recovering files from guest account

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recovering files from guest account

Is there any way that files stored in the documents folder on a guest account can be recovered?!? Having logged out of the guest account, we lost our vacation pictures. Any chance to retrieve them? Please, help....

Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 2, 2008 2:06 PM

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Answer 1

joshz

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Sep 2, 2008 2:18 PM in response to mirjam789

Welcome to Discussions!

Stop using the mac immediately to reduce the chance of the files being overwritten, and look into a program like File Salvage or Data Rescue.

Good luck!

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V.K.

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Sep 2, 2008 2:15 PM in response to mirjam789

no. the ONLY chance (which is not guaranteed to work) is to use data recovery software like [Data Rescue II|http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php] or [FileSalvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1]. if you use them, do it ASAP before that data gets overwritten.

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mirjam789 Author

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Sep 4, 2008 12:55 PM in response to joshz

Thanks for your advise! I managed to recover a few photographs - but, unfortunately, most of the files are corrupted.

Mirjam

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Bobsax

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Sep 26, 2008 11:28 AM in response to mirjam789

I'm confused . I thought the reason for a guest account is to delete everything when you log out.
I use it to try out software demos before I put them on my main account.

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