[X4U] Emergency post

[James S Jones]

I have to disagree. Here's how Prosoft describes Data Rescue:

"Data Rescue is the best data recovery utility on the market for 
recovering files from a problem hard drive. Other utilities can cause 
more damage to your hard drive and files by trying to 'fix' the 
problem, instead of focusing on recovering your files. Do not use a 
repair utility until you've safely recovered your important files over 
to a safe location. Data Rescue should be your first option to recover 
your important data, before you try any risky "repair" utility."

The original poster believed (incorrectly, as it turned out) that he'd 
deleted a partition, not files. Data Rescue is probably the only Mac OS 
utility that could recover files from such a scenario.

As it turned out, the poster had only unmounted the partition and 
emptied the trash. Apple really should end the ambiguous drag and drop 
function of the trash can. It's about the slowest way possible to 
unmount/eject a drive and has been a source of regular confusion for a 
large portion of users for nearly 22 years.

On Sep 18, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Linda wrote:

> On 9/18/05 2:52 PM, John Gittins wrote:
>
>> Don't put anything else into the trash and don't flush anything
>> presently in it. Buy a copy of Data Rescue X, available online from
>> www.prosofteng.com/. This is far the best recovery tool available.
>
> FWIW, Data Rescue is more for partitions that don't mount, or disks 
> that
> fail, than it is for recovering deleted files.