FileSalvage

FileSalvage – Mac software for OS X that will retrieve files that have been deleted (undelete), rescue data from corrupted media, and recover lost files from your hard drive or storage device.

If you lose any files that you want back, just run FileSalvage and if the deleted files have not been written over (of which there are usually good chances), it will recover them. Corruption does not detain FileSalvage. It will process any intact data on the disk and recover whole or partial files wherever they are found.

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I can't believe how fantastic the FileSalvage program worked!

I thought I'd lost all my photos, but I recovered 95%+ of them. I feel like a complete Wally, as I lost the photos in the process of backing up onto my new external hardrive. I re-partitioned the drive on my Powerbook, thinking that I'd backed-up on to the external, when I found only empty folders (I didn't verify).

So I had to recover from the re-partitioned drive.

I think the trick is once you've discovered the mistake, don't interact with the computer until you're ready to do the recovery.

Thanks for the great software.

Lenny Aronsten for FileSalvage