Able to recover or backup lost work?
I wasn't able to save my work before my comp. shut down on me? Any way at aLL that I can recover this at all?
Thanks
the filesize will tell you if any of the audio files still exist. the midi bits are lost for good.
if the file is big (more then a few MBs), control-click the file and select "Show COntents", then open the Media folder. you can drop any stored audio files into a new project
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Over the last few wks, i have lost several important file. Even the support team has not been able to recover them. Pls offer advice. I use microsoft office on my macbook pro, which is less than a year old.
pklfromarlington wrote:
Bob, Hate to steal your thunder but am hooked to an external hard drive using Time Machine and er information is where it shoudl be. Yes, I have combed the files, used Finder and any other tools I know.
You did not steal my thunder. You asked for advice, I provided advice. I assumed that since you nor the "support team" could find your files that you did not have any backup. You should have told us you do regular backups. We have no way to know otherwise unless you tell us. -
Help, Is there anyway to "unsave" slides....Need to recover lost work.
HELP! Is there anyway to "unsave". I accidently hit save on the wrong keynote file I had open and it overwrote all the slides I had done up to that point. A ton of lost work.
Is there anyway to recover those slides. I'm new to Mac.
Thank you!!As long as the file is still open, you should be able to "undo" past the save point. Once you've saved the file and reopened, though, that information is no longer available in memory.
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Is it possible to recover my data from iCloud backup without working wifi? I have as many other upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 7.0.2 with the result that the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth no longer works. However, i can connect to iTunes via cable but there is wrong version of backup.
Answer is no.
If you want the iCloud backup you have to have n internet connection, thus WiFi.
The not working WiFi has happened with quite a number of users.
It is not exactly clear what is the cause but there are suggestions to clear it up:
Some people have had success by removing an apostrophe from the iPhone name. If your iPhone is called something like “John’s iPhone” then this might work. Go to Settings > General > About > Name and change it to something with no apostrophe.
Some people have reported success by putting the iPhone into Airplane mode and then going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings, but the problem may return.
You could also try going to Settings > Control Center and disable Access on Lock Screen then turn your iPhone off and on again.
Make sure that your router firmware is up to date.
Try backing up your iPhone and then restoring it. Check how to factory reset an iPhone for details.
If nothing is working for you, try contacting Apple or take your iPhone into an Apple Store.
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A colleague and I have been working on a large project, 100 GB worth.We started on my MBP and saved it to an external Lacie HD.Then she carried on using her MB.
After trimming it down and cropping out the unwanted stuff we added transitions and themes but imovie starting acting a bit unstable. Yesterday when she opened it, it was completely blank! After almost having a fit we found everything in the trash and put it back in the timeline but it's all out of order and all the transitions, themes and cropping we did are all gone (It wasn't because it was closed without saving beforehand, by the way).
That was many days work!
Is there any way we can find all the transitions, themses etc and have them back in the right place or are we doomed to start all over again? Also, what are the most likely reasons for this kind of thing happening?Yes. You should be able to recover whatever you had done up to your last save. iMovie saves these prior 'saves' in the project files, but if you have saved your newest work after dragging things from the trash, you will not be able to recover the older project information because iMovie's later save overwrites it.
As per Karl Petersen, here is the way to do it:
+There's a QuickTime movie inside the project that may still be able to play your project. In iMovie HD it's inside the Cache folder of the project package, and it's called "Timeline Movie.mov". (To open the iMovie HD package, Control-click on the project icon and choose Show Package Contents.)+
+If the movie plays okay, the movie can be imported to a NEW iMovie project to rescue your work. Everything will arrive as a single clip, but everything will be there and play in the proper order.+
+It's crucial you NOT save the messed-up project right now, for that will destroy the good QuickTime movie, replacing it with a bad "empty" movie.+
As far as why it occurred, it is hard to know. Maybe the preference files got corrupted, maybe some clips did. Also, when it was on the external drive was iMovie playing and working ok? The external drive needs to be Mac-formatted for iMovie to work properly. If you recover the movie and SAVE it to a new iMovie project, you should close it, and delete iMovie's preference file: YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist. Drag this plist file to the trash. When you open iMovie again, a new one will be created.
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Is it possible to recover ical data lost in a sync?
Is it possible to recover ical data lost in a sync?
