HELP.....lost my entire companies work from drive

Did you not have a backup of the old machine?

Stop using the old computer immediately, anything you do decreases your chances of getting any data back. You can try a data recovery software like Data Rescue 4 https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescue-mac-data-recovery/ Or you can contract with a professional data recovery service.

You never made ANY backups, AT ALL, all of this time!

You work for a company and never, ever made ANY backups over the time you've used this computer?

No backups on external drives?

No backups to company computers or server computers?

NADA????

Reaally????

You will need to stop using this Mac, go to another computer and start looking online for apps for OS X that do data recovery that you can pay for and download ASAP and/or order a disc from that you can install on that Mac.

The only one I've used is Data Rescue 3 from ProSoft Engineering.

https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescue-mac-data-recovery/

This one works well, but you will recover everything and anything that was on your Mac's hard drive, so be prepared for some serious organistion work afterwards.

There are other data recovery apps, too!

Data Rescue I feel is one of the better data recovery apps.

Do a web search from another computer for the one that looks best to you.

Once you find one, you want go back to that Mac, get online and immediately go to the website and pay for the software, download and install this and use it ASAP to try and recover as much data as possible.

Methinks if you get lucky and can recover all of this data, time to get a real backup strategy in place and be dilligent of doing backups for the future.

Good Luck!

Your description 'I saw my mac by name on the new machine and the client folder there' suggests to me that what you saw was the filesystem of your old machine that had been mounted on your new one to facilitate the migration process.

Am I correct to assume that you saw the Client folder in this and by 'deleted it' you mean dragged it to the Trash on your new machine?

Did you get a warning that the files would be deleted immediately or not? Something like this:

If not, did you subsequently empty the Trash or not?

(I'm asking this just in case your missing files are sitting in a Trash folder somewhere.)

C.

You are past the 250 GB limit of data that you need to recover and what you Mac reports may not be all of the data you lost.

The data recovery is going to recover hopefully everything and anything and nothing will be organised any longer, either

To be sure, are going to have to shell out the cash for the DR standard version at $99.]

That has a license that will recover unlimited data on five hard drives.

That is the one you are going to have to purchase.

That's the cost for not having any previous backups.

That's a steal of a price, compared to data recovery services, f all your data gets recovered from running this software, yourself.

Good Luck to you.

Don't do anything until you have calmed down.

Users who are stressed because they think they have lost files often panic and do stupid things that bang the last couple of nails into the coffin.

If you can get your files back for £100 pay it and think of it as a cheap lesson. I saw one bill for nearly £5K for partial recovery of a failed disk drive.

All disks fail eventually. It's not a question of 'whether', just 'when'.

C.

Good query!

Never thought to ask about this!

Good catch.

Maybe the OP will luck out and still has the data on the Mac.

Thank YOU for the assist!!!

I am kinda in a panic about this, myself!

😉

Sometimes we assume that the OS X signature is incorrect since most times, users upgrade OS X versions and do not post the correct OS X version they are running in their signature.

We all assumed that you maybe running a later OS X version.

The software didi post OS X 10.7.5 as a minimum OS X for the current version.

They had a version that used to work with OS X 10.6.8.

If Prosoft has contact info either email or call them and tell them what you did and what you purchased and ask them if they have an older version that you can download that still works with Snow Leopard and not have to pay again.

Main Office: 877-477-6763

Have you answered cdhw's question about whether you did what he describes as you might still have your data?

any progress?

The recovery software will stop scanning the drive once it reaches 250 GBs.

If you are back using the old Mac, the longer you use it the more chances data is going to be written over.

Applications can write temp files/data to both RAM and to the internal hard drive.

If you hear hard drive still making noise while you are using an application, it is writing temp files and scratch files to the Mac's internal drive.

FYI.

If you can use the new Mac, that woukd be better.

To use that software you purchased, in case Prosoft doesn't get back to you, without knowing what Mac model you have, you could go out and purchase another new external hard drive, use the new Mac to install a newer version of OS X onto this new external hard drive

We would need to know your specs of the old Mac ti determine what external hard drive you need and what newer OS X version the old Mac will support beyond OS X 10.6.8.

By installing a newer version of OS X onto the right external hard drive, you can boot that new drive from your old Mac install the Prosoft data recovery software on this new external drive and run the software and your Mac from the external hard drive to do the data recovery.

You should purchase another external hard drive, anyways to have more than one backup/storage source.

If you have an iMac that is old enough to still be running OS X 10.6.8, it, probably, has a FireWire 800 port (2011 iMacs had both a Thunderbolt port AND a FW800 port for backward compatibilty).

While you can use a USB drive, not all Mac could boot from a USB drive, If you can go to a electronics store or if you have an Apple Store to go to,

You would need to find an external FireWire hatd drive ( preferably one with FW800 connections) and or a Thunderbolt hatd drive that uses the Thunderbolt connections and you would need to purchase a Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter, also, to use this drive with either Mac.

If your old Mac is capable of running the latest OS X version, you can hook this new drive up to your new Mac, and install El Cap right to the new external hard drive, hook this up to the old mac using the thunderbolt to FW adapter and boot up your old Mac from the new external hard drive.

Install the data recovery software that you purchased to the new hard drive and run the software from the new drive to scan and recover data from your old Mac's internal hard drive.

If you don't hear from Prosoft, go out (tonight, if possible) and purchase a USB hard drive that has it own power supply that needs to be plugged into a power outlet to run.

DO NOT purchase a portable laptop style drive that only gets its power from a USB connection.

Again, purchase an external USB hard drive that has an independent power supply.

If we have to, we are going to install a newer version of OS X that you can boot your old Mac from to run it from an external hard drive to run the OS and the data recovery software you ended up purchasing, from a new external USB drive.

Your old Mac won't run fast from a USB drive, but USB drives are cheaper and easier to obtain from local electronics stores.

Get a USB drive storage size larger than 500 GBs.

A 1 TB drive will do fine if you don't want to spend too much on another backup drive, right now.

I also need to know the specs of your older Mac to determine what other, newer OS X version, if any, we can run other than OS X 10.6.8.