Questions tagged [file