[X4U] Re: Emergency post / Disk recovery vs file undelete

[PoolMouse]

Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net> wrote:

>  > From: PoolMouse <poolmouse_nyc at mac.com>
>>
>>  Verduron <verduron at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>  >Any recommendations? TIA
>>
>>  get a backup system in place and restore accidentally deleted files
>>  from your backups. whether you use drives, tapes, cd's, etc., backing
>>  up is the best insurance you have against data loss....whether
>>  accidental or because of failure, disaster, theft, etc. i'm sure some
>>  company will market something that'll promise to recover deleted
>>  files. i would stay away from anything like that. instead, apple
>>  should be petitioned to offer customers a choice of writing to the
>>  oldest drive space as opposed to the newest (which is what happens
>>  now).
>
>At first, you write that "some company will market something that'll promise
>to recover deleted files" and then state "i would stay away from anything like
>that". And then later you state that Apple should allow "writing to the oldest
>drive space as opposed to the newest".
>
>That last sentence to me means that Apple currently is writing to areas of the
>disk that have had the most recent file activity, is this correct? 
>If that is so,
>and undelete utilities are futile, what does it matter how Apple writes to the
>disk?

undelete utilities are a farce because osx writes to the newest areas 
of the drive first. if not, then undelete would make sense i suppose. 
i only trust restores from backups.

don