Your only bet is to resotre from the Time Machine backup. However when you do this the sync process will promptly delete the calendars again, so you need to work through the slightly convoluted method detailed in this page:
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WS2012 R2 Recovery from Windows Backup Not Working
Hi,
I tried to perform a bare metal recovery of a Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system backup but I can't get it to recover or access earlier restore points. Any help would be appreciated! I want to avoid reinstalling the OS *again*.
I have a hardware install of Windows Server 2012 R2 on drive (a), backup services saved to drive (b), and my server folders on RAID pool (c). I had verified that Windows Server Backup was executing daily and I was previously able to see several backups
in the list of restore points.
I first tried to use the Windows Recovery Wizard to restore a "Volumes" recovery on drive (a); however, I can't select the "Source Volume" (C:) to equal the "Desination Volume" (C:). I just want to replace the current drive
(a) with what's backed up. Why is this? Should this be working with source equal to destination?
Then, when restoring Windows using startup disk & recovery options, I can't see more than the last backup. Older restore points are not available. Plus, my local administrator password is not being accepted. So many things are going wrong...
The last thing I did was enable the Windows Server Essentials role and set it up, which did include picking a domain name. I wasn't happy with the ".local" TLD that was automatically created so I wanted to restore before Essentials was set up.
Is this what is preventing a recovery?
Thanks!
SteveHi Steve,
For performing a restore, please make sure you boot with an installation disk and restore to correct target volume - here is an article with pictures incase there is any difference on your side:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/06/11/how-to-perform-a-bare-metal-restore-on-small-business-server-2008.aspx
Note: Steps are for Windows SBS 2008 but it is the same as using a Windows 2012 R2 installation disk to do a recovery.
Meanwhile from the description, it is a file server before installing Windows Server Essentials role. So it is a domain controller now.
Then it should also work by uninstall Windows Server Essentials role:
It may not able to be uninstalled at once but it will suggest to uninstall some roles (which it installed in order to convert to Essential server and a DC) first. If all suggested roles could be uninstalled, you can also uninstall Windows Server Essentials
role so that it will back from DC to file server - you can reinstall it later.
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I was updating my iphone 4 on computer on itunes. After 45 mins or so, I got message that software was updated. But my iphone needed to be restored as it is in recovery mode. it staes that all data will be deleted!! Will I be able to recover data, apps, photos, etc? My phone will not even allow me to use it....it just has picture of itunes with connector on screen. HELP!
If your phone is in recovery mode, you've already lost ALL of the data on the phone. Your only choice now is to restore it from your most recent backup. You follow this by syncing your content back to your phone. Any data, on your phone, not backed up or in supported applications on your computer, is gone. iTunes content you can re-download for free.
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Hello,
I have been unable to locate information regarding how the EDB handles deleted files. I am able to recover deleted emails from the EDB; however, there are numerous emails that I know have been deleted, that were not recovered during the recovery process.
Is this because the EDB dumps deleted emails once it reaches a certain amount of entries? Or is it more likely the deleted items are corrupted and thus not recoverable? Thank you for your time and I look forward to your responses. The
product in question is Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.Great information from the other posters and one other possible explanation is if the users did a HARD DELETE. More information on this below
Pre-Exchange 2010 Dumpster 1.0 worked as follows;
1. When a user does a normal delete of an item via Outlook or OWA it gets sent to your deleted items folder
2. If the user then empties deleted items folder those items are then marked with the ptagDeletedOnFlag attribute which in essence hides them from the view of the user
3. At this point the user can use the Recover Deleted Items function in Outlook to recover those items as long as the items were NOT purged using the Recover Deleted Items option OR the items have not passed still the deleted item retention period.
NOTE: Every day there is a nightly maintenance process that in short looks through the DB and examines items that have been deleted. Items that have met or exceeded the deleted item retention period are purged from the system and are
completely non-recoverable. More about this at the end of my post.
4. However if the end user were to delete an item from the Inbox or another folder in Outlook by using Shift + Delete aka a Hard Deletion the item is left in its orignal location and gets marked with the ptagDeletedOnFlag attribute which again just
hides it from view.
