Re: PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Re: PLEASE HELP!!!!!
- Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!!!!!
- From: "William H. Schultz" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:38:57 -0800
You could delete the old backups by hand using Terminal, but
otherwise, no.
Make sure you have Time Machine set to ignore as much as possible
(e.g. your Build directory). If you have fink or Darwin Ports
installed, it may not be a bad idea to leave out everything except
your configuration directories. Since you're having issues with it
running at *all*, you could even leave out application installations
and OS X itself, since reinstalling an OS and applications is WAY
easier than coming up with a month's worth of fixes to source code.
On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Alejandro Aragon wrote:
Well, thanks to everyone for trying to help on this. I got a file
from Dec 16 in time machine and I'm going to build from there as it
contains maybe 80% of the file I lost.
Tonight I'll try go run strings on the linux partition:
$> strings /dev/sda2 | grep -A 1000 "element.cpp" > ~/Desktop/output
to see if I get something back out of it. However, I think that the
file is completely gone because xcode probably was saving the file
at the time of the power off.
The time machine is asking me to attach another hard drive (which I
don't have right now). I have only a 150 Gb hard drive to backup my
180Gb mar partition. That doesn't sound right, but that's what I
have right now. Does anyone know a why to replace old backups with
new ones? Because it's not doing automatically for me.
Once again, thank you all for the help.
aa
On Jan 16, 2009, at 7:23 PM, William H. Schultz wrote:
Disk Warrior is not designed to handle hardware errors, while Data
Rescue IS. Disk Warrior is great for fixing directory structure
issues, but it won't even do something as simple as a surface scan.
On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
On Jan 16, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Alejandro Aragon wrote:
It's been more than a month since I did a backup, you're telling
me that all that is time lost? There has to be another way.
You *might* get lucky and recover your data, but "has to be"?
No. There are things you can try (a couple of people have already
given you suggestions) but you may or may not get lucky.
You might want to back up your project directory now, even in its
corrupted state, in case other things you try (or even the
spinning of the disk, if it is damaged) corrupt it more.
Two apps I go to when I have disk problems are DiskWarrior <http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
> and Data Rescue <http://www.prosofteng.com/>. DiskWarrior's
reputation is excellent and I believe Data Rescue's is pretty good
too.
The problem and/or solution might not be related to Xcode, so it
may be off-topic for this list. Omnigroup hosts a list that is
more for user issues: http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
. Maybe someone there can help. Take a deep breath and try not
to scream at people.
You might have to resort to a professional data recovery service.
And that's all I'll say, because I think this probably *is* off-
topic.
--Andy
On Jan 16, 2009, at 6:23 PM, David Blanton wrote:
Restore from your back up or scm.
On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Alejandro Aragon wrote:
Hello everyone,
I was working with xcode and my battery run out and the machine
powered off. When I turned the machine back on, and I saw the
file I was working on, it was completely damaged!!! It looks
like a binary file and I think I lost all the C++ code I've
been working over a year.
Can anyone give me any suggestions on what to do???? I really
need that file,
aa
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