rec.arts.movies.production.sound

On 1 Okt., 23:38, orcord...@ wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My name is Oscar Cordova and I've been a long-time lurker, first time
> poster.
>
> I am a very large crossroads right now, I have an external hard drive
> that I record from MetaCorder to and I have deleted the wrong files! I
> was doing maintenance on 6 drives at once yesterday and I accidentally
> deleted the folder that I was supposed to turn into post with about 4
> hours of 16track recordings. I deleted, emptied trash and then
> realized my mistake. So I tried using a software called File Salvage
> that did find the files and extracted them for me into another drive.
> The problem with this is that the files are not named the same
> anymore, they numbered consecutively as the utility found the files,
> additionally, all metadeta was lost!!! I have not reformatted the
> drive at all yet, can any of you shed some light as to how I could
> recover those files with meta-data?
>
> I am using Mac-OSX with LaCie drives formatted in OSX Journaled with
> defeats the attept to try some sort of Windows based recovery. The
> drive is perfect working condition, I just deleted the wrong files and
> need to get them back before post finds out.
>
> I would appreciate any and all suggestions with this problem At thank
> you beforehand for your help.
>
> Oscar

File recovery on Mac OSX works with SuperDuper. Try "deleted files"
first, otherwise you will need another disk with enough space to
recover the whole disk.
/SuperDuper/
Good luck!
Cheers Christian