?
> This is on an Apple iBook G4 laptop.

The only software I know of for that is called Data Rescue by Prosoft
Engineering and it is not free; it costs around $100. If you intend to
attempt recovery of your files, do not use your iBook and do not install
any software on it; run it of a CD because you might overwrite the area
that holds the deleted data on the disk. You can find Data Rescue easily
enough by googling for it.

HddRecovery

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Sep 4, 2007, 12:26:53 AM9/4/07
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Not aware of free ware but you can try Stellar Phoenix Windows Data
Recovery Software a file and partition recovery utility which recovers
data lost accidental format, file/directory deletion or software
malfunction.
The software will cost you $99 but before purchasing you can try out
demo first by downloading it from : http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
Demo shows the recovered data, if you can see it through demo then can
get the full version to save the data.


Andreas Rutishauser

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Sep 4, 2007, 12:46:14 AM9/4/07
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Hello Hddrecovery

In article <1188880013.1...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
HddRecovery <brainmar...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the demo of this software won't help at all on a Mac:

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software for FAT & NTFS

Cheers
Andreas

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HddRecovery

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Sep 5, 2007, 1:10:32 AM9/5/07
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Hey i am really sorry about that I didn't noticed that it was a MAC
system.
For mac you can try Stellar Phoenix Macintosh - Mac data recovery
software, recovers data from damaged, deleted, or corrupted volumes
and even from initialized disks.
You can download the demo from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm

nospam

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Sep 5, 2007, 3:58:12 AM9/5/07
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In article <1188969032.9...@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
HddRecovery <brainmar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey i am really sorry about that I didn't noticed that it was a MAC
> system.

of course not. you are just another asshole spammer.

you may have a mac version (and it is "Mac" not "MAC"), but you neglect
to explain why your product is any better than the other products that
are available with well known reputations of actually working. not
only is it not an universal binary, but the real kicker is that it
looks like the developer reviewed his own software at versiontracker.
not cool.

and for some perverse reason, i tried the demo, and i must say, this
really is a piece of crap. the preferences menu option doesn't do
anything at all and the main window filled the screen despite the list
area being much smaller. the graphics are non-standard, very non-mac
looking, they redraw with every mouse click and they're ugly.

i ran it on my hard drive and it said no data found, which is rather
amusing because it is a fully functioning hard drive. if it can't find
files on a drive that actually works, how can it recover anything from
one that doesn't work? this matches the comment at versiontracker too.
and to top it off, it is significantly more expensive than exisiting
mac recovery software that is known to work well.

in short, it is garbage. absolute garbage.

Tom Harrington

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Sep 5, 2007, 10:49:39 AM9/5/07
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> Hey i am really sorry about that I didn't noticed that it was a MAC
> system.

What newsgroup do you think you're reading, anyway?

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sanny....@gmail.com

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Apr 2, 2013, 3:40:27 AM4/2/13
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Actually, there are a number of free software programs available to recover deleted files on mac system, but you must know that freeware programs will not help you in the complete data recovery process and will even insert certain kind of malwares on your pc during installation. So, its better to spend few pennies and go for complete as well as safe recovery of lost data from mac hard drive. Such softwares are easily available online.

To get additional info regarding this:
http://www.mactrashrecovery.net/howto-recover-trasheddata-onmacosx.php
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