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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to recover file when size=0?
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Date: 3 May 90 03:25:42 GMT
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Reply-To: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
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In article <1990May2.213153.19997@smcnet.smc.edu> byoder@smcnet.smc.edu (Brian Yoder) writes:
>In article <3520@tymix.UUCP> pnelson@hobbes.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:
>>The end result is that my file now has length = 0. Norton says there is 
>>nothing to read, but I don't believe him. Can anyone help?
>
>I wish you had included more information about exactly what happened, but from
>the sounds of it you might be able to use Norton UnErase to manually
>unerase the part of the file you downloaded.  
>Brian Yoder

   The more precise procedure, is to come up with informations strings of text
or data that are in the file, a phrase or something (it helps but isn't needed)
You'll select the whole data partition, & search for that string.  When finding
it, you need to make a map of the file location.  The go into unerase, & type
the 'file' map into unerase, and save the file.
   Unfortunately, I have yet to see a case (& I do this daily) where any 
version of norton will/can automatically add clusters to recovering a LOST
file.  As a matter of fact, I have kept the old versions of norton because 
in MANY ways they work BETTER for doing this. (are u listening ?)  I find the
file w/the new, then recover it with the old.  Sad but true.   I also own 
PCTools version 5.0, While I like the the windowing system much better than the
norton commander & stuff  (still, are u listening); & the performance is better
as a recovery program pctools didn't last the first week.
   My shrink wrap on the mac utilities is about to be ripped open, first chance
I get.  If it fills the voids caused by the pain in the axx from the bugs &
things in the old & new versions of norton, my norton will be up for sale,
cheap.  If not, well another one bites the dust & more job security for me.

al