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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 just wanted to thank you guys for saving my friends and I two days of work with OfficeSalvage! :-)

Here are a couple of videos of my friends celebrating that we found the file. The first is moments after, the second is my friend telling her Dad how happy she was that we recovered the file (it's in Spanish, but you can see the joy in her voice and face :-) ).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iUWBbUJN3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEiBWx6PDOo

BTW, in case you wanted to know what happened. My friends opened a Word file from a USB drive and continued working on it for 2 days, saving frequently, but the drive was removed a while after opening the file. After finishing all the work and closing Word, the file was nowhere to be seen. Word was saving the file on the non-existant USB drive, it didn't say it couldn't save there or anything, it just saved normally (and actually didn't save at all!). I tried a million things, hidden files, Spotlight (including System Files), Caches, etc. NOTHING worked. Only OfficeSalvage got it back, it found a bunch of copies, all the revisions/times the file had been saved

Paul D. Spradling for OfficeSalvage