It happens to us all – accidentally deleting a file. Or a folder full of files. This time it was at the end of a Friday afternoon with a new client, transferring data from his old computer to a new one. The process took many hours, the client left for a while, and then returned just as I was finishing up and getting his external drives reconnected to the new machine. I had cloned the old system to the new, but wasn’t recognizing the existing backup on an external drive.

Since we now had two identical copies of the system, I decided to just reformat the Time Machine drive (a Western Digital MyBook) and start over. There was also a 500 GB external LaCie drive containing other data. Some things require concentration.

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Using Disk Utility is one of them. I was multitasking and explaining to my client details about his new computer while setting things up. I selected the Time Machine drive, clicked on Partition, named it as before (MyBook), and clicked Apply. Are You Sure You Wish to Continue? asks Disk Utility. Yeah, yeah, I mutter and hit Continue.

A few seconds later, a new drive popped up on the desktop named MyBook. Just like the existing, unaltered drive on the desktop named MyBook. The drive once named LaCie was no more.

The moment of recognition that occurs here is similar to the experience of watching the locked door of your car slam shut with the keys jangling in the ignition. In recounting such events later, after the pain has passed, we describe them as learning experiences. “So,” I asked my client nonchalantly, “what do you use the LaCie drive for?” • • • Mac OS X Undelete Utilities The drive had been used primarily to hold music and video files, off-loaded to free up space on his internal hard disk. There was (it turned out) about 350 GB of data on the drive. I apologized, told him I could recover the data, and brought the drive back to my office for a weekend of unplanned excitement.

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All undelete utilities require use of a separate destination disk to which recovered files are copied from the damaged drive. A dedicated work drive is ideal when possible, one with adequate free space for the expected amount of data to be recovered. I started with Data Rescue II, which I’d used successfully before.

The scanning and data parsing passes took about 4 hours combined, then another 3 hours to recover files to the work drive – the better part of a Saturday. The result was a huge number of recovered files sorted by file type – Documents, Audio, Movies, Pictures, etc. – but no filenames! It’s nice to get a thousand Microsoft Word documents back, but not very helpful when they’re named D3464.doc, D3465.doc, etc.

This was true of every file type –.xls,.pdf,.jpg,.tif,.mov, et.al. I’d had this experience before – very frustrating. Perhaps different software could help. I tried FileSalvage next. Kudos here to SubRosaSoft – I purchased version 5 a while back, and the current release is v6.

I downloaded the newest version and entered my old serial number. The program responded that I needed a v6 serial number, but that it would honor the v5 serial number for two days in order for me to perform emergency work. This is a developer who knows its market – thank you! I subsequently found out there’s a free upgrade between v5 and v6 available by contacting SubRosaSoft directly. Scanning the drive with FileSalvage took about the same time as Data Rescue II (3-4 hours), but the tally of found files was displayed in real-time rather than requiring a post-scanning parsing. FileSalvage also breaks down file types more granularly than Data Rescue II; for example, whereas Data Rescue II recovers all QuickTime files as type.mov, FileSalvage breaks things down as.mov,.m4v,.mp4, etc.