Whenever I delete a file, it is immediately deleted, regardless of type, size or location. I found the site below but I seem to be going in circles and the directions there don't seem to work for me. I have a Macbook Pro, 10.7.3, with an abundance of space. [URL]..
View 1 RepliesMac OS X 10.7.3 Macbook Late 2008 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo · 3 GB RAM.- When In delete any file the administrator password is needed and file wont appear on Trash. I disable secure trash.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have a MacPro (Intel), and I had my Music folder on a second (non-boot) internal drive. That drive was getting full, so I bought yet another internal drive to put in one of the other bays, thinking to copy the folders to the new, larger-capacity drive. So I bought a 2 Tb drive and transferred all my MOVIES to the new drive, but then went back and deleted my MUSIC folder and emptied the trash. I knew immediately that I'd made a mistake.
I haven't written anything to that drive whatsoever from that moment on, so absolutely nothing should have been over-written. I have plenty of room on the new drive to which I can recover the deleted files. Unfortunately the folder/directory was very large, with over 20,000 files, mostly of podcasts/spoken word stuff, much of which is no longer available or would represent thousands of hours of download time, plus all my digitized folk music from long out-of-print LP records.
You'd think I'd be more responsible with >600 Gb of data! However, fortunately the drive is in good working order, it just requires a good recovery strategy. I know that services that do recovery charge a fortune, and because I haven't written anything to that drive and it still mounts without problems, I'm hoping I can do this myself with a good data recovery software package. Because I am talking about literally thousands of files, it is just too painful to think about editing all the metadata about each file (name, artist, album, etc.), and ideally I would like to recover the files and the file structure so podcasts are recovered as such, etc.
Is this at all possible?
If so, what are the relative merits of File Salvage vs. Data Rescue vs. Kernel for Macintosh (Nucleus Data Recovery) vs. VirtualLab Data Recovery vs. Stellar Phoenix? Is there something better than these--these are the only ones I found on a Web search. Are there any head-to-head reviews of which someone is aware?
Does anybody have an idea what that problem may be? I verified the hard drive, fixed preferences and did secure empty trash... I can drag them to the desktop and they disappear but in a few minutes the back again to the trash
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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But when I try to use mkdir I get a permission denied.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
The first thing I did was go to the Disk Utility myself and verify/repair all my permissions - it repaired everything it wanted to but it failed to stop the trash problem. My theory is that, previous to this incident when I was using an App from the App Store called DaisyDisk I cleaned out 10GB worth of data that I considered unnecessary. It seems I was a little off with that thought, because I think I deleted my trash directory itself. Â Â
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have deleted by mistake som iTunes files which are now in Trash
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MBP uni 13" snow leopard.
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X(10.5.4)
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MacBook Pro
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac (24-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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