dstuve@prism.cs.orst.edu (David Stuve) (05/13/91)
I'm still not sure what happened about five minutes ago, but when I clicked on three files and selected 'delete' from the workbench menu (this was WB 2.0 36.69) It went bezerk and started deleting *ALL* of my files on that partition. By the time I'd stopped it about 15 megs worth of stuff had gone south. So, is there a utility I can use to recover these files? Thanks, --Dave dstuve@prism.cs.orst.edu
andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) (05/13/91)
In article <1991May12.202549.13771@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> dstuve@prism.cs.orst.edu (David Stuve) writes: > >I'm still not sure what happened about five minutes ago, but when I >clicked on three files and selected 'delete' from the workbench >menu (this was WB 2.0 36.69) It went bezerk and started deleting >*ALL* of my files on that partition. > What probably happened was that you had your drawer or volume selected when you picked the three files to delete. >By the time I'd stopped it about 15 megs worth of stuff had gone south. > >So, is there a utility I can use to recover these files? DiskSalv can be used to recover your lost files to another partition or to another drive. andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "The best way to do video effects on a Mac is to use an Amiga." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
billsey@nesbbx.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (05/14/91)
In article <1991May12.202549.13771@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>, David Stuve writes: > I'm still not sure what happened about five minutes ago, but when I > clicked on three files and selected 'delete' from the workbench > menu (this was WB 2.0 36.69) It went bezerk and started deleting > *ALL* of my files on that partition. Probably you hit the shift key while the disk icon was still selected. That meant you selected those three files and the whole disk... That's why the box tells you what you're deleting before it starts. > By the time I'd stopped it about 15 megs worth of stuff had gone south. > > So, is there a utility I can use to recover these files? Several, actually. If you haven't written anything back to that drive yet, you can just run DiskDoctor on it. that'll recover any and all files that it can. A better one, if the partition size is under about 40M, is FixDisk (Currently version 1.2 I think), avaialbel in the PD/Shareware arena. If you have another partition to recover to, or time to recover to floppies, you can use DiskSalv (again, PD. By our own Hazy Dave. :-) > Thanks, > > --Dave > > dstuve@prism.cs.orst.edu -Bill Seymour nesbbx!billsey@agora.uucp or nesbbx!billsey@agora.rain.com ***** American People/Link Amiga Zone Hardware Specialist NES*BILL ***** Bejed, Inc. NES, Inc. NAG BBS NES BBX BBS Home Sometimes (503)281-8153 (503)246-9311 (503)656-7393 (503)640-9337 (503) 640-0842
crazyrat@disk.uucp (Crazyrat) (05/15/91)
In article <21508@cbmvax.commodore.com>, andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes: > In article <1991May12.202549.13771@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> dstuve@prism.cs.orst.edu (David Stuve) writes: > > > >I'm still not sure what happened about five minutes ago, but when I > >clicked on three files and selected 'delete' from the workbench > >menu (this was WB 2.0 36.69) It went bezerk and started deleting > >*ALL* of my files on that partition. > > > > > What probably happened was that you had your drawer or volume selected > when you picked the three files to delete. > > >By the time I'd stopped it about 15 megs worth of stuff had gone south. > > > >So, is there a utility I can use to recover these files? > > DiskSalv can be used to recover your lost files to another partition or to > another drive. > You can also use the nice program called RecoverII I recently found. It's a nice little gem that will search the hard drive partition and let you know the files that have been recently deleted, and gives you the option to completely erase or recover the files to another partition/device. With the nice intuition interface, I would say that in recovering files, RecoverII will get my patronage. @jap -- Joel C. Justen Crazyrat Productions Ltd. CRAZYRAT@DISK.UUCP JCJUST01@ulkyvx.BITNET