[P1] I accidentally deleted photos from my iPhoto! Pls help!

[Angus Wallace]

It shouldn't matter, about the time of installation (i.e. if you delete 
the files before you install the program)

Think of a hard disk as a series of pages on which you can write 
information. you have a special section where you make a note of where 
you've stored information (think of this as a Table of Contents in a 
book). Any page that isn't indexed in the table of contents can be 
written over.

When you delete a file, all you do is remove its listing from the table 
of contents - its actual data remains in place. However, it's only a 
matter of time until your system looks at the contents, sees that the 
space is vacant, and overwrites the data.

The type of programs we're talking about look for data on the hard 
disk, and ignore the table of contents. In this way, they can sometimes 
recover data that have been 'deleted'.

I hope this is clear, and helpful,
Cheers,
-Angus

On 31/05/2004, at 3:23 PM, Gary Galang wrote:

> Thanks Angus...
>
> I wonder if it will allow me to recover files I deleted before I 
> installed the software..... I'm thinking of getting Norton Utilities 
> but it might be the same.... One other person suggested Photo Recovery 
> which looks great but I'm having problem with it (see my other email 
> please).
>
> Thanks again for your assistance...
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 12:53  AM, Angus Wallace wrote:
>
>> Yeah - I was just looking up the same thing. try looking for 
>> 'undelete' and 'hfs' (the mac filesystem), and you come up with 
>> products like this
>>
>> http://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/mac.php
>>
>> I have no idea what it's like, but it may help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Angus
>>
>> On 31/05/2004, at 2:20 PM, David Molho wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, it matters still what you've done since you deleted. If you've 
>>> not done much, run an unerase utility like the one that comes with 
>>> Norton SystemWorks. If you haven't done much, the disk may not have 
>>> over written the sectors on your Hd and you have a good chance of 
>>> recovering them.
>>>
>>> Try it, it can't hurt.
>>>
>>> -- David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2004, at 11:43 PM, Gary Galang wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just sent an email to retrace what I did.... I emptied the Trash 
>>>> before I realized the files were gone....   :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 12:38  AM, Jim Shimozawa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On May 30, 2004, at 9:21 PM, Gary Galang wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I accidentally deleted precious photos from my cousin's wedding 
>>>>>> last night in iPhoto... please help... is there anything i can do 
>>>>>> to recover them? It was my fault, I was very careless.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anyway to recover the ones I opened/edited through 
>>>>>> Photoshop elements? That was the software I was using to edit the 
>>>>>> photos when I deleted them.
>>>>>>
>>>>> This is obvious, but did you double click the trash icon to see if 
>>>>> your photos are still there?
>>>>> JS
>>>>>
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