File Recovery Software

A software bug has apparently erased one of my email folders. I don't use Apple Mail.
Can anyone recommend a good, reliable file recovery program that might be successful in recovering the previous file?
I'm avoiding that partition in hopes of preventing any overwriting of the deleted data.
Thanks.

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If the mail was stored on the server, ask the internet provider for their tape backup. Any messages you didn't open between the time it arrived and was taped will be safe.
If the mail was stored on the server, but was checked before it was taped, the internet provider might be able to do a data recovery on their own machine to see if they can find a trace of it.
If it was stored locally, you need to know the local file name of where it was stored, and recover it to the location that it stored it.
Definitely stored locally. I've become very security conscious, and avoid almost everything cloud related. This year, plan on doing taxes and next years records on an OS many have never seen, and not connected to the internet. So, it's been a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong time since anything identity related has been stolen from me.
This isn't the first time I'm used recovery software, but the first time on a Mac. First experience doing it was on an Atari 800.
What e-mail program did you use? These programs can recover such files, if not too much else has been written to the hard disk since the file was lost:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689
Leaving the machine on lessens the chances it can be recovered locally.
I use Thunderbird, but I seriously consider switching if I could find an equivalent program. That has been a fruitless search.
The attempts at recovery using TB quite possibly overwrote the needed file at the outset. It all depends on how the filesystem selects the vacant sectors to write changes to.
Have you used any of the programs listed in the article?
I've opted to not try to recover the data, and have installed a back up from Time Machine. But, because I was troubleshooting issues copying massive amounts of data between hard drives, I'd turned off Time Machine, so the back up is missing some emails for all accounts. But, I have the accounts set to leave messages on the server, so just have to learn how to get those messages. I'd forgotten I'd done that, so hopefully there will be a way to just get the ones that are missing.

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Is there deleted file recovery software which is cheap or has a limited demo or something?
I accidentally deleted some files, but they're not worth hundreds of dollars to me. I'd just like to get them back if I could.
I downloaded some software which says it can find them, but I have to pay -- so, how do I know it will actually work after I pay?
I'd like to get some samples, like, have it just retrieve ten files or something, just to prove it works!
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Hi John,
As Kurt suggests, Data Rescue is a commercial product that you will have to purchase to retrieve your files if you choose but it at least allows you to test the demo first to see if it can scan and find your files and to test to see if it will retrieve one file of 500k in size.
Dr. Smoke, of the X-Lab, has an excellent FAQ explaining data recovery that can be found here.
One major point, if you're not aware, is that you should not use the affected drive until you recover the files as the more you use the computer the more chance that the files will be overwritten and unretrievable.
hope that helps some,
littleshoulders [:-)

Recommended forensic/ file recovery software (free)

Hi,
I've recently had a catastrophic error with a hard drive which meant I had to erase my hard drive and reinstall OS X fresh. I have a number of files, specifically photos, that I need to recover and I'm familiar with some Windows (boo... hiss) products such as Disk Digger but there appear to be a bit more sparse for OS X.
the only product I can find that gets some recommendations is EaseUS but it's not cheap @ $99. That said, I'd pay it if it really does do the business. As there is an abundance of free Windows alternatives I'm hoping there is something that will do the job for free.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks

Try their free option first
http://www.easeus.com/mac-data-recovery-software/
If it works, $89 is cheap if it recovers needed files.
Having to use a data recovery specialist can easily cost you hundreds of dollars if not more.

Recommended File Recovery Softwar

Hi,
Any recommendations for a file recoversy software?
I'm looking at the following, but i don't know which one's the best... 'hope you guys out there can help me decide... thanks in advance...
-Techtool pro
-Boomerang
-FileSalvage
-DiskWarriior
any other?
thanks,
zurc

There's no best. Search the forums or google for those and see what others say about them. In addition to what you posted, I've heard good things about DataRescue.

File Recovery Software - Cheaper than Subrosasoft?

Is there any software for recovering accidentally deleted files that is cheaper than subrosasoft.com ($80)?
Or demo software with a fully functional demo period (that lets you save what you've found)?
Or ideally shareware/freeware!

Data Rescue II has a demo. It will only allow you to save one file no bigger than 500k. It cost more though for a full working version.

Possible file recovery for Excite AT300

Unfortunately my AT300 started freezing up during startup and I had to face the invetiable and do a factory reset after two years of usage. Unfortunately I didn't back up anything. My main concern was after resetting it was that I had lost text files of writings etc. I am wondering, however, is if it is even possible to recover anything after a factory reset? The only thing I could think of would be to attemp to connect the tablet to a laptop and try to use file recovery software if the laptop can even acknowledge the AT300. Has anyone attempted this?

