rec.arts.movies.production.sound

On Oct 2, 4:02 am, soundchris < ...@ > wrote:
> 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
>
> Hi Oscar!
> Data recovery on Mac OsX works with Data Rescue 2 /
> Try the "deleted files" menue first. If this does not give you good
> results, try "thorough scan".
> Cheers
> Christian, Berlin

If you have access to a MSFT OS Ontrack works very well.