Hey, John, they make these cool things called Uninterruptible Power Supplies. ::-) Jonathan On May 17, 2023, at 2:12 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
Pig-Pin of Charlie Brown friends has nothing on me. There is no way to handle this. The first scan took close to 4 days, to tell me that was only a portion of the disk? The disk wasn’t partitions so I don’t understand but O.K. lets go ahead and do the second scan, that was going to be close to 5 days. It was about done and the electric company cut the electric in our neighborhood and I’ve lost it all. I’ll have to start all over. This is the job that never gets completed. What is going to keep the from doing this again.
What a deal.
John
On May 13, 2023, at 7:58 AM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
My one day to sleep in, however I knew 5:00 a.m. was supposed to be the completion of DISCOVERY by DiskDrill and I was going to see if any of the family jewels had been recovered, so up at 6:00, rushed to the computer. At the bottom of the dialogue was a green checkmark, “ALL RECOVERY METHODS COMPLETE”, 5.93tb found..
What the bold print gives the fine print takes away. At the top of the dialogue box was this message: “THERE IS A CHANCE TO FIND MORE DATA”. You just successfully scanned a PARTITION. While we found everything we could on it, there’s a good chance DiskDrill could find more deleted data if the whole disk was searched. It will take more time but may be worth it.
Really?
Apple will be ready to introduce the 2026 Developers Conference before this is complete.
But what choice did I have, so at this point the new DISCOVERY, says the time is right at 80 more hours and the size of the yet discovered data is 125.8 gig, but this number is still rising as is the time.
There should be a warning label with DiskDrill, using this software may cause premature aging.
John
On May 12, 2023, at 3:57 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
Lee, I stand by my statement, I appreciate all your input.
John
On May 12, 2023, at 2:17 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:
On May 12, 2023, at 11:25 AM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
Lee, you amaze me! Thanks! But you have a low amazement threshold.
One thing I forgot to mention is something I find amazing. Run Disk Utility and select the data volume of your main hard drive. If you do a File>Get Info on it, you’ll get a window with information about the volume. One of the items listed is the number of files on the volume.
For example, my MacBook Pro has a 500 GB SSD. The data volume has 373 GB used and contains 3,764,124 files.
This gives some idea of how hard it is for recovery programs to dig through a hard drive when the directory has been erased.
L^2
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Pig-Pin of Charlie Brown friends has nothing on me. ?There is no way to handle this. ?The first scan took close to 4 days, to tell me that was only a portion of the disk? The disk wasn’t partitions so I don’t understand but O.K. lets go ahead and do the second scan, that was going to be close to 5 days. ?It was about done and the electric company cut the electric in our neighborhood and I’ve lost it all. ?I’ll have to start all over. ?This is the job that never gets completed. ?What is going to keep ?the from doing this again.
What a deal.
John
My one day to sleep in, however I knew 5:00 a.m. was supposed to be the completion of DISCOVERY by DiskDrill and I was going to see if any of the family jewels had been recovered, so up at 6:00, rushed to the computer. ?At the bottom of the dialogue was a green checkmark, “ALL RECOVERY METHODS COMPLETE”, 5.93tb found..
What the bold print gives the fine print takes away. ?At the top of the dialogue box was this message: ? “THERE IS A CHANCE TO FIND MORE DATA”. ?You just successfully scanned a PARTITION. ?While we found everything we could on it, there’s a good chance DiskDrill could find more deleted data if the whole disk was searched. ?It will take more time but may be worth it.
Really?
Apple will be ready to introduce the 2026 Developers Conference before this is complete.
But what choice did I have, so at this point the new DISCOVERY, says the time is right at 80 more hours and the size of the yet discovered data is 125.8 gig, but this number is still rising as is the time. ?
There should be a warning label with DiskDrill, using this software may cause premature aging.
John
Lee, I stand by my statement, I appreciate all your input.?
John On May 12, 2023, at 2:17 PM, Lee Larson via ??< leelarson@...> wrote:
On May 12, 2023, at 11:25 AM, John Robinson via ??< profilecovenant@...> wrote: Thanks! But you have a low amazement threshold.
One thing I forgot to mention is something I find amazing. Run Disk Utility and select the data volume of your main hard drive. If you do a?File>Get Info?on it, you’ll get a window with information about the volume. One of the items listed is the number of files on the volume.
For example, my MacBook Pro has a 500 GB SSD. The data volume has 373 GB used and contains 3,764,124 files.