30 day trial, no money spent.
So why would anyone buy this Keith, if they could get full use out of it for up to 30 days, when just 30 hours would probably do ? Excuse the rhetorical question.
What is noticeable about the various file recovery programs is they let you sample them but mostly require payment if you want to seriously use them.
It is remarkable in the software universe of freeware, and OpenSource ware, that software recovery are the exception and give no free lunches, or at least none that I know.
*I suspect you will have to pay for this app to facilitate your file recovery*.
I'm not sure which one, but there is one that lets you restore one file, just to prove itself, but to get the rest you have to buy the software. Can't remember which one that is but see if you can find it, at least to prove something is recoverable before you fork out the money.
On the matter of creating a backup image using Disk Utility, did you do it according to these procedures?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
Still, if it has no mountable file system, I doubt if it can be created after the fact.
Sorry to be unable to throw some sunshine on your problems, but gee you are gonna have a great backup strategy in place after this. ...a little ray there.
P.S. You need to contact the providers of these software to clarify things - your expectations, payment, whatever.
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Photo recovery software for the 3G?

recently lost all photo files from my iPhone 3G and am looking for any file recovery software that is compatible with it...

If the photos were taken on the phone, did you not transfer them to your computer? They may be in your iTunes backup on your computer, check with MobileSyncBrowser (Google it).
If you're taking about pics in the Photo Library, those were synced from your computer and should stil be on your computer.

Two weeks into owning my iMac and I trashed a bunch of files. I see "recovery" software advertised. Anyone know anything that would be helpful?

I'm embarrassed to admit somehow emptied my trash with hundreds of files. I see on the web "recovery" software advertised. I don't dare pursue until I'm sure it's safe. In all the years using a PC I never did such a stupid thing. All the data lost are documents I transferred ffrom the PC -- Word docs, Excel docs, photos, personal stuff. The good news is these are all on my PC in the cellar. Any words of wisdom out there?

If you still have them on the PC, that's by far the best way to recover them.
There are several recovery software options, but mostly quite expensive and none of them can guarantee that files can be recovered in a usable form.
Even when they are recovered, they won't be organised - it'll just be a collection of files which you'll need to check for integrity and then re-organise.
They also require an external HD to recover to - preferably a bootable one.
Having used a couple of them in anger myself, I'd consider them a last resort if the alternative is merely inconvenient.
And of course, it is wise to always have a backup; preferably a bootable clone kept up to date, but TM is a minimum reccomendation.
Please don't use the trash as a storage area - you can't delete selectively from there; it's all or nothing.

Hard drive corrupted, recovery software threw iPhoto info files everywhere

Ok, so my hard drive got corrupted, and I got some of the data off of it, but not all. I think there is a lot of iPhoto files scattered about the folders in a "Lost Folder(s)," which the recovery software decided to do. (I used Stellar Phoenix) I watched the process of recovery happen, and I also looked through all those Lost Folders and saw that there was a few things that may be related to iPhoto.
I would like to know what files to look for and how they are organized in the iPhoto Library package. I do not want to rebuild my entire library like I already have to do with iTunes, especially with Faces.

I would like to know what files to look for and how they are organized in the iPhoto Library package. I do not want to rebuild my entire library like I already have to do with iTunes, especially with Faces.
You don't have a choice. There is no way you can reconstruct the Library - database files, Data, Original and Modified versions in precisely the correct locations and so on - from the assembled bits.
Regards
TD

How to recover trash emptied docx file using terminal!! please help, many recovery software doesnt work!

i accidentally deleted a .docx file today and emptied it in the trash!! i tried to use softwares like iskysoft,stellar,wondershare, but none can find the required file! I also tried to use terminal to recover my file by typing --> Tserings-MacBook-Pro:~ tseringdorjee$ mv .Trash/OS copy . but ended with
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so, please help!!!

If you placed the file in the trash and emptied the trash and recovery software is unable to get the file back, I'm afraid it is gone.
You will have to resotre from backups if you any, or else try sending the drive to a commercial data recovery outfit. But it will be very expensive and the likely hood of a better outcome is not high.
regards

Recovery software to recover Quicken data files

Need advice on what recovery software to purchase to recover deleted Quicken data files (.qdf). Have tried Disk Drill, but this software doesn't support this file extension.

http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-recovery-software/
BTW I believe that you can download a demo of Data Rescue 4, and the demo will give you an idea of what it can recover. If it looks promising, you then can buy the software.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

How should we delete the files & directories, which made by Rescue & Recovery Software.

I use Rescue and Recovery Software in Think Pad W500.
Carelessly, I made the backup files in the my HDD drive, which is not for backup use and for my daily use of my work.
Then, i found the one directory of Rescue and Recovery, and then i tried to delete the file including the related files.
(the directory capacity is 50GB, not small.)
I was not able to delete bot only the directories and the files.
I thought could delete them, once i un-installed the rescue and recovery soiftware.
I am looking for how to delete them.
someone's teaching it would be appriciated.

