[OSX-Users] Re: recovered hard disk

[Nick Gibbins]

On 1 Oct 2012, at 22:21, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 1 Oct 2012, at 22:14, Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Kroll Ontrack have managed to recover my completely futzed hard disk. Thankfully it was a  substantially mechanical drive problem that left the disk platters untouched (do disks still have platters?)
>> 
>> I thought I'd show you the path name of the only file that was unrecoverable, just to show you how recursively embedded my old (pre-Time Machine) backups went across different machines:
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>> /Volume/Backup Hell/FromInsideOldOfficeiMacDesktop/Documents/From Previous Machine/Desktop/Desktop/From iMac/Desktop/FEB/MailX/Mailboxes/2004.mbox/Messages/105093.emlx
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> That's the electronic equivalent of Dave DeRoure's office packing crates...

I disagree. Les was able to recover all bar one file. I'm still waiting 
for Dave to find (and return) the bound copy of my masters dissertation 
that I lent him in 1997.

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