Re: file recovery

Subject: Re: file recovery
From: Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:59:43 -0400


Michele wrote:

Is it hiding somewhere? I've checked Temp and it isn't there. Word must have some "feature" that the original file went to a directory and saved it?

Assuming Windows, any file explicitly saved (can't speak for OLE) can almost certainly be recovered. Stop using the disk, get Forensic Suite, and turn it loose on the disk. It'll find stuff from years ago, on disk partitions that no longer exist.

Short of that, you're probably screwed.

On Windows (again) the read-only bit is your friend. You can make it part of your workflow to select all files that should be frozen (in Windows Explorer), right-click, Properties, select Read-only. Mistakes are precluded at the filesystem level. You can't rely on applications for this stuff. That's what we do on UNIX-y systems. Never fails.

LQ

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