Lost all information before last back up, can I get it back?
I didn't back up my system for a week or so (I do it manually) and something just happened and all the data I had, the new bookmarks, my history are all gone. I'd like to get this stuff back. Is there a file I can open, a place I can look, some software I can download to get it back?
cheers,
wholemilk wrote:
I opened a file I downloaded from Transmissions and it opened a URL in Safari.
I don't know what this means. What is "Transmissions," and what was this file that you opened?
This is REALLY frustrating as I had 200GB from my external HD's in the trash cans
If you just had a glitch on one drive, that stuff should still be there. Are you saying you've lost stuff from multiple drives, not just the boot drive?
Do you think I can get it back?
If the stuff is truly lost, then it's possible with file-recovery utilities, but unlikely IMHO. If you have continued using the machine, the OS has been writing files all over the hard drive that would potentially overwrite your data. It's constantly writing to virtual memory swap files, and every time you open a web page, cache files get written. Log files change size, any new documents you create write to the hard drive... in short, if you don't immediately turn the computer off when you discover files are missing and only start it back up from a different boot disk once you have the file recovery utilities in-hand, you increase the chances of permanently destroying any "erased" data that might remain on the drive.
Also, is there an offline storage space for bookmarks?
If you have a MobileMe account, you can sync bookmarks to that.
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