Recovery of lost file is it possible

I like to recover chat messages from Nov 6, 2012 to Decemeber 2012, can some help please

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How do you recovery lost files? (Didn't put it in the trash..just disappeared after cleaning comp)

Hi,
Yesterday, I was on the internet and a window popped-up saying that another peripheral device was connected to my computer. It froze the internet and then a few seconds later it was ok. I then decided to clean my computer of the unnecessary files and pictures, etc. In Finder, under the Tabs "Today", "Yesterday", "Last week"...etc. I found pictures in the section all images that did not belong to me. When I clicked on the pictures, my computer froze and another window popped saying "connecting to server". I could not restart my computer. I then did force quit Finder and it was ok after that. I restarted my computer and the Word Files from my desktop were all gone (not that I had that many but one was really important). The other things I had on my desktop were Files and they are still there. I also put that file that I need in my dropbox and it is also gone from there...
If anyone could tell me if it is possible to recovery these word files or not? And if my computer has been hacked or something like that...
Thank you..
Janyves

We can't tell if your machine was compromised or not.
If you have the DropBox online service than that would explain the "connecting to server" issue because that's what it is, a online server.
When the All Pictures did a search, it also did your DropBox.
Wthout a local backup you can't recover your deleted files.
Most commonly used backup methods
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
How do I securely delete data from the machine?
Secure erase data on a Solid State Drive?

I recently updated the iOS on my ipad 3 and lost all my files in the process. How do I recover my lost files which were not previously backed up?

I recently updated the iOS on my ipad 3 and lost all my files in the process. How do I recover my lost files which were not previously backed up?

If you don't have them backed up somewhere, then there's little possibility of recovering them. There are some utilities that can in some cases recover an inadvertently-deleted photo, but I've found none that can recover photos or other data from an iPad that was erased as part of an iOS upgrade. You can do a web search for something like "iPhone photo recovery" and you'll find some utilities you can try.
Regards.

I accidentally formatted my portable hard drive when setting it up for time machine. Is there any way for me to get back my lost files?

I have an external hard drive of the brand Western Digital.
Before I got my iMac I moved a lot of my important files from my PC to the hard drive and today I went on and connected it to my iMac to move my files over to it.
When it had connected a window popped up that asked if I wanted to use this hard drive with the program Time Machine and create backups. Without thinking it trough enough and reading the warning properly (I'm stupid I know) I clicked "yes". I then realised how stupid it was and cancelled the formatting of the hard drive. But somehow the program still managed to delete all my important files and can't find any way to get them back. Neither can I connect the hard drive to my PC anymore so I can't check if the files are still there (which I doubt they are since I can't see them on my iMac either).
And now I wonder: is there any way for me to get back my lost files or are they lost forever?
Thank you in advance!
//Gina

A data recovery specialist or some data recovery programs should be able to help. Most format simply rewrite the directory tree saying no files are on this disk. The bits that represent the files are still flipped appropreiately so they still exists, you just don't have the location info to get at them. Secure formats and erases rewrite each bit to a zero or 1 or random so the data is then truely gone. This type of format takes a long time to complete.
I'm not making a recomendation of a particular program but here is one company that does what you ask:
http://www.remosoftware.com/mac-recovery The cost is pretty high but I'm sure they don't sell many copies and need to cover their development costs.
Good luck and don't write anything on the freshly formatted disk until you decide what to do.

