[X4U] file recovery software

[Stroller]

On Sep 26, 2005, at 9:58 pm, alexandre wrote:
> On 26 sept. 05, at 20:00, lj Palmer wrote:
>
>> Apple seems to over write recently released disk space so quickly 
>> that recovery seems to be nominally unsuccessful.
>
> yeah, i heard some people on this list mentioning this. this friend of 
> mine still wants to give it a try though…

Don't let her turn it on again, then!

If you find yourself having `rm -rf really important stuff`or emptied 
the trash of really valuable files, power the computer off IMMEDIATELY. 
Don't use shutdown, just pull the power lead out the back or (with a 
laptop) hold down the power button for 3 seconds until it hard-powers 
itself off.

Send the disk straight to a data recovery expert. It'll cost you 
upwards of a hundred quid to recover the data, but there are 
specialists who won't charge you unless they do recover useful data 
files. Vogon have a branches in the US now, I believe, or if you're in 
the UK contact me for the details of a little bloke who seems to have 
quite a good reputation. It's worth noting also that data recovery 
specialists seem to have discovered sliding pricing scales, so if 
you're a private individual who doesn't mind if the data isn't 
recovered for a week then it'll cost you much less than if you're a 
corporate customer.

Cue replies of "ignore Stroller's advice - just recover from a backup"

Stroller.