Which version of r&r do you have? R&R during the install will create folder \RRbackups on your Primary drive(local), typically your C drive. If you uninstall R&R, it will remove the \RRbackups folder. IF the r&r software is installed, you can delete backups by Launching r&r, advanced menu, click the ADVANCED tab at the top of the screen, select delete backups. ONLY DELETE 1 at a time!! From the newest, working your way back to the oldest.
I have 2 drives. C and D. I backup to my Second hard drive, thus I have 2 \RRbackups folders, one on each drive. If i uninstall, r&r, it cleans up the C drive correctly, but does NOTHING to the second hard drive. I have to go to the second hard drive, Modify the security access to allow me to delete the \RRbackups folder. If I reinstall r&r, then point to my second hard drive for backups, I believe it says " backups already there, would you like to keep them" or similar message. Next time I install R&R, I can verify if this is correct.
Please detail if you have 1 HDD, or 2 HDD. If possible, please post a screen shot of the Folders on the drive you are having issues with. It sounds like you were backing up to, maybe USB, then 1 day you accidentaly backed up to the LOCAL drive.

Recovery Software for Disk Image Backup on External Drive

Hello. I am currently running OSX Yosemite on a mid-2010 Macbook Pro. However, before I upgraded from OSX Maverick I installed a SSD as a boot drive and moved my original Toshiba HDD to the optical bay for media storage. Before the installation, I purchased a LaCie 1TB external hard drive, formatted it, then dragged the entire Toshiba HDD image from the desktop to the external HD. That image is visible on the external HD but is inaccessible by Disk Utility, whether I use it from the HD, the SSD, or the Installation DVD. All scans and attempts to mount and open the image fail. I realize now I made a mistake by not cloning the Toshiba HDD onto the external HD before starting but the image size (on the external HD) is 187GB, which corresponds with a somewhat compressed ~220GB (the original size of the Toshiba HDD). Therefore, it seems as though the files are present and intact, albeit currently inaccessible.
Is there any way to recover the files from the disk image, i.e. via Data Recovery Software such as Data Rescue 4, Stellar Phoenix or R-Studio? Alternately, could I use the same software to recover the now deleted files from the wiped and reformatted Toshiba HDD? I'm having trouble accepting that the 187GB of data on the external drive are really gone, as it represents over a decade of media collection and contains many irreplaceable files. I'm hoping there is something that can be done before spending a lot of money on clean room data recovery services. Please help!!!
Thank you in advance as any and all advice is very much appreciated.

General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.

My computer somehow restarted then deleted all my progress from Word documents. Is there any way to get these documents back without purchase of a data recovery software?

Recently when I open my Mac the screen stays black until I press the start button a few times. Usually at this point it's in sleep mode. This time, however, the computer restarted completely, losing any word documents that I had left open prior. Is there any way I can recover these files without a purchase of a data recovery software? I've tried looking in the 'recent' tab, but it didn't save anything I have done in the last week, and finals are this coming week. Please help!

If the system just Restarted on it's own, Shut down while you were working on something then started back up all those changes, edits, you had done in that app, document, are gone.

Can I use gpt to recreate/unerase a partition table? (Rebuild the GPT/GUID partition table?) I don't want to do FILE recovery.

(Yes, I've googled a bunch and read threads like this one already.)
Can I use gpt or some other app to recreate/unerase a partition table? That is, how can I rebuild a disk's GPT/GUID partition table?) I don't want to do FILE recovery.
What happened: Instead of erasing a single partition off a disk with many partitions, the entire partition table was erased (using Disk Utility, w/o deleting the underlying files). Somehow the "Erasing a disk deletes all data on all its partitions." warning message was missed.
I have a copy of the output of df, with the number of blocks in each partition, from just prior to the erasure, so I should be able to recreate the GPT/GUID partition table. Editing the GPT with a hex editor is not feasible. Simply recreating the partitions with Disk Utility will overwrite the key filesystem tables on each partition, and I don't want to do that, plus Disk Utility doesn't allow me to specify exact partition sizes anyway.
Surely there's an app for rebuilding the partition table (other than emacs' hexl-mode!) for recreating/unerasing a partition table when the partition sizes and orders are known? I've looked at the advertising for a bunch of recovery software and none of them clearly indicate that they will do what I want.
I guess I can try using gpt on a copy of the reformatted drive I've made with dd, and see what happens. But perhaps someone knows of a tool that should do what I need, or knows if gpt is that tool or not.
There are answers and tools that will do FILE recovery - search for files and recover the ones that aren't fragmented or deleted. As far as I can find, they just look for files on the disk, and don't pay much, if any attention to the filesystem info or directory heirarchy, which in this case is valuable. Of course I could send it in to DriveSavers, or the like. But none of that seems necessary, and the scavenging file recovery apps won't do the job well,
E.g. some are mentioned here:
I don't want to do FILE recovery.
Thanks for any help.
The links in this post are to pages describing the underlined term, e.g. the man pages for df and gpt.
dd output includes:
Filesystem
512-blocks
Used Available Capacity Mounted on

Aperture has the ability to work with files in their existing location. They are called "referenced masters." When you import images, you should select the "In their current location" in the "Store Files:" drop down box. Have a read of the documentation for full specifics. Unsure how you can resolve your duplication; might be some work but next time have a read of the manual first
Information for versions is stored in the Aperture database (library file). The masters can be inside the library file itself, or they can be somewhere else.

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