External Drive Partition, Lost Files

As the title suggests, I made a mistake that "erased" all my files on a backup external hard drive, after splitting a partition in two and installing Mac OS X Leopard on the new partition. I use quotes in "erased" because the data itself is still there, but the access to it isn't anymore. Before thinking about using recovery software and going through the harsh process of churning through hundreds of GB of data to recover files that could be corrupted in the end, I wanted to seek the opinions of more knowledgeable people to see if there are alternative solutions that could be more simple.
Here's my situation and all the steps that lead to my current state. I have a iMac with Core 2 Duo Intel processor, 2.66 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and an internal hard drive of 320 GB, with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8) installed. For backup and temporary transfer of files, I use an external USB hard drive, a Seagate FreeAgent with 500 GB (500 billion bytes = 465 GB actually).
I wanted to boot from my external hard drive to do some maintenance on my iMac's hard drive. So I used Disk Utility to split the current partition (the only one) on my external drive. The drive had 465 GB, give or take, with approximately 50GB free. The other partition to be created was 10GB. I know this is the kind of delicate operation that should be done with caution, but Disk Utility was saying explicitly that "this partition will not be erased", refering to the big partition that will become approximately 455 GB, the one that contains all my files. I say to myself, okay, that is safe.
Now, here comes the thing that I'm not 100% sure about. At this point, I don't know if the big partition was already erased. Both partitions (455GB and 10GB) always mounted on the desktop just fine. I was probably just "presuming" that everything went fine.
Then I proceeded to install Mac OS X Leopard from the installation DVD on the small 10GB partition, which went fine. It's only at this moment that I realised that my big partition was empty. Shortly after, I set the permissions of the big partition to read-only, assuming it would minimize further damage.
That's about it. At this point, my first thought was, what exactly just happened? In my mind, playing with one partition should not affect the other ones, but apparently, something did anyway, for a reason that is beyond my knowledge. Right now, I'm still wondering what operation did do the damage, the partition split or the installation of Mac OS X? Why would any of these operations erase the big partition?
And here's another important point to ponder. Before the partition split, my external hard drive was formatted as APM, Apple Partition Map. After the split, or after the Mac OS X installation (which one, I don't know), the partition scheme had changed to GUID. Maybe this is the key to solve the problem.
I know that my data is still intact, at least in most part, and I know that the file structure (B-Tree information, and stuff like that) seems to be intact (completely or partially) as well, because I visualized some sectors of my drive with a tool called iBored, and I recognized some folder and file names.
That's all the details I can provide. Right now, I feel like any low-level operation on my external drive is like defusing a bomb. One little mistake, and boom! So I prefer to do nothing until I can get some advice from others.
Thank you for your help!

I had the EXACT same issue last night.
Today, I downloaded Disk Drill and it is scanning and recovering my lost files from my external hard drive.
http://www.cleverfiles.com/partition-recovery.html
I thought I was going to have a heart attack when none of my files showed up on my Finder and I did not have a clue what I was going to do as my hard drive has practically my whole life on there!
As we speak, disk drill is in the process of scanning my hard drive and locating lost files.
Next step is to recover the files..
Estimated Time Remaining: 3h 20m
I will let you know if this was fully successful. It looks like it wil be though so I say you do what I'm doing and start recovering!

How to recover lost files from ipad on mac

I have stored many videos, contacts, notes, music files and more on my ipad. Unfortunately, I lost my some files on it owing to my wrong operation. Now I am
looking for the ways how to get them back quickly, but it is failed. If you are familiar with this problem, please continue reading to give me some clues about how to recover these lost files from iPad on Mac computer? 100 coins will be added!

Firstly, you can rely on iCloud or iTunes to recovery iPad data, such as recover deleted text messages, photos, notes, restore iPhone contacts, after all, it is free.
1. Connect your iPad with iTune on computer
2. Right-click or control-click on the iPad icon under iDevice on iTunes
3. Select "Restore from Backup" from the given options
4. After it finishs, your contacts are back to your iPhone
Important Note: This works only if you have made a backup for your data on iTunes.
In case that the iCloud or iTunes cannot help to make a iPad Data Recovery, you can turn to a third party tool.
how to recover deleted files on iPad
http://www.iphone-data-recovery.com/recover-files-on-ipad.html
how to recover deleted photos from iPad
http://www.iphone-data-recovery.com/recover-ipad-photos.html
how to recover deleted videos from iPad
http://www.iphone-data-recovery.com/ipad-video-recovery.html

Recovery of deleted files

I decided to back up my University work over Christmas. I put all the work from my windows laptop onto an external hard drive and copy it over to the iMac computer. I had mind maps on the Mac that weren't on the windows laptop, for some reason still unknown to me, when I copied the stuff onto the Mac it deleted the stuff in the folder that was on the Mac and not on the external hard drive, so I have lost the mind maps that took me a week to do.
Is there anyway I can get them back?

