URGENT -- Preview.app temp directory Need to recover data!

Briefly, I was doing a lot of highlighting and note-taking in a PDF. Made it to the end, then wanted to delete something on my desktop. Don't ask me how, but when I deleted (via keyboard shortcuts) the PDF that I had opened was moved to the trash. Somehow Preview still had focus, I suppose. I retrieved it from the Trash and... nothing. No edits were there, because I had (perhaps stupidly) not saved my PDF during my edits.
Time Machine had backed up just five minutes before that fiasco, but of course the PDF that I recovered also had none of my edits, because I hadn't saved it.
You know how TextEdit creates a temporary file in the same directory when you're editing a document? Does Preview do something similar? If so, what directory does it store its temporary file in? I could dig THAT out with Time Machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Holy crap, I got it to work.
Essentially, I just waited until DiskWarrior reached Step 9 and told it to skip the step before it had a chance to freeze. It skipped successfully, moved on, rebuilt and replaced the faulty directory files.
So far the computer is booting like normal, I can log in, and I'm currently copying all of the data to an external as I type this.
I still have no idea why the computer wouldn't mount or boot to any drive, but I guess I'll deal with that later.

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I have an ipod 30 gig and I dropped it for the last time, now the battery is disconnected and I think the ribbon broke but I just tried to connect it to the port at the bottom and it says on the screen "please wait, very low battery" now I didnt even think it would respond with no battery but I was wondering is there a way that I can recover the data off the hard drive? the hard drive is still connected! anyways if you could help me out I have some very important videos on there, thanks Craig

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General File Recovery
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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.

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Hi,
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SQL> recover automatic database until cancel using BACKUP CONTROLFILE;
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bsac14 wrote:
my database is in no archive mode
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yes it is a datafile corruptionYou did not say how you defined that's a datafile corruption. You provide minimum to zero information.
I just need to bring the database up,no need any exact data
I can refresh from prod laterThen drop and recreate database. Basically and since you are not in archive mode, no recover is possible. Period.
Nicolas.Hi,
How did you come to the conclusion that your datafile is corrupted? Can you provide and supported logs?
Regards .....

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Dear Apple community!
I upgraded my MBP from Leopard to SnowLeopard (finally).
Everything went fine, but I found two versions of preview.app in my programs directory afterwards (yes, one in the specific folder where I once put it to).
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2nd: The preview.app I reinstalled came in version 501 - so I lost the updated one and do not know how to update the older version to the current state of art. The Apple software update assistant could not locate it. Any suggestions?
Ok, that's what I did, hope it'll help you, if you once face the same problem.
Thanks for answers and commentaries,
have a good one,
The MacManiacMan

Thx for the suggestion of a fresh install... I fear you might be right, but that solution isn´t providing me much happiness...
By the way, how to avoid another disaster of the same kind? Is there a possibility to get rid of those app doublets (that I usually find after 10.X upgrades) without messing things up?
Best regards,
Mr.MMM
Message was edited by: Mr.MacManiac.

URGENT -- Preview.app temp directory Need to recover data!

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