This gives some idea of how hard it is for recovery programs to dig through a hard drive when the directory has been erased.
L^2
?Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. — ?Wernher von Braun
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Pig-Pin of Charlie Brown friends has nothing on me. ?There is no way to handle this. ?The first scan took close to 4 days, to tell me that was only a portion of the disk? The disk wasn’t partitions so I don’t understand but O.K. lets go ahead and do the second scan, that was going to be close to 5 days. ?It was about done and the electric company cut the electric in our neighborhood and I’ve lost it all. ?I’ll have to start all over. ?This is the job that never gets completed. ?What is going to keep ?the from doing this again.
What a deal.
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My one day to sleep in, however I knew 5:00 a.m. was supposed to be the completion of DISCOVERY by DiskDrill and I was going to see if any of the family jewels had been recovered, so up at 6:00, rushed to the computer. ?At the bottom of the dialogue was a green checkmark, “ALL RECOVERY METHODS COMPLETE”, 5.93tb found..
What the bold print gives the fine print takes away. ?At the top of the dialogue box was this message: ? “THERE IS A CHANCE TO FIND MORE DATA”. ?You just successfully scanned a PARTITION. ?While we found everything we could on it, there’s a good chance DiskDrill could find more deleted data if the whole disk was searched. ?It will take more time but may be worth it.
Really?
Apple will be ready to introduce the 2026 Developers Conference before this is complete.
But what choice did I have, so at this point the new DISCOVERY, says the time is right at 80 more hours and the size of the yet discovered data is 125.8 gig, but this number is still rising as is the time. ?
There should be a warning label with DiskDrill, using this software may cause premature aging.
John
Lee, I stand by my statement, I appreciate all your input.?
John On May 12, 2023, at 2:17 PM, Lee Larson via ??< leelarson@...> wrote:
On May 12, 2023, at 11:25 AM, John Robinson via ??< profilecovenant@...> wrote: Thanks! But you have a low amazement threshold.
One thing I forgot to mention is something I find amazing. Run Disk Utility and select the data volume of your main hard drive. If you do a?File>Get Info?on it, you’ll get a window with information about the volume. One of the items listed is the number of files on the volume.
For example, my MacBook Pro has a 500 GB SSD. The data volume has 373 GB used and contains 3,764,124 files.
This gives some idea of how hard it is for recovery programs to dig through a hard drive when the directory has been erased.
L^2
?Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. — ?Wernher von Braun
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My one day to sleep in, however I knew 5:00 a.m. was supposed to be the completion of DISCOVERY by DiskDrill and I was going to see if any of the family jewels had been recovered, so up at 6:00, rushed to the computer. ?At the bottom of the dialogue was a green checkmark, “ALL RECOVERY METHODS COMPLETE”, 5.93tb found..
What the bold print gives the fine print takes away. ?At the top of the dialogue box was this message: ? “THERE IS A CHANCE TO FIND MORE DATA”. ?You just successfully scanned a PARTITION. ?While we found everything we could on it, there’s a good chance DiskDrill could find more deleted data if the whole disk was searched. ?It will take more time but may be worth it.
Really?
Apple will be ready to introduce the 2026 Developers Conference before this is complete.
But what choice did I have, so at this point the new DISCOVERY, says the time is right at 80 more hours and the size of the yet discovered data is 125.8 gig, but this number is still rising as is the time. ?
There should be a warning label with DiskDrill, using this software may cause premature aging.
John
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Lee, I stand by my statement, I appreciate all your input.?
John On May 12, 2023, at 2:17 PM, Lee Larson via ??< leelarson@...> wrote:
On May 12, 2023, at 11:25 AM, John Robinson via ??< profilecovenant@...> wrote: Thanks! But you have a low amazement threshold.
One thing I forgot to mention is something I find amazing. Run Disk Utility and select the data volume of your main hard drive. If you do a?File>Get Info?on it, you’ll get a window with information about the volume. One of the items listed is the number of files on the volume.
For example, my MacBook Pro has a 500 GB SSD. The data volume has 373 GB used and contains 3,764,124 files.
This gives some idea of how hard it is for recovery programs to dig through a hard drive when the directory has been erased.
L^2
?Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. — ?Wernher von Braun
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Lee, I stand by my statement, I appreciate all your input.?
John
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On May 12, 2023, at 2:17 PM, Lee Larson via < leelarson@...> wrote:
On May 12, 2023, at 11:25 AM, John Robinson via < profilecovenant@...> wrote: Thanks! But you have a low amazement threshold.
