Recover a 36-hour-old file???

So, I've done something stupid. My daughter recorded something into GarageBand on Saturday. That night, I was monkeying around with the application—I thought I'd saved and was working with a differently named file, but wasn't—and I... er... screwed up the file. Badly.
And of course, we didn't discover it until today—Monday morning, when Time Machine's easy recovery was no longer possible.
Or is it?
I guess what I'm asking is, what happens to those hourly backups after the 24 hours are done? Is it possible to find an invisible, trashed version of the file? I tried (carefully) searching the backup disk for invisible versions, but so far no luck, and I'm panicked because I know the file will be overwritten soon...

Is the database running in archive log mode? Do you have any export dump files for the data in question?

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Rman delete old file and recover

Hi Friends,
after full backup.
we use below syntax to delete old file.
delete noprompt archivelog until time '(SYSDATE - 10)';
However, we get a message that file is used and delete failure. ramn stop process.
my question:
does the old archivelog file is deleted ot not?
If the old archivelog file is delete, do we have any command like sql rollback to recover it?
any other commane to recover mis comman in ramn.
or we must recover it?
Thanks,
ji

user589812 wrote:
Hi Friends,
after full backup.
we use below syntax to delete old file.
delete noprompt archivelog until time '(SYSDATE - 10)';
However, we get a message that file is used and delete failure. ramn stop process.
Please paste the error here.
my question:
does the old archivelog file is deleted ot not?
If the old archivelog file is delete, do we have any command like sql rollback to recover it?
any other commane to recover mis comman in ramn.
or we must recover it?
Thanks,
jithere is no any command sort of rolback to recover archivelog,if you have backup of archivelog then you can restore
archivelog from this archivelog backupset.
RMAN>restore archivelog all
Khurram

How to recover my backups?? i used migration assistant but none of my old files showed up. I backed up daily and did a full disk back up twice.

how to recover my backups?? i used migration assistant but none of my old files showed up. I backed up daily and did a full disk back up twice

Open System Preferences and select Users & Groups. Assuming the migration was successful, you now have a new account - it was migrated. Migration Assistant doesn't copy files, it copies accounts. To see your documents you'll need to log into the account you migrated. (It has the same password it did on the other computer.)

How do I create a new user, move my old files etc over, and delete old user

This is why I think I need to.
My computer got hit by lightening, and I may have created a new user account through netinfo rather than system preferences /accounts/+user. Mail used to open twice, but no longer. Now, Safari askes me for my keychain password twice, Spotlight can't find a folder on the computer when the search is restricted to folder and computer, though the folder is there and easyfind finds it, and when System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy has the hard drive icon added, then deleted, Spotlight still does not find anything. (Yes, everything is backed up, on CD, DVD, and online.) Microsoft Tec Support says
"Here is a summary of the key points of the case for your records.
When you contacted us on August 8, you had requested assistance with Microsoft Office 2004, as your installation of the updates was unable to find the correct version of the software to update. After creating a New MAC User, we identified the issue to be with a corrupt MAC User account, and not a Microsoft issue. "
I believe Microsoft. So, creating a new user was easy.
But copying files uses up too much hard drive (movies, music), and may miss keychains, preferences, mail, address book, and documents. Since Spotlight no longer works, who knows what is happening. (Yes, I've repaired persmissions, and disk repair. No change). I'm using up my hard drive trying to move files to the new user. If I share files, or put them into a public folder, then delete the old user, will I still have the old user's files in the new user's account? It is not clear to me what I should be trying to do in order to create a new user, move my old files etc over, and delete old user. Thanks.
My responses will be slow, because I have to drive to town to use the internet. I've ordered a new airport which may take care of that problem. SO be patient.

Hey -
I need to do the EXACT same thing, but have no idea how. Has anyone out there done this?
My situation is a tad different..this is a new Mac (and I'm a brand new Mac user). Tons of querks occur under my original account (videos won't run, Safari won't support certain plug-ins). I spent 6 hours on the phone w/ 4 different Apple Reps and nobody could fix it. A rep finally looked at my MacBook Pro in person today. He created a new account just to see if that would work and under that new account, everything works perfectly fine (no querks, can view video). He tried switching a million settings in my original account to no avail.
He said to create a new account (as he did) and move my files over to the new account and then go back to the original and delete it. How do you do this?! I can't figure it out! I've got a new account created, but of course it just has the default folders in it w/ the little red icons next to them! Thanks in advance!

