Hey,
My colleague had a report of monthly profits for July and he showed it to me via screen share and I wanted to read it more in depth so I took a screen shot of it. It was on my desktop for probably about an hour and then moved to my trash to probably a month before being emptied. Turns out our boss needs the July report for some reason. He has since sold the laptop he was working on and bought a new mac. He didn't think he had any need for the report, so he didn't back the file up. I had Data Rescue from back when my wife lost her hard drive, so I tried to use it for this.
I have done a quick scan and recovered many familiar looking files from that time period (August/September 2010). I looked in both my trash and desktop folders and found nothing. I looked through a ton of other folders too. That was the only screen shot I have ever taken, is there any chance the screen shot file acts differently then other files? It may sound strange, but I feel like mostly everything is there besides that file. The only thing I can think of is because it was a screenshot. My other question is when you take a screenshot, is the file put anywhere else besides on your desktop? Possibly in some other folder of some sort?
I am trying a deep scan overnight which should take about 6 hours and hopefully will find it, but I don't have much hope since I haven't found it yet with the quick scan.
Is the deleted files scan worth it? I would guess a deep scan is probably better anyway. I have emptied my trash probably once or twice since then.
Thanks a lot
Paul (My name isn't Ben Linus, just a fan of the show. Haha.)
My colleague had a report of monthly profits for July and he showed it to me via screen share and I wanted to read it more in depth so I took a screen shot of it. It was on my desktop for probably about an hour and then moved to my trash to probably a month before being emptied. Turns out our boss needs the July report for some reason. He has since sold the laptop he was working on and bought a new mac. He didn't think he had any need for the report, so he didn't back the file up. I had Data Rescue from back when my wife lost her hard drive, so I tried to use it for this.
I have done a quick scan and recovered many familiar looking files from that time period (August/September 2010). I looked in both my trash and desktop folders and found nothing. I looked through a ton of other folders too. That was the only screen shot I have ever taken, is there any chance the screen shot file acts differently then other files? It may sound strange, but I feel like mostly everything is there besides that file. The only thing I can think of is because it was a screenshot. My other question is when you take a screenshot, is the file put anywhere else besides on your desktop? Possibly in some other folder of some sort?
I am trying a deep scan overnight which should take about 6 hours and hopefully will find it, but I don't have much hope since I haven't found it yet with the quick scan.
Is the deleted files scan worth it? I would guess a deep scan is probably better anyway. I have emptied my trash probably once or twice since then.
Thanks a lot
Paul (My name isn't Ben Linus, just a fan of the show. Haha.)