One thing I forgot to mention is something I find amazing. Run Disk Utility and select the data volume of your main hard drive. If you do a File>Get Info on it, you’ll get a window with information about the volume. One of the items listed is the number of files on the volume.
For example, my MacBook Pro has a 500 GB SSD. The data volume has 373 GB used and contains 3,764,124 files.
This gives some idea of how hard it is for recovery programs to dig through a hard drive when the directory has been erased.
L^2
?Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. — ?Wernher von Braun
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On May 12, 2023, at 11:25 AM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote: Thanks! But you have a low amazement threshold.
One thing I forgot to mention is something I find amazing. Run Disk Utility and select the data volume of your main hard drive. If you do a File>Get Info on it, you’ll get a window with information about the volume. One of the items listed is the number of files on the volume.
For example, my MacBook Pro has a 500 GB SSD. The data volume has 373 GB used and contains 3,764,124 files.
This gives some idea of how hard it is for recovery programs to dig through a hard drive when the directory has been erased.
L^2
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? On May 12, 2023, at 7:48 AM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote: I’m banking on Lee’s explanation of how such software counts digits, otherwise I’m going to really have a surprise tomorrow. ?like a photo that shows an aberration the naked eye can’t see.
Remember, I wrote “in the simplest case" yesterday. Reality is a lot more complicated.
I assume your drive was formatted HFS+ because the newer APFS doesn’t work very well with spinning drives.
Files on an HFS+ disk can get pretty complicated because what the Finder shows as one file can actually be a package of many files. Files can have data and resource forks. A word processing file may contain the main text as well as many graphics files that are inserted into the view when you are running the program. . To see this for yourself, go into your Applications folder and control-click on a program such as Pages. One of the pop-up options is Show Package Contents. If you select this, it will give you a view of what’s actually hiding behind the single icon the Finder shows you. Poking around in the package contents reveals hundreds of files buried behind that single Pages icon.
The catalog for a partition keeps track of all this stuff, as well as miscellaneous metadata, in a binary tree structure. The Finder parses these trees to decide how to show you the files. When the drive is formatted, the tree structure is gone, so all those little files may show up individually during a restoration.
Let’s not even get into nuances like directories, forked files, and links. Apple has??about all this stuff on their developer site.?
Fun for your bedtime reading!
L^2
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On May 12, 2023, at 7:48 AM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote: I’m banking on Lee’s explanation of how such software counts digits, otherwise I’m going to really have a surprise tomorrow. ?like a photo that shows an aberration the naked eye can’t see.
Remember, I wrote “in the simplest case" yesterday. Reality is a lot more complicated.
I assume your drive was formatted HFS+ because the newer APFS doesn’t work very well with spinning drives.
Files on an HFS+ disk can get pretty complicated because what the Finder shows as one file can actually be a package of many files. Files can have data and resource forks. A word processing file may contain the main text as well as many graphics files that are inserted into the view when you are running the program. . To see this for yourself, go into your Applications folder and control-click on a program such as Pages. One of the pop-up options is Show Package Contents. If you select this, it will give you a view of what’s actually hiding behind the single icon the Finder shows you. Poking around in the package contents reveals hundreds of files buried behind that single Pages icon.
The catalog for a partition keeps track of all this stuff, as well as miscellaneous metadata, in a binary tree structure. The Finder parses these trees to decide how to show you the files. When the drive is formatted, the tree structure is gone, so all those little files may show up individually during a restoration.
Let’s not even get into nuances like directories, forked files, and links. Apple has??about all this stuff on their developer site.?
Fun for your bedtime reading!
L^2
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Countdown with 22 hours, 21 minutes, so by tomorrow morning I should know if the results are good.
So far almost 5 TB searched, 511,929 photos, 13,171 video, 56,752 audio, 86,88 documents and 68 archives, whatever that is. ?
I’m banking on Lee’s explanation of how such software counts digits, otherwise I’m going to really have a surprise tomorrow. ?like a photo that shows an aberration the naked eye can’t see.
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Thank you Lee for the excellent explanation!?
John On May 11, 2023, at 4:54 PM, Lee Larson via <leelarson@...> wrote:
? On May 11, 2023, at 2:04 PM, John Robinson via < profilecovenant@...> wrote: It’s DiskDrill, such a prize, it’s finding more items than the original…this freaks me out, so I have NO idea what is going to happen when it’s completely done. ?So far right at 3tb of the total 8tb. ?It’s found 158,542 photo’s, 6,299 video, 26,267 audio, 83,903 documents and 53 archives.
