24.4.13 Now it hapened to me: My Mac crashed :o(

Try to connect your damaged harddrive as a secondary disk on your mac. If it was the operating system, you will be able to mount the harddrive and recovery your personal files!

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by ansalu 30 Apr 2013

We have bought a special program to recover the files (DiskWarrior) cause the hard disk is damaged (no virus or another software-problem). It has lost his structure and detroyed some files. We could recover some datas but many others are lost. Th badest thing is that I have no access to the mails that I have have pushed in the folders on my desktop: The system starts loading them but cannot find most of them. So I started to dl again at those pages where I have a order history. Most of the german pages send the files as attachment with a mail so I have to write to them and ask if they could send them again :o(

by zoefzoef 30 Apr 2013

When I was supporting the Mac's at work, there were trick to rebuild the index file. Are you aware of these commands ?
Will send more info via PM

I hope you can retrieve all your files!;>) Hugs, ro

I have MyPCBackUp and it backs up at a certain time daily. Love it. I never want to lose anything...ever!!!
Muffy :)

I am on backup computer now. Had to refomat my hard drive, I have Carbonite, which last time I had to restore - I did a lousy job of it, so now I have many duplicates. I am going to do a better job this time. I also back up on an external hard drive. That one moves from computer to computer.

Bettina I am so sorry. I hope you will be able to find more files and pictures.
So far I never had a computer crash on me and I would be so upset if I lost all that is on it. I am kind of overdoing it with back ups. I back up on a external hard drive through windows back up and my embroidery files and anything important manually to another one. From there it goes on another computer. The thumb drives I only use for transporting files to the machine. I must admit I don't do it every week either, but at least once a month.
I hope you can retrieve most of your files.

OMG...so sorry,I hope the new program works well and you recover everything! I'm bad at backing up - it takes sooo long and I don't do it often enough.

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by ansalu 24 Apr 2013

That's why I was so lazy with it too :o(

Have a hug you poor thing

I back up every other day to a jump drive. The designs that I've downloaded. Then I put the designs into my final folders. And once a month I back up this final folder to 2 large jump drives, and my external hard drive. One of the jump drives goes into a place not inside my home, just in case of fire. Lord, I'd kill myself if I lost all my embroidery. Yes it takes a lot of time to do this. It helps that I also have a netbook that I can use while I'm doing the back up on here. I also have a group of embroidery friends and when I do my backups I send out a general letter to remind them to backup. You can never back up enough. Rather over kill than loose. I hope your recovery program works. But if not you can take it to a repair show who might be able to so it. Good luck.

I hope you can discover your data.
I am glad your computer is lightening fast now.
I wish you lived closer to me -- so I could help you.

I think it happens to all of us at one time or another. Thank goodness my hubby bought an external backup and a new mac for me. Now, I can save without any fears. wish you well.

Oh Bettina - I am so sorry to hear this. Sarah.

Ach du meine Güte, liebe Bettina! Poor girl - so it had to happen to
you but you turned it to the good and I cross fingers that you'll able to recover the missing data...
once it happened to me after having taken a lot of good and not to be repeated photos - like holiday in Tuscany, family and friend pictures
when I wanted to put them in computer files from my camera chip.
Could not recover these - in fact, they also still were there but were not recognized.
It is always a sad story...and back ups really are mandatory. My expert sons even tell me to have a second hard drive (or computer) and store one fire- and waterproof.
Greetings and Hugs - Maria

Happened to me before as well. I have an external hd for the time machine but sometimes need the plug space so it is currently not plugged in- my backup is about 2 months old. Definetely going to be the first thing I do when I get home this afternoon. You have all my sympathy - appreciate the warning too.

So sorry that this has happened, I have a hard disk that I can schedule to back-up automatically (Sunday at 11:00) and this way I never forget. I too learned the hard way but was lucky to recover most of my files because I had backed up only a month before
Good luck finding the remaining files
hugs
Michelle