Undelete from Mac boot drive
Posted: 23 May 2014, 11:59
Hello
The app Image Capture on my Mac has managed* to delete two folders containing ~2000 jpgs from my boot drive. When I select the drive in Testdisk I am told that "Write access for this media is not available", despite choosing not to create a log. When I continue through to "Filesystem Utils" there is no option to "Undelete". I have a USB drive attached to the computer that is recognised by Photorec and am happy to undelete to this destination but I do not appear to have this option. I thought it wise to ask for advice before restarting or attempting to boot from another drive in case this lowered the odds of a successful recovery.
Sandy
p.s. Thank you for what you do!
* the long version, if relevant - Image Capture has been importing to a folder named 002 within another named 6d, on the Desktop. I renamed 6d to 6D and clicked import. Image Capture reported that certain files could not be imported. When I checked in the Finder, the folder 6D had been filled with an apparently random selection of files from its previous contents. Cue much panic.
The app Image Capture on my Mac has managed* to delete two folders containing ~2000 jpgs from my boot drive. When I select the drive in Testdisk I am told that "Write access for this media is not available", despite choosing not to create a log. When I continue through to "Filesystem Utils" there is no option to "Undelete". I have a USB drive attached to the computer that is recognised by Photorec and am happy to undelete to this destination but I do not appear to have this option. I thought it wise to ask for advice before restarting or attempting to boot from another drive in case this lowered the odds of a successful recovery.
Sandy
p.s. Thank you for what you do!
* the long version, if relevant - Image Capture has been importing to a folder named 002 within another named 6d, on the Desktop. I renamed 6d to 6D and clicked import. Image Capture reported that certain files could not be imported. When I checked in the Finder, the folder 6D had been filled with an apparently random selection of files from its previous contents. Cue much panic.