Tell you what, those are not the real numbers. ?Right now I still have 39 hours of DISCOVERY, once that is done there is a button for RECOVER ALL that I tag and then the truth of how good this is. ?I didn’t have near those numbers but I don’t know it counts.
Most such programs I’ve seen recover many fragments of deleted files along with whole files. This is a result of how they work.
In the very simplest cases, the directory of a disk contains a list of files on the disk. Along with the file name and some meta-information is the address of the first sector of the file on the disk. The directory also contains a table of contents showing which sectors on the whole disk are used and which are free. When you format a disk, the file name and meta-information is deleted and the table of contents is changed to show all the sectors are unused.
The actual file on the disk is a string of sectors in which each sector contains pointers to the previous and next sector of the file. In particular, the first and last sectors are marked as such. Recovery programs sift through all the sectors on the hard drive looking for these first and last sectors. When it finds one, it can then go forward or backward in the sector list to recover the whole chain of sectors for a file.
There are at least two problems with this method.
First, when a file is deleted from the drive, its information is deleted from the directory and the sectors for that file are marked as free in the table of contents, but the sectors themselves aren’t rewritten. When a new file is written to the disk, it may use sectors from the deleted file, but the first or last sectors of the deleted file may not be touched. The recovery program will see these old first or last sectors and then spend fruitless time trying to recover the original chain of sectors, failing because the chain has been broken in the middle by the new file.
Second, if a file had previously been deleted and none of its sectors has been reassigned, then the program will resurrect a ghost file. It may end up finding several older versions of a file that’s been repeatedly edited and saved.
Painstakingly going through a large hard drive and reconstructing the chains takes a long time.
With SSDs, recovering files is often hopeless because the operating system regularly tells the drive to zero out freed-up sectors. Remember the hubbub about the TRIM command when SSDs first came out? That’s what this was all about. It’s doubly important to back up SSDs.
I’ve had to resurrect disks a couple of times and that’s why I’m kind of fanatic about backing up by stuff.
Good luck!
L^2
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Thank you Lee for the excellent explanation!?
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On May 11, 2023, at 4:54 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:
? On May 11, 2023, at 2:04 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote: It’s DiskDrill, such a prize, it’s finding more items than the original…this freaks me out, so I have NO idea what is going to happen when it’s completely done. ?So far right at 3tb of the total 8tb. ?It’s found 158,542 photo’s, 6,299 video, 26,267 audio, 83,903 documents and 53 archives.
Tell you what, those are not the real numbers. ?Right now I still have 39 hours of DISCOVERY, once that is done there is a button for RECOVER ALL that I tag and then the truth of how good this is. ?I didn’t have near those numbers but I don’t know it counts.
Most such programs I’ve seen recover many fragments of deleted files along with whole files. This is a result of how they work.
In the very simplest cases, the directory of a disk contains a list of files on the disk. Along with the file name and some meta-information is the address of the first sector of the file on the disk. The directory also contains a table of contents showing which sectors on the whole disk are used and which are free. When you format a disk, the file name and meta-information is deleted and the table of contents is changed to show all the sectors are unused.
The actual file on the disk is a string of sectors in which each sector contains pointers to the previous and next sector of the file. In particular, the first and last sectors are marked as such. Recovery programs sift through all the sectors on the hard drive looking for these first and last sectors. When it finds one, it can then go forward or backward in the sector list to recover the whole chain of sectors for a file.
There are at least two problems with this method.
First, when a file is deleted from the drive, its information is deleted from the directory and the sectors for that file are marked as free in the table of contents, but the sectors themselves aren’t rewritten. When a new file is written to the disk, it may use sectors from the deleted file, but the first or last sectors of the deleted file may not be touched. The recovery program will see these old first or last sectors and then spend fruitless time trying to recover the original chain of sectors, failing because the chain has been broken in the middle by the new file.
Second, if a file had previously been deleted and none of its sectors has been reassigned, then the program will resurrect a ghost file. It may end up finding several older versions of a file that’s been repeatedly edited and saved.
Painstakingly going through a large hard drive and reconstructing the chains takes a long time.
With SSDs, recovering files is often hopeless because the operating system regularly tells the drive to zero out freed-up sectors. Remember the hubbub about the TRIM command when SSDs first came out? That’s what this was all about. It’s doubly important to back up SSDs.
