Recovered deleted file identificaton
In 2008 I kept a journal on an old I-Mac in Word for Mac. Without realizing it the file was either deleted or saved over on or around Feb 25, 2009. I just took the computer into a data recovery service who put all the recovered files on a disk.
I am looking for a deleted Mac MS Word Document, containing around 60-120 pages.
The disk has probably over 5000+ files on it and I have no idea what I am looking for, as the file has most likely be renamed or is in segments. The disk has been divided into 3 folders titled:
1. Items of interest
2. Orphans Folder
3. Reconstructed files
1) Items of interest contains 2 files with the correct name, but both files are blank documents.
2) Orphans Folder contains 108 Folders.
These folders contain
- Cache files (thousands of various sizes from very small to very large)
- sqlite files (hundreds of these)
- Iproj files
- ATS files
- plist files
- rsrc files
- java files
- attr files
- bookmark files
- swf files
- jpg files
- gif files
3) Reconstructed Files
There are 17 reconstructed MS Word files listed but are the document I am looking for.
Can anyone help me narrow down my search? If I found the file would it be readable or would I need some kind of application to decode it?
I also considered doing a search of relevant words but cannot get the finder to search through the CD. How can I do that? The finder will only let me search through files on the mac, even though the disk appears under devices in the finder.
Any help would be very much appreciated!!! Thanks!