Re: Off & Running
Not detectable but so many wires behind the desk, removing all the knew-well devices you will find mounds of devices and wires but I do think I¡¯ll hang two UPS on the wall before I begin again, one
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
I know and I¡¯ve used them all my life, I must have 6 to 10 in storage but the room with all my equipment squeezed into a space the size of a VW bug didn¡¯t really leave me any room, there is no
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John Robinson
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#1526
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Re: Off & Running
Hey, John, they make these cool things called Uninterruptible Power Supplies. ::-) Jonathan
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Jonathan Fletcher
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Re: Off & Running
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Sandra Schreiber <sgssilver@...>
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#1524
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Re: Off & Running
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
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
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,
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
Lee, I stand by my statement, I appreciate all your input. John
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
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
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Lee Larson
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Re: Off & Running
Lee, you amaze me! John
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
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.
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Lee Larson
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Re: Off & Running
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
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
Thank you Lee for the excellent explanation! John
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
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
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Lee Larson
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Re: Off & Running
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
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John Robinson
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#1514
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Re: Off & Running
What software are you using to do this?
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Harry Jacobson-Beyer
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Re: Off & Running
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
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
Plus 2 minutes ?
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William Micou
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Off & Running
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
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John Robinson
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Re: Can I get any dummer?
Thanks you so much Beth, I¡¯m thinking I¡¯m going to try Disk Drill, the reviews are great https://www.cleverfiles.com/reviews/ <https://www.cleverfiles.com/reviews/> John
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John Robinson
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#1509
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Re: Can I get any dummer?
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.
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Beth Phillips
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