5. By default you can only use the Recover Deleted Items option on the Delted Items folder. Howeve you can make it so that you can recover hard Deleted items from other folders. More on that here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246153
5. The problem with this method though IMO is that you have to know where to look and that can be rather time consuming.
6. If you want a more elegant method to resolve this and are open to using 3rd party utilities check out Lucid8's DigiScope.
http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp which will allow you to open any offline copy of the DB from a forensic point of view and to solve your specific issue you can either turn on a filter to ONLY
show hard deleted items OR you can search the entire store and all mailboxes for just deleted items and can then view or export them to PST or MSG format. You can download the product and obtain a 30 day demo license which will allow you to find any
hard deleted items, however to view them or export your would need to purchase a license.
NOTE: When a database is backed up or copied it is an "Offline" database and then its offline the data retention period is not an issue because the nightly online maintenance process can only act on a database that is mounted on an
Exchange server. So for this reason if you want to recover the most data possible use offline copies/backups of the DB with a 3rd party utility like DigiScope
NOTE 2: Exchange 2010 and 2013 use Dumpster 2.0 which is an entirely different beast and I will not go into that in this post since its nearly 1AM however DigiScope can expose that information as well
Search, Recover, & Extract Mailboxes, Folders, & Email Items from Offline Exchange Mailbox and Public Folder EDB's and Live Exchange Servers or Import/Migrate direct from Offline EDB to Any Production Exchange Server, even cross version i.e. 2003
--> 2007 --> 2010 --> 2013 with Lucid8's
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How do I recover quicken 2007files lost in conversion to osx v 10.7lion
How do I recover quicken 2007files lost in conversion to Lion
If you mean to recover the Q2007 files themselves, I would suggest restoring them from the backup you took befoe you upgraded to Lion.
Although they will do you little or no good because nothing but Quicken can read them.
The suggest migration path is to export the data from Quicken prior to the upgrade to Lion.
Then you can import the export Quicken data to another financail application that works under Lion.
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How can I get the 23 July update to load onto my iPad. I haven't been able to access my documents or work for weeks and need to use it. Has anyone else had similar problems?
Hello Arthur,
Thank you for the reply.
You were correct that deleting the app and reinstalling it was the only thing to make it work but unfortunately I lost all the documents I made, even though they were backed up to iCloud before i deleted the app. At the same time as deleting pages I had to delete keynote and numbers too, so I've lost all the documents in them too.
The mb of data which was assigned to each programme in iCloud has reduced, so. I guess they are gone for good. Is there any other way to reaccess them?
Not your fault but I am a bit fed up the the iPad. I have lost work that I've done and have no other copy apart from what was in iCloud, as I don't have a printer and couldn't email them too myself as I couldn't get into the programme and i've also got episodes of tv series I purchased that I can't download and albums that are half downloaded with songs missing, so I feel a bit swindled out of time and money and am going back to DVD , pen and paper and CDs .
Instead of using iCloud I guess the only way to make sure I don't loose any more documents it to email them to myself each time I save them on the iPad. Is there anything else you could suggest please?
I don't have any other apple products apart from iPods, so I can't access the iCloud on anything else can I?
Thanks
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i recently buyed totally unlocked sprint iphone which was legally contract free and i am using that phone in india but i am not able to send sms .everything is working fine except sending sms. i have tried everything plz help me !! i have tried everything i.e. reset iphone /hard reset/network setting reset /sms service no i have also changed but i am still not able to send sms.. please help me as i am really worried .. thank you !!
I had the same problem. Kept getting message of waiting for activation or check network connections. I also tried every solution out there and nothing worked. This did though: I download the newest version of itunes (through Internet Explorer - Google Chrome wouldn't work). It pulled in my entire library thank goodness and then I plugged my iphone 4s into the computer. I let itunes find it, did a complete backup in icloud, then did a restore. Entire process took a couple of hours, but I now have imessage and facetime back. I was about ready to give up on Apple and go get a different phone ~
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I have an iPhone 4s iOs 5.1.1,( I know I need an update!) I want to update it to iOs 7, if I've backed up to iCloud will my contacts, pictures and text messages be saved and able to be restored if lost? I recently backed up to the iCloud as recently as this morning at 2AM.
OCD with good reason
With a second backup, as you now have, you are well protected. The update makes a backup to use for restoring after the install but with another you should be in great shape.
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Monthly and Yearly backups not working for Protection Group?
Hi
We have a Protection Group with 160 members currently attached to it. The group has the following customized Recovery Points:-
- 1 recovery point every 1 day for the last 2 weeks, 1 recovery point every 1 month for the last 60 months and 1 recovery point every year for the last 5 years.