Do you keep a Time Machine back-up of your Mac, or use any other back-up software?
If not, your choices are going to be limited, unfortunately. You're probably going to need something like this:
http://download.cnet.com/Data-Rescue/3000-2094_4-211375.html and even then it's not guaranteed.
If you haven't got a back-up you'd do best to stop using the Mac while you look for a solution, as the longer you do the less likely doing a full recovery of your files becomes.

Recovering lost files

My hard drive had to be replaced and so I lost everything on my computer. Now, when they replaced my hard drive they upgraded me from OS Tiger to Leopard but the issue is that whatever they did made it so my user account name and password didn't work so I could not upgrade the software. So Apple had me reinstall the OS. So now I'm back with Tiger and I had previously regained about four months worth of files plus some extras but the reinstall erased them and I wasn't told that. Is there a way to recover my lost files?

You'd need to contact a data recovery service such as OnTrack or Portlock.

Tx1312AU Windows Vista Recovery partition lost

tx1312AU Windows Vista Recovery partition lost after HD crash, how to get it back or should I try Win XP? (I hate Vista already...)

sijyb00 wrote:
See, the the thing is, I DID make the recovery cd... but it isn't working. From my understanding, the cd uses the information from the recovery partition to restore Windows? Correct me if I'm wrong. Every time I boot up the cd it detects no OS and when I click continue, it begins the installation and immediately says Installation cancelled, missing files, something like C:\win.int is missing.
So the recovery cd is not working. I called Toshiba and from what I could understand from the horrible english, was that they would charge me for another recovery cd... which I don't need, because I have one. Or send in my laptop for "repair." They said it was my hard drive. Which is complete bull**bleep**, when windows failed I ran a linux os on it perfectly fine, so it is not my hard drive.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? I have a product key for vista which I PAID for when I bought the laptop... I don't think it's fair to have to buy it over again for $100-200
No, the recovery disks don't rely on anything on the hard drive. From what you say, either you are not booting from the optical drive, or the disks indeed are faulty.
The last I knew, replacement disks were $25. See the sticky at the top of the General Discussion topic for details.
There have been a lot of reports of problems with recovery disks, so I'm a bit surprised that Toshiba won't ship you replacements at no charge. Might be worth another try, and an attempt to get to the next tech level.

Recovery of deleted file in KM

Hi everybody!
I´ve got a question about the recovery of single files which were deleted in a KM repository or a collaboration room. How can one recover such a file? There must be some way.
Christian

Hi Christian,
I don´t believe this
Informatics isn't a matter of faith
Believe it or not, it's a fact.
Is there any?
In general: No. But keep in mind how different KM repositories can be. As far as CM (DB) repositories are concerned, the DB backup is the only way. For other repositories / repository kinds other rules may hold (for filesystem repositories, filesystem backups may do the work, even if metadata would be lost which is stored in some DB).
Hope it helps
Detlev

How to recover lost files on external HDD

Hello all, I gave my external HDD (G Drive, I bought it from the app store), as far as I see the model ist something like - HDST HTS 5410, to a friend and the dumm *** deleted all my old files (movies, fotos) and put new ones. So my question is how to restore/recovery if possible. Thank you and really hope there is a chance.

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 MAC Data Recovery, 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. Recovery software usually provide trial versions that enable you to determine if the software would help before actually paying for it. Beyond this or if the drive has completely failed, then you would need to send the drive to a recovery service which is very expensive.
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.
Your files were most likely overwritten, so don't expect too much success at recovering them.

HT1423 after power interruption -all my folders went back with 3 years dates, jow do i return lost files?

after power interruption -all my folders went back with 3 years dates, How do i return lost files?

