Hello
I deleted a file .pages unintentionally. If it were on a PC, the file were in the temporary files folder. Is there any chance of recovering a file .pages already deleted? Is there any temporary files folder of .pages?
Many thanks
PS: It's a very important file for me, if any one can help me I appreciate
iWork '09
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), A friend asked me to ask...
I suppose you looked in Trash and haven't emptied it?
Are you using Time Machine, or iCloud, that would have a copy there.
Peter
I'm afraid the trash has been emptied, and icloud is not beign used. (this is a friend of mine problem - I doubt he has time machine set up, he is kinda new to macs and didn't configure everything as he should...we searched application support folders in the library to no sucess...can there be any other location for temp files? or can this file be recovered from trash?
I don't know how he got this to happen, but he's really in stress with this situation it was a very important document...
thanks anyway,
Paulo
Unfortunately trashing trashes.
Even if he was able to use a data recovery tool, unless he had done absolutely nothing since losing the file, chances are the sectors in which the document resided will have been overwritten with other data, and like the physical universe 2 objects can not co-exist in the same space.
Understand the process. Files have an address like a house has an address. Initially when you delete, only the address to the house is marked in the computer as no longer being occupied. The house stays there until something else wants to use that space then the house is demolished and another structure put in its place.
I have been in the same position and in my experience you can vainly chase your document/s, taking an enormous amount of time doing so, maybe even finding bits of it but in such an unusable form that you just get on with life and try to prepare against the same thing happening in the future.
Data recovery services with their enormous prices and sophisticated tools don't guarrantee any better results.
Peter
Wasn't it on a Mac? PC's use th Windows system.
t'was on a mac... My friend Mário (who has the problem) wrote the text, even though he did the mistake in not backing it up - He argues that IF it was on a PC, M Word would have some kind of Temp folder (autosaves)
You should always save often. I am not using the Mountain Lion system but I know you have to save at least once for the inbuilt AutoSave to kick in.
So how many documents does he have called "Untitled" on his PC? And how does he tell them apart or stop them overwriting each other?
Peter
Here is a program that claims to rescue documents, won't be the first, and it all depends on how your friend saved or didn't save or overwrote etc the document.
http://maclegion.com/software.htm?app=mac_data_recovery
Maybe this will actually do what it claims,
Peter
.pages deleted unintentionally - temp files might exist - need location
