From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 19:01:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FE7106564A for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:01:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john.jolley@raxco.co.uk) Received: from mail-gx0-f61.google.com (mail-gx0-f61.google.com [209.85.217.61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11A68FC13 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:01:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john.jolley@raxco.co.uk) Received: by gxk21 with SMTP id 21so12130650gxk.27 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:01:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.112.12 with SMTP id p12mr277289ybm.28.1231525782494; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:29:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:29:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090109002846.c67d962f.freebsd@edvax.de> X-IP: 79.65.40.84 References: <20090109002846.c67d962f.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; UUNET; User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; http://bsalsa.com) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <46d52892-7b55-4549-ac01-28fd8ba33985@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com> From: Rockingham500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Restore deleted files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:01:31 -0000 1. Yes, you can recover your deleted files. 2. The best file recovery program is File Restore Professional. It will also recover files that have lost their file header details and hence have no file names. Most other products can't do this. You can also preview your deleted files before you make your purchase. There is also a testimonial on the companies web site about Microsoft employees in Germany using it. Further information, trial downloads, etc., are available here: www.pcrecovery.com On Jan 8, 11:28=A0pm, Polytropon wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to ask a two-stage question: > > 1. Is it possible to recover files that have been deleted? > > 2. Which tools or procedures are suggested for recovery? > > While sorting out some files and transfering them to another > hard disk, I accidentally deleted too much: the directory with > my videos taken by a digital camera. They were located in a > directory within a subtree, and I deleted the whole subtree > without first copying these files. > > I used the Midnight Commander to do this. As I read from its > source code, it seems to use the unlink() call to delete the > subtree recursively. Pressing PF8 can really ruin your day... > > Just after I noticed what I had done I unmounted the file system, > powered off the machine and put the disk on the shelf (it's still > there), no further write accesses. > > I would be glad if someone could enlighten me if there is any > chance to get the files back, even with the loss of the file > names (doesn't matter), and which tools seem to serve best in > this difficult task. > > And if it's impossible, please tell me. I can newfs the disk > then and free it, along with my mind. > > PS. > I'm posting this question to -fs, too. Answers from this list > please keep me in CC because I'm not subscribed to -fs. Thank you! > > -- > Polytropon>From Magdeburg, Germany > > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org mailing listhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailma= n/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.o= rg"