I’ve had to resurrect disks a couple of times and that’s why I’m kind of fanatic about backing up by stuff.
Good luck!
L^2
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On May 11, 2023, at 2:04 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote: It’s DiskDrill, such a prize, it’s finding more items than the original…this freaks me out, so I have NO idea what is going to happen when it’s completely done. ?So far right at 3tb of the total 8tb. ?It’s found 158,542 photo’s, 6,299 video, 26,267 audio, 83,903 documents and 53 archives.
Tell you what, those are not the real numbers. ?Right now I still have 39 hours of DISCOVERY, once that is done there is a button for RECOVER ALL that I tag and then the truth of how good this is. ?I didn’t have near those numbers but I don’t know it counts.
Most such programs I’ve seen recover many fragments of deleted files along with whole files. This is a result of how they work.
In the very simplest cases, the directory of a disk contains a list of files on the disk. Along with the file name and some meta-information is the address of the first sector of the file on the disk. The directory also contains a table of contents showing which sectors on the whole disk are used and which are free. When you format a disk, the file name and meta-information is deleted and the table of contents is changed to show all the sectors are unused.
The actual file on the disk is a string of sectors in which each sector contains pointers to the previous and next sector of the file. In particular, the first and last sectors are marked as such. Recovery programs sift through all the sectors on the hard drive looking for these first and last sectors. When it finds one, it can then go forward or backward in the sector list to recover the whole chain of sectors for a file.
There are at least two problems with this method.
First, when a file is deleted from the drive, its information is deleted from the directory and the sectors for that file are marked as free in the table of contents, but the sectors themselves aren’t rewritten. When a new file is written to the disk, it may use sectors from the deleted file, but the first or last sectors of the deleted file may not be touched. The recovery program will see these old first or last sectors and then spend fruitless time trying to recover the original chain of sectors, failing because the chain has been broken in the middle by the new file.
Second, if a file had previously been deleted and none of its sectors has been reassigned, then the program will resurrect a ghost file. It may end up finding several older versions of a file that’s been repeatedly edited and saved.
Painstakingly going through a large hard drive and reconstructing the chains takes a long time.
With SSDs, recovering files is often hopeless because the operating system regularly tells the drive to zero out freed-up sectors. Remember the hubbub about the TRIM command when SSDs first came out? That’s what this was all about. It’s doubly important to back up SSDs.
I’ve had to resurrect disks a couple of times and that’s why I’m kind of fanatic about backing up by stuff.
Good luck!
L^2
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Harry,
It’s DiskDrill, such a prize, it’s finding more items than the original…this freaks me out, so I have NO idea what is going to happen when it’s completely done. ?So far right at 3tb of the total 8tb. ?It’s found 158,542 photo’s, 6,299 video, 26,267 audio, 83,903 documents and 53 archives.
Tell you what, those are not the real numbers. ?Right now I still have 39 hours of DISCOVERY, once that is done there is a button for RECOVER ALL that I tag and then the truth of how good this is. ?I didn’t have near those numbers but I don’t know it counts.
John
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What software are you using to do this?On May 10, 2023, at 9:21 PM, John Robinson via <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
If we are taking this journey together, before I check out for the night, just over 1tb has been scanned, 56 hours yet to go. ?So far, 54999 photos, 1951 videos, 819 audio, 66212 documents and 1 archive have been found. ?Once done, will the button “Recover All” work? ?
I need a Valium.
John
On May 10, 2023, at 1:15 PM, William Micou via <derbywiz@...> wrote:
Plus 2 minutes ?
On May 10, 2023, at 12:56 PM, John Robinson via <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
?The software is very cool, easy to install & learn. I thought you might like to see how long it takes to scan 8tb! ??64 HOURS. ?One thing about all this, once this lesson is learned I’ll never make this mistake again. ?So far it’s found 41 videos, 47 Audio, 20 documents, 4 photos. ?Sixty three hours from now I hope to have most all back?
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If we are taking this journey together, before I check out for the night, just over 1tb has been scanned, 56 hours yet to go. So far, 54999 photos, 1951 videos, 819 audio, 66212 documents and 1 archive have been found. Once done, will the button “Recover All” work?
I need a Valium.
John
On May 10, 2023, at 1:15 PM, William Micou via groups.io <derbywiz@...> wrote:
Plus 2 minutes ?