HT201413 2 part question: First how can I place/transfer files from itunes to an andriod device, second, why is it that EVERYtime I install an upgrade or reinstall old files saved on an external drive, the files get corrupted or songs shortened/ or don't

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I have an issue with your software on my PC and iPad, iPod, and shuffle! Everytime I download and update or try to reinstall files after having my computer "scrubbed" they either won't open, can't be found or work poorly. WHY???? I have been through alot of this over the last 3 years, and I am tired of files safely and securely transferred becoming corrupted or unusable or just plain deleted. Please come back with and answer. I also have invested heavy into iTunes files downloaded from the iTunes store, so how can I safely store a remote copy(s), to reload onto my cleaned hard drive or to a new device Apple or PC????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!
Tired of wasted time manually loading files I should be able to use off a stored copy.
Richard Dreyer
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"Den B" wrote in message news:9528356a-7e8f-45bf-9eee-30b40b5df4aa...
Some strange glitch has erased every single unlocked & unprotected file on my C: drive. It wasn't a virus because I checked autorun records and running processes using the respective Sysinternals utilities and didn't find anything suspicious.
I restored all data except for some system files and files that had "too long" of a path using shadow copies, which luckily for me were just a few hours old. Then, I decided to reboot into Recovery Environment and run System Restore from there. For even
more strange reason, the available restore points in RE were dated November 2010 (it's May 2012 right now) and the recent save dates are nowhere to be found.
To make matters worse, SFC doesn't work and Safe Mode shows BSOD after loading CLASSPNP.SYS.
Error messages so far:
RE's startup repair tool: System files integrity check and repair error code 0x2
SFC: Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation
BSOD: 0x7B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0XFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0, 0x0), but the HDD is perfectly fine - it's a dual-boot machine
CBS.log: Failed to get CSI store. [HRESULT = 0x80073712 - ERROR_SXS_COMPONENT_STORE_CORRUPT]
What I need is a way to perform either an in-place upgrade without booting into Windows, or a way to fix the SXS Component Store, or rebuild the Safe Mode so that I could initiate upgrade install from there. A clean install isn't an option because I don't
have the luxury of time to run through the reboot cycles when re-installing and updating other software (I'm using Windows 8 CP for now as my work tools are mostly in the cloud).
It is not possible to do a repair install of a system unless you can boot to the system.
Have you checked the hard drive for problems? - download the manufacturer's test utility, create the disk, and run the extended checks.
Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi |
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HOW TO GET OLD FILES FROM HARD DRIVE? HELP!!!!

hello. so i changed my 320gb HD to a 1.5tb! its running good. the reason why i changed it was because it went white with a folder that had a question mark blinking! so i inserted the disk that came with it and it wouldnt come up on "select a destination" and when i would go to disk utility, it would only show "Media" (which i believe was suppose to be my hard drive), Pioneer CD-RW, and the Installation Disk. so i decided to buy a new and bigger HD and did a partition (dont what that means but it worked) and installed Leopard. now its working good. i just need help on how to get my old files from this old HD i have in hand (the 320gb). like what do i use? can i put it in a PC? PLEASE HELP!!!!!

If the old drive is not accessible then, no, you will not be able to access all your files on it. In this case you may need to look at the following:
Basics of File Recovery
Files in Trash
If you simply put files in the Trash you can restore them by opening the Trash (left-click on the Trash icon) and drag the files from the Trash to your Desktop or other desired location. OS X also provides a short-cut to undo the last item moved to the Trash -press COMMAND-Z.
If you empty the Trash the files are gone. If a program does an immediate delete rather than moving files to the Trash, then the files are gone. Recovery is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the hard drive - shut it down. When files are deleted only the directory entries, not the files themselves, is modified. The space occupied by the files has been returned to the system as available for storage, but the files are still on the drive. Writing to the drive will then eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in which case the files are lost permanently. Also if you save a file over an existing file of the same name, then the old file is overwritten and cannot be recovered.
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten with 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.
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.

Indesign cannot open "old files" CS6.