The schedule is as follows:-
- Every Day at 01:00, Every Month on First Day at 01:00 and Every 12 Months on 01 January at 01:00.
The daily tape backups are working fine without issue but neither the Monthly or Yearly backups are being attempted. We have checked the monthly backups for this issue for the last few months and are unable to see any evidence of the Monthly schedule even
running? This means that we are having to manually label the Daily tapes once a month as Monthly tapes but they will then stay on the Reports for the next 5 years as DPM will constantly request these tapes back.
Are you able to help with this matter?
Not that we really want to do this but if we removed the group completely and re-create it would this cause problems with our restore points?Hi,
This is a known issue that can occur in all current versions of
DPM including DPM 2012, to correct the condition, you simply need to perform this step. Any time before the next scheduled (monthly or longer) backup, manually update
the long term backup schedule by hitting the MODIFY button. The code that runs when modifying the backup schedule redoes the bacup schedules and it fixes the scheduling issue.
Below is a DPM Power-shell script that will show you the scheduled backups for all recovery goals for all protection groups. You can see the last time each recovery goal ran, and the NEXT run time, so you can monitor
the goals and re-fix them if necessary.
NOTE: It takes about 20-30 minutes before the fixed next run time schedule will be populated after modify the protection group and updating the schedule.
# This script will list all currently scheduled backup to tape jobs #
# It will list scheduled, last run and next run dates #
# Note: The script takes in consideration that the DPM Database was installed locally on its #
# Default instance. If SQL is installed on a different location/instance, edit the line #
# that starts with $instance = '.\msdpm2010 #
# Author : Wilson Souza #
# Date Created : 1/13/2012 #
# Last modified : 1/17/2012 #
# Version : 1.0 #
# This version of the script was only tested on DPM 2010 #
param([string] $verbose)
add-pssnapin sqlservercmdletsnapin100
Add-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.DataProtectionManager.PowerShell
$ConfirmPreference = 'None'
cls
$instance = '.\msdpm2010' # <---- If DPM Database is on a different location, edit this line accordinly
$query = "use DPMDB
go
CREATE FUNCTION label (@GUID varchar(36), @kindred varchar(4), @vault varchar(8))
returns varchar (1024)
as
Begin
declare @result varchar (1024)
select @result = vaUltlabel from tbl_mm_vaultlabel where mediapoolid = @GUID and generation =
case @kindred
when 'Fath' Then '2'
when 'Gran' then '1'
when 'grea' Then '0'
end and
vault =
case @vault
when 'Offsite1' then '3'
when 'Offsite2' then '4'
when 'Offsite3' then '5'
when 'Offsite4' then '6'
when 'Offsite5' then '7'
when 'Offsite6' then '8'
when 'Offsite7' then '9'
else
'1'
end
RETURN @result
END
go
use DPMDB
select ScheduleId as name
,def.JobDefinitionId as JD
,FriendlyName as PG
,SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),active_start_date),5,2) + '-' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),active_start_date),7,2) + '-' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),active_start_date),1,4) as SD
,jobs.date_created as SCD
,SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),last_run_date),5,2) + '-' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),last_run_date),7,2) + '-' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),last_run_date),1,4) + ' ' +
SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(6),last_run_time),1,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(6),last_run_time),3,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(6),last_run_time),5,2) as LRD
,SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),next_run_date),5,2) + '-' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),next_run_date),7,2) + '-' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),next_run_date),1,4) + ' ' +
SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(6),next_run_time),1,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(6),next_run_time),3,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING (CONVERT(VARCHAR(6),next_run_time),5,2) as NRD
,dbo.label ((substring(xml,(patindex('%MediaPoolId%',Xml))+13,36)), (substring(xml,(patindex('%generation%',Xml))+12,4)), (substring(xml,(patindex('%vault%',Xml))+7,8))) as TL
,case
when substring(xml,(patindex('%vault%',Xml))+7,3) = 'off' then 'Long-Term'
else 'Short-term'
end as STLT
,case
when substring(xml,(patindex('%generation%',Xml))+12,4) = 'Fath' then 'Recovery Goal 1'
