So all my Cubase projects are gone...

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Posted by RiCo on Jun-02-2004 02:46:

So all my Cubase projects are gone...

...EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Yes, I'm very upset at the situation. Either my anti-virus or my firewall cleaned up the "trash" files and took my CPRs with them. Well, I don't see the positive side of this yet; maybe one of you can tell me . Freq Limit is gone, too. Well, start from scratch...AGAIN. This is the second time it happens but the first time I don't know what happened.

Has this happened to anybody?

Posted by Boomer187 on Jun-02-2004 02:51:

google around for data recovery programs, when shit is deleted it is usually always recoverable.

I never have any luck with them so I don't know any good ones.....but good luck to you

Posted by emander on Jun-02-2004 02:55:

Go with Norton and Ad-aware dude!

Posted by RiCo on Jun-02-2004 03:28:

I use Norton and ZoneLabs. I have some software recovery programs, but they yielded no results.

Posted by Electronicapo1 on Jun-02-2004 03:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
google around for data recovery programs, when shit is deleted it is usually always recoverable.

I never have any luck with them so I don't know any good ones.....but good luck to you

wait really!?!?!?!? Not to thread jack this lame bitch but... 3 days ago i deleted about 30 gigs of mp3s, my entire collection. It was a freak accident, something to do with me being a dumbass. Anyway do you think it is possible to get them back?

Posted by RiCo on Jun-02-2004 03:35:

Wow man! Well, they (recovery software companies) say you gotta stop using your computer. Because the hardrive will write over the deleted data space. That's why the software sometimes can't do anything. If you delete something and it was important enough to get it recovered, turn the power off and don't use that hardrive until you're ready to recover.

Posted by BTG on Jun-02-2004 03:35:

happend to me a few times, thank god i suck at it anyways.

Posted by Boomer187 on Jun-02-2004 03:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Electronicapo1
wait really!?!?!?!? Not to thread jack this lame bitch but... 3 days ago i deleted about 30 gigs of mp3s, my entire collection. It was a freak accident, something to do with me being a dumbass. Anyway do you think it is possible to get them back?

yeah, there is a chance of it.

They say the only safe way to delete data so that it is unrecoverable (like if you want no one to see it) is to delete the file 30 times, then do that 30 times. They make programs to do that called eraser. there are different settings, like delete 8 times and do it 8 times over and over, and my buddy was still able to recover the data.

wow, that took longer than expected, but yeah, search around, you'd be surprised at what they can revive.

Posted by Electronicapo1 on Jun-02-2004 04:10:

Posted by Tranc3 on Jun-02-2004 05:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
yeah, there is a chance of it.

They say the only safe way to delete data so that it is unrecoverable (like if you want no one to see it) is to delete the file 30 times, then do that 30 times. They make programs to do that called eraser. there are different settings, like delete 8 times and do it 8 times over and over, and my buddy was still able to recover the data.

wow, that took longer than expected, but yeah, search around, you'd be surprised at what they can revive.

Ahh, no amount of re-deletion will really erase the data. I'm not sure how it works with NTFS, or linux partitions for that matter, but with the FAT system, it's like a book. You have your table of contents, and then the actual book. Except you never look at the pages, you just look at the table of contents. If you want to delete something, all you're really doing is removing the entry in the table of contents, whereas the actual data is still there. What file recovery programs do is cross-reference the table of contents against the actual contents, and anything that shouldn't be there but is there, is "recovered." Thus, if you really really REALLY wanted to get rid of something, you'd either have to get a program that actually removes the data on those sectors, or you can overwrite the data with something else.

Posted by Tranc3 on Jun-02-2004 05:09:

Oh yeah, about the Cubase projects, never happened to me. I'm running Kerio Personal Firewall and Antivir, and I've never ever had any problems, plus my system is safe, or at least they tell me it is.

Posted by cheese on Jun-02-2004 05:10:

glad to hear it.........

Posted by Boomer187 on Jun-02-2004 05:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
Oh yeah, about the Cubase projects, never happened to me. I'm running Kerio Personal Firewall and Antivir, and I've never ever had any problems, plus my system is safe, or at least they tell me it is.

stop copying off me, I am using kerio.

and deleting more things over and over does get rid of data. but I think thats what you were getting at.

either way, if you want to get your data back don't use a program called eraser...its gone forever after that.