Malachi1234 wrote:
all my folders went back with 3 years dates
On what exactly? Your computer?
Do you have a backup off the machine that's stable?
Now your files are still likely there, it's just a naming issue or a PRAM/SMC problem for power and a cache corruption issue for the files.
If you don't have a backup of your files, copy everything you can to a external storage drive and disconnect it.
Next run trhough this list of fixes, I suspect the SMC/PRAM reset will help with the power issues and the #12 OnyX cache cleaning routine will set your folders right.
Remmeber after the PRAM reset to set your time and date correctly. Pehaps that is what s throwing off the date on the folders?
It's really hard to figure your problem out with the information provided.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3353
Again your files are likely very much still on the drive, you can recvoer anything as long as it hasn't be secure erased or overwritten by new data yet
Create a data recovery, undelete boot drive

Lost files (not the usual)

I've had Lightroom for a few months now and have some 17,000 images loaded through it from an external hard drive and have done extensive work on at least 2,000 of these images.
Today I turn on Lightroom(latest version) and the folder section on left side of window shows a TOTAL of 300 images. These are the most recent images I've downloaded. There are no folders and subfolders shown with the ? shown....just the 2 folders with these images in them.
My files are still on my hard drive but do not show up in Lightroom. All tutorials and Q&A about this (lost files) always refers to the ? being by the folders in Lightroom. My numerous folders and sub-folders are not even showing up. I hope this can be resolved without me loading some 17,000 images back into Lightroom. and what about all the Lightroom changes I've made to them?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Ed

Ed,
From your post, it sounds like you didn't understand what Paige was asking. He wasn't talking about folders.
Lightroom's catalogue is a file like any other, and it's possible that you have created a second one, into which you imported those 300 images.
Try this menu command and see if it lists a second catalogue:
If it does, click on it and see if your previous images are there.
Hal

Hi there, I have much files saved on pages ( ios ipad) , I just open it today and did not find .all the files !!!! Just 4!!! Taken in consider that I did not delete or making any wrong action. How I can return the lost files!!!! Help please

Hi there, I have much files saved on pages ( ios ipad) , I just open it today and did not find .all the files !!!! Just 4!!! Taken in consider that I did not delete or making any wrong action. How I can return the lost files!!!! Help please
its very important files!

tis true
I know, I always do that but I was in a rush to get somewhere and I was relying on my thousand dollar Mac to do some kind of recovery or something. I know Microsoft always keeps temporary files (I think Mac does too, part of me asking here in this forum was for someone to tell me where I can find those files) and when you go to open Office Works then it gives you the option of opening the last recent documents, saved or not saved.
I usually copy paste into my emial just in case something goes wrong with the created document but I just didn't have the time to login and do all that My loss, you live and you learn, BUT still if ANYONE got any info on this, PLEASE DO CHIME IN *keeping the hope alive*

Lost files by overwriting folder

Help PLEASE!
I made a stupid mistake and tried to back up a folder with some images by copying my Pictures folder from the PowerBook to an external firewire hard drive. I had a Picture folder there already with some subfolders. Unfortunately the folder structure on the ext drive had some folders which I had created there earlier but are not in the Pictures folder on the PowerBook. Too late I realised that by copying the newer Pictures folder over the one on the ext drive I deleted the subfolders that do not exist anymore on the PowerBook.
I am now hoping that some of the files in those subfolders still exist in some form and I will be able to recover them. I don't know how though. I would be very grateful for any help I could get with this...please!!
Many thanks!
PowerBook Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Hi, K. Download the demo version of one or more of the following data recovery utilities:
Data Rescue II
FileSalvage
VirtualLab
The demo version of each program will show you what files the full, paid-for version would be able to recover from your hard drive. If you like what you see, buy and use the full version.
Any of these programs will require that you have a second hard drive to which the recovered files can be saved as you recover them. In your case, that can be your internal HD, provided there's enough room on it. You'll want to install the data recovery software on the internal HD, boot to that drive, and use the recovery software to inspect the external drive for recoverable files. Any files you decide you want to recover will be saved on the internal drive, to avoid overwriting anything more on the external drive.
To be recoverable, the "lost" files on the external drive must not actually have been overwritten. If the new Pictures folder actually occupies the same addresses on the external drive as the old Pictures folder did, then the files have literally been overwritten and are gone forever. But that may not be the case: if the new folder was written to a different part of the drive, and only the directory entry for the old folder has been removed, the files may be recoverable. There's no way for you to tell where on the drive the files were written except by trying to recover them.
Be aware that everything that has been or will be written to the drive after the Pictures folder was replaced has the potential to overwrite files that you may want to recover. So it's very important that you STOP using the external drive at all until you've recovered whatever you need from it, or determined that your files aren't recoverable.
Good luck.

Recovery of lost file is it possible

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