Looking for File Recovery Software. File has been corrupted.

[Glumpfner]

Hi there,

I've been playing Zelda on the SNES9x emulator for the past weeks. Today my MacBook Pro crashed and with it, it has corrupted the entire save file for the game.

Unfortunately I don't have TimeMachine on my MacBook.

Can anyone recommend a software that can recover overwritten files?

 

[old-wiz]

If the file was overwritten I see no way to recover it. Correcting a corrupted file usually requires deep knowledge of the specific file.

 

[Glumpfner]

Well I am not looking to fix the corrupt file, I am looking to recover an old version of the file.

I normally save the game once a day after I played 2-3 hours. So if it would be possible to recover a version of the file that is 2-3 days old I wouldn't mind.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

It's possible you could, try Data Rescue 3.

 

[old-wiz]

If the save file has the same name every time you save it you are pretty much out of luck.

programs like data rescue recover files that have simply been deleted, not overwritten.