when substring(xml,(patindex('%generation%',Xml))+12,4) = 'Gran' then 'Recovery Goal 2'
when substring(xml,(patindex('%generation%',Xml))+12,4) = 'Grea' then 'Recovery Goal 3'
end as RG
from tbl_SCH_ScheduleDefinition sch
,msdb.dbo.sysjobs jobs
,tbl_JM_JobDefinition def
,DPMDB.dbo.tbl_IM_ProtectedGroup prot
,msdb.dbo.sysjobschedules jobsch
,msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps jobsteps
,msdb.dbo.sysschedules syssch
where CAST(sch.ScheduleId as NCHAR (128)) = jobs.name
and def.JobDefinitionId = sch.JobDefinitionId
and def.ProtectedGroupId = prot.ProtectedGroupId
and jobs.job_id = jobsch.job_id
and jobs.job_id = jobsteps.job_id
and jobsch.schedule_id = syssch.schedule_id
and (def.Type = '913afd2d-ed74-47bd-b7ea-d42055e5c2f1' or def.Type = 'B5A3D25C-8EB2-4032-9428-C852DA5CE2C5')
and sch.IsDeleted = '0' and def.ProtectedGroupId is not null
order by FriendlyName, next_run_date, next_run_time
go
drop function label
go"
$result = Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstance $instance -Query $query
$count = 1
write-host " The list below shows all scheduled backup to tape jobs (short term and long term)" -f green
write-host
if ($verbose.ToLower() -eq '')
write-host " For optimun output, set PoweShell Width for screen buffer size to at least 200" -f yellow; write-host
write-host
write-host " Protection Group name Creation Date [Schedule Creation Date] [Last Run Date / time] [Next Sched Run Date/time] Goal type Recovery Goal # Custom Tape Label"
write-host " ------------------------------ ------------- ------------------------ ---------------------- -------------------------- ---------- --------------- -----------------"
foreach ($result1 in $result)
if ($color -eq 'white') {$color = 'cyan'} else {$color = 'white'}
write-host ("{0,2}"-f $count) -foreground green -nonewline
write-host ( " - {0,-30} {1,-13} {2,-24} {3,-24} {4,-27} {5,-10} {6,15} " -f $result1.PG, $result1.SD, $result1.SCD, $result1.LRD, $result1.NRD, $result1.STLT, $result1.RG) -nonewline -f $color
write-host $result1.TL -f yellow
$count++
else
write-host " For optimun output, set PoweShell Width for screen buffer size to at least 110" -f yellow; write-host
write-host " Protection Group Term Goal Tape Label"
write-host " ------------------------------ ---------- --------------- --------------"
foreach ($result1 in $result)
if ($color -eq 'white') {$color = 'cyan'} else {$color = 'white'}
write-host ("{0,2}"-f $count) -foreground green -nonewline
write-host ( " - {0,-30} {1,-10} {2,15} " -f $result1.PG, $result1.STLT, $result1.RG) -nonewline -f $color
write-host $result1.TL -f yellow
$count++
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Regards, Mike J. [MSFT] This
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I cant seem to get this script to run.. can someone point out what might be missing..
I've tried creating a shortcut like the following as well:
Target: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noexit -File "C:\Program Files\Microsoft
DPM\DPM\bin\dpmcliinitscript.ps1" "C:\Data\scripts\scheduledjobs.ps1"
Start in: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\bin\"
If i run as admin in just takes you to a command line prompt in PS..
Any thoughts on what is missing here.. i've modified the ps1 to reflect 2012 in my case.. 2012 R2
DPM
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Ok, the 1.6 script works.. but only if i run it from the ps1 script file.. by right clicking it and doing the Run with Powershell option (non admin).. my shortcut doesnt work.. same issue.. it just goes to a power shell prompt. The right click and
run is non admin mode as well.
When I run it with the right click it shows no jobs scheduled.. If i look in dpm 2012 r2 i see a yearly tape backup scheduled for today.. the script doesnt show me a way to also get the monthly to appear (i've set the monthly for a day later but it doesnt
appear in the scheduled tasks for next 7 days).. i was under the impression this script would help force the monthly to appear/run.. but even the yearly that does show in DPM scheduled tasks isnt showing up with the script (maybe admin issue?)
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Password to unlock backup doesnt work - changed passwords and still not accepting - suggestions?
Password to unlock iphone backup doesnt work, tried new password and still nothing, any suggestions/help?
If you don't know the password for your encrypted backup, it can no longer be used. The whole point of encryption is lost if the password can be circumvented.
Your only choice now is to disable backup encryption and create a new backup. If you need to encrypt the new backup - re-enable encryption and DO NOT LOSE THE PASSWORD.
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