I was supposed to do a few adjustments in a project, i have opened it before and been working in it alot.. (2 months since last time i was working with this project) When i was supposed to do some minor fixes etc on this project yesterday i cannot open the file. The project it self are only on 8900 kB. What to do???? I can open my recently "newly" made and used projects.... Ive tryed some other projects that was also old, all between 2-6 months.. And it is just randomly witch i can open and witch i "Cannot open"..
This is the error for CS6.
This is the error for CS 5.5.
If you got some suggestions scream out! Will try it all that have worked before.. (If someone have had this same problem atleast!)
Sincerely,
David

First, a tip: Try manually breaking the links to the file by moving that document you want to open to your desktop or another directory or such and then try opening them... (corrupt image previews and/or images can then be largely elminated as a potential cause)
As @Peter mentioned, we (Markzware - link here to how that works) can likely fix this file. Interesting notes from @jongware above. Without having seen this file, our research shows there are various reasons an InDesign file can head south and corrupt or crash on you. Just like a doctor can not always say what caused the problem, there are some basic steps we all should take. For instance, OS up to date, InDesign using the latest update available, enough disk space and scartch disk space for heavy Adobe design operations. Here is a list of some of the most common issues with bad INDD documents:
* Corrupt Font(s) (or corrupt font caches - see below)
* Corrupt Image(s)
* Power Failure
* Placing images via drag-and-drop from an Internet page
* Working on an InDesign file over a network or on a remote server
Here is a video on how to tackle the font caches of InDesign, which is good to do once and a while anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf5ZuiaYgus
For checking individual font files (fonts are like mini apps really), we recommend either FontExplorer XPro or Extensis Suitcase Fusion 4, with the later perhaps the more popular of the two.
You can contact me on [email protected] if you need assistance with us trying to recover your bad InDesign CS file further. We also have a PDF to InDesign conversion tool called PDF2DTP if you have a PDF.
Friendly Regards,
David Dilling of Markzware

Cc 18 cloud version installed(windows), old files in cc17 crashes....help

cc 18 cloud version installed(windows) old files cc17 crashes......help

Crash,
There can be a number of reasons for crashing.
To overcome a possible file corruption, you may try to create a new document and File>Place the corrupted one to see how much may be rescued that way (remember to tick Paste remembers Layers in the Layer palette flyout/dropdown first, and to untick it afterwards).
Here are some websites where you can see whether it can rescue the file, and if it can, you may pay for a subscription to have it done,
http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/buy_illustrator.html
http://markzware.com/adobe-software/fix-illustrator-file-unknown-error-occurred-pdf2dtp-fi le-recovery/
http://www.illustrator.fixtoolbox.com/
As far as I remember, the first one is for Win and the one is for Mac, while the third one should be for both.
Here are a few pages about struggling with it yourself:
http://daxxter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-illustrator-ai-file/
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/troubleshoot-damaged-illustrator-files.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50032.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50031.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/enable-content-recovery-mode-illustrator.html
To overcome a possible CC18 corruption, you may look at the list.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save curent artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Firefox not working, instructed to create a new profile, said it would save old files, restarted firefox, all old files seem to be gone? Can anyone explain?

I was having issues with Firefox opening. I opened my Safari browser to troubleshoot and after looking for solutions to Firefox not opening, I opened the firefox profile manager. The directions instructed me to create a new profile and then delete my old one (and save old files). I did that and then upon restarting firefox all my bookmarks, history, passwords etc. were gone. When I looked at the folders in my profile file, they all had creation dates of only a few minutes prior. Did I lose it all? I followed the instructions, I don't understand where all my information went.

Did you use the Profile Manager or did you use reset to create that new profile?
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems
A reset tries to import some data from the old profile and then moves the profile to the desktop, but if you use the Profile Manager then you need to copy that data yourself to the new profile.
If you've deleted the old profile before making sure that your data has been recovered then you've lost that personal data.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

My old files disappeared using time machine

I backed up my Macbook Pro 3 weeks ago using Time Machine. Today I went after old files (more than 4 years) and they weren't there. Did TM erase my files?

As Martin says, Time Machine is not a permanent archive.
It will delete it's copies of things that are no longer on your system, sooner or later. Depending on when backups were done, that may be in as little as 24 hours or as long as there's room on your TM drive.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #20.

How do I open old files without application extensions on them?

I have lots of 1995 or so files written from a mac on 3.5 diskets most of which I have read onto disk.
But they have no extensions and I can't seem to open them.
If I had to guess I would say they are canvas, possibly powerpoint but using powerpoint 98and canvas 7 I can"t seem to open them.
I have a G3 powerbook. a G3 tower both running OS9, a powerPC macmini running OS10 and OS9 in emulation, a PC portable running System10 and another PC portable running XP.
What are my options short of seppuku?
I need to get these files to teach a course.
Thanks

When I use OS 9 and previous Mac systems I use CanOpener for problems such as you present. It is still available too.
http://www.abbottsys.com/co.html
Use CanOpener to get into just about any file.
Powerful Mac data recovery software. Our famous universal file opener lets you read any file -- and extract what you need including text, icons, PICS and more. It's perfect for browsing all types of files, including old files, foreign files and files your Mac can't open, and it's indispensable for recovering text from damaged files - a lifesaver!
Plus, CanOpener lets you view virus infected files without launching the virus. So you can safely check suspect files and recover text from them - a powerful way to avoid virus infections!
CanOpener has special text filters that let you...
*Extract Names, Phone Numbers, URLs, Email, Web and IP Addresses.
*Strip HTML Coding. Remove extra Carriage Returns and blank spaces from email and Web text.
*Extract important sentences such as questions or anything containing $'s and numbers.
*Rapidly find clean text in files that contain huge amounts of 'garbage'
CanOpener Extractor.
Now you are not limited to opening files individually. You can drag and drop any file, or a folder full of files, to do bulk extraction using any of the special text extraction filters! A fantastic time saver!

I shot at a Live performance last weekend by using the 'capture now' button. Now, my FCP is only playing the first 6 frames - how can I access or recover the full hour I shot?

I shot at a Live performance last weekend by using the 'capture now' button. Now, my FCP is only playing the first 6 frames - how can I access or recover the full hour I shot?

FCP X? Then you need to use a different forum...This is the FCP 7 and earlier forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/final_cut_pro_ x
FCP 7? Did it look like it captured normally? Everything go smoothly? Stop normal? Did an error occur at any point? Can you open the file in QT?
In the future...do not rely on ONLY FCP for this task. Get a reputable recorder that can record to ProRes. AJA KiPro, KiPro Mini, Atmos Ninja, Decklink Recorder...lots of options.

I migrated and now do not have access to my old files.

I used the Migration Assistant and it took about 2 hours for the migration to complete. I had to rename my old account and while I can look in Finder on the new mac and can see the folders, I cannot access them as the folders indicate I don't have permission to access them? If it is a migration, shouldn't it just dump the files into the current applications? I also set it up so i can swap account using the fast swap and such but in this case its not helping much, i'd like to know if there's a way to just unlock those files so i have free access to use them on my new User.

skatercasper wrote:
I used the Migration Assistant and it took about 2 hours for the migration to complete. I had to rename my old account and while I can look in Finder on the new mac and can see the folders, I cannot access them as the folders indicate I don't have permission to access them? If it is a migration, shouldn't it just dump the files into the current applications?
no. it migrates everything into a separate user. to get access to your old files you need to log into the migrated user. your old files are all there in the home directory of that user.
I also set it up so i can swap account using the fast swap and such but in this case its not helping much, i'd like to know if there's a way to just unlock those files so i have free access to use them on my new User.
this is a bad idea and will not work well. you should simply consolidate everything in one user account. since you just migrated presumably you have all your data in the migrated account. just use that account for everything instead of the new user you created on the original computer setup.

Start Db with old file set

I have a complete copy of all database files (control, redo, dbf, undo, etc.) made because I need to add another array to the existing server as we were running out of space. But today, instead of adding the disks, I had to bring the database up for some hot fix testing, so my backup files are currently old. if I need to make another backup that will take 7-8 more hours.I do not care for the database activity after the backup.
What I wonder is if I can start the instance with these old files ignoring the activity that happen after that as I do not need the changes. If the files are complete set, the instance should not be aware that there was some activity going after that, or...? I'm afraid that I might be wrong.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot for the help.
mj

Yes, the database was shut down gracefully and was down when the backups were made.I also did the check sums.
Sounds good - it'll save me a lot of time.
Thanks a lot, mj

Upgraded to win 7. kept my old files including program files on drive d. need my old bookmarks

during my win 7 custom installation I kept a copy of my old files on the Vista operating system on the D drive. How can I copy my old bookmarks into the new firefox under win 7?

You need to find the old profile folder which is not in programs files.
First make sure that you have set Windows to show hidden files - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial151.html
Search your D drive for a file called places.sqlite, there will be a copy of that file in the old profile folder. Once you have found the old profile folder, you can copy the necessary data files to your current profile folder. For details of how to open your current profile folder, and of the files to copy see https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

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