[RndTbl] Mac OS file recovery

Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 23:08:35 CDT 2009


Dan Martin wrote:
> Yes, I am hanging my head in shame for not having backed up.
> 
> An error by NetBeans trashed a number of scripts that I have spent  
> weeks writing.  Not in the trash, so I assume that it rm's things -  
> apparently without warning when I attempted to rename a project.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions about how to recover the files,  
> commercially or otherwise?
> 
> Dan Martin
> GP Hospital Practitioner
> ummar143 at shaw.ca
> (204) 831-1746
> answering machine always on


	I seem to remember the OS X man page for rm showed an rm -W option (not 
available in Linux) which will recover named files.

				Later
				Mike




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