If anyone can help me recover the file I accidentally "replaced" I would be extremely thankful. it has all the photos of my dog which I no longer have :o(
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.4), lost file recovery
Whew,
It may be possible to recover some erased ones, but you must quit using the Computer immediately, because the OS will think it can write to those freed blocks on the disk.
Either boot this one in Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
And recovering from another Mac, or booting this Mac from another HDD, then using Data Rescue...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
rccharles on file recovery...
"Stellar Phoenix Macintosh - Mac data recovery software, recovers data from damaged, deleted, or corrupted volumes and even from initialized disks."
They have a trial version, so I guess you can see if your data can be recovered...
http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm
FileSalvage is an extremely powerful Macintosh application for exploring and recovering deleted files from a drive or volume. FileSalvage is designed to restore files that have:
* been accidentally deleted.
* become unreadable due to media faults.
* been stored on a drive before it was re-initialized/formatted.
http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id= 1
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11073082#11073082
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
Or professional Data Recovery Services.
BUT, every second you use that Mac the chances will be slimmer.
All would require another HD with plenty of space to recover to.
Hi Tom,
I do have a backup external drive, however I think I got it AFTER I did my boo boo. If I had backed it up before can I just plug it in and see whats on it or will it automatically replace things? As you can tell I'm not very techie and frankly fearful of loosing more files. Any help is greatly appreciated :0)
I assume you don't back up your iMac files to an external hard drive. If you did, it would be easy to retrieve from the backup hard drive. Suggest you start doing this, because sooner or later your hard drive will fail & you'll lose everything. Post back if you need backup suggestions.
Cheers, Tom 😉
I accidentally clicked "replace file" when copying a file with photos that had the same name as another. Is there any way to recover the one that got replaced?