On May 10, 2023, at 12:56 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
?The software is very cool, easy to install & learn. I thought you might like to see how long it takes to scan 8tb! 64 HOURS. One thing about all this, once this lesson is learned I’ll never make this mistake again. So far it’s found 41 videos, 47 Audio, 20 documents, 4 photos. Sixty three hours from now I hope to have most all back
John
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If we are taking this journey together, before I check out for the night, just over 1tb has been scanned, 56 hours yet to go. So far, 54999 photos, 1951 videos, 819 audio, 66212 documents and 1 archive have been found. Once done, will the button “Recover All” work?
I need a Valium.
John
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On May 10, 2023, at 12:56 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
?The software is very cool, easy to install & learn. I thought you might like to see how long it takes to scan 8tb! 64 HOURS. One thing about all this, once this lesson is learned I’ll never make this mistake again. So far it’s found 41 videos, 47 Audio, 20 documents, 4 photos. Sixty three hours from now I hope to have most all back
John
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On May 10, 2023, at 12:56 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
?The software is very cool, easy to install & learn. I thought you might like to see how long it takes to scan 8tb! 64 HOURS. One thing about all this, once this lesson is learned I’ll never make this mistake again. So far it’s found 41 videos, 47 Audio, 20 documents, 4 photos. Sixty three hours from now I hope to have most all back
John
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The software is very cool, easy to install & learn. I thought you might like to see how long it takes to scan 8tb! 64 HOURS. One thing about all this, once this lesson is learned I’ll never make this mistake again. So far it’s found 41 videos, 47 Audio, 20 documents, 4 photos. Sixty three hours from now I hope to have most all back
John
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Thanks you so much Beth, I’m thinking I’m going to try Disk Drill, the reviews are great
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John, ? Here is an article on recovering erased files. Towards the bottom they list some programs that may be able to help your recovery efforts. ?
? Good luck, I know that sinking feeling, been there, done that. ? Beth Beth?Phillips
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Re: Can I get any dummer?
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Here is an article on recovering erased files. Towards the bottom they list some programs that may be able to help your recovery efforts.
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Good luck, I know that sinking feeling, been there, done that.
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Re: Can I get any dummer?
I did do a simple erase Harry, & yes I should have ejected the drives, I’m just glad I’m not a Pilot!
John
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On May 10, 2023, at 12:02 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:
?If you just did a simple erase it just erased the directory and can probably be restored (I don’t know how) But if you did a secure erase which overwrites multiple 0s in every track of the drive then I believe all is lost.
I ALWAYS do a most secure erase (7 passes over the drive writing 0s) before I give get rid of a computer.
You probably should have ejected the external drives before reformatting.
Good luck John
On May 9, 2023, at 11:36 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
?I have an older Mac Pro, internally there are 4 drives, a 10 TB, 1 TB, and two 8 TB’s.
I’m going to sell the unit so I made sure all the internal drives were backed up to the external, then I started formatting the drive…
Since all 8 were in a line down the side of the screen I accidentally erased an external drive and also had erased the internal.
I sure would like to retrieve the files, most are family photos and videos.
Do any of you know of a utility program that I can use to restore the drive? I know there are firms I can ship the drive to, I’m guessing they are very expensive…way back in DOS days I again didn’t know what I was doing and I deleted the entire hard drive.
There was a guy in the Windows user group that came to my office and restored the entire drive…that is what I need to do now.
I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
John
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Re: Can I get any dummer?
If you just did a simple erase it just erased the directory and can probably be restored (I don’t know how) But if you did a secure erase which overwrites multiple 0s in every track of the drive then I believe all is lost.
I ALWAYS do a most secure erase (7 passes over the drive writing 0s) before I give get rid of a computer.
You probably should have ejected the external drives before reformatting.
Good luck John
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On May 9, 2023, at 11:36 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
?I have an older Mac Pro, internally there are 4 drives, a 10 TB, 1 TB, and two 8 TB’s.
I’m going to sell the unit so I made sure all the internal drives were backed up to the external, then I started formatting the drive…
Since all 8 were in a line down the side of the screen I accidentally erased an external drive and also had erased the internal.
I sure would like to retrieve the files, most are family photos and videos.
Do any of you know of a utility program that I can use to restore the drive? I know there are firms I can ship the drive to, I’m guessing they are very expensive…way back in DOS days I again didn’t know what I was doing and I deleted the entire hard drive.
There was a guy in the Windows user group that came to my office and restored the entire drive…that is what I need to do now.
I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
John
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