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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering lost files
Message-ID: <406@aucs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 20:46:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: aucs.406
Posted: Wed Aug 12 20:46:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 03:55:04 EDT
Reply-To: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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I think I know the answer to this already, but I have to ask
just in case. A mac user here accidently copied a blank disk
on top of another disk (by dragging the icon on top of the
other icon). He intended to go the other way of course, but
it was over before he could do any thing. No files were copied,
but copying disks in this fashion does destroy directory information.
I've used fedit to examine the disk and all the data is still there
(a lot of it!). But its all scattered around and worse yet, its
in Macwrite format so there's lots of formatting junk embedded
in the middle of the text. I've tried piecing together various
sectors but Macwrite always rejects them. I've saved sectors in
a straight text file and wrote a program to filter out all non-ascii
characters except tab and return, and although the result isn't
bad, it would probably take just as long to fix up the formatting
in this file (reinserting bold and so on) as it would to give it
to a typist to reenter everything from scratch. My question is:
Does anyone know how to recreate a disk after this sort of damage
has been done? Even some info on how Macwrite stores files might
be useful. HELP!!!!


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