[OS X TeX] Potentially OT question: recovering deleted TeXShop documents

[Jeffrey Roland]

On Jul 22, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 7/22/06, Jeffrey Roland <jroland at lsu.edu> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I had the misfortune to lose some TeXShop documents through
>> > accidental deletion recently, and I'm trying to recover them  
>> from my
>> > hard drive.  I've used a program called Data Rescue II to recover a
>> > bunch of deleted files but none of the files (so far as I can tell)
>> > are LaTeX files.  Anybody have any ideas about what kind of files I
>> > should be looking for or other ways I might be able to get at these
>> > "lost" files?
>> >
>
> I believe that DR should be directed to look for ASCII text files. You
> attempts to restore files will fail if the sectors where they are
> written are overwritten, which depends on: how much activity your HD
> have seen lately, how much free space do you have and how much RAM
> (since using a disk space for the virtual memory also overwrites
> files). To recover data use ANOTHER HD or recovering some files you
> erase remnants of others.

Thanks, Victor.  DR is supposed to recover ASCII files, but as far as  
I know I can't tell it to specifically look for them.  I recovered  
over 9 gigs of files yesterday, but none that I can identify as  
ASCII.  I think I may be out of luck on this one.

>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Jeff
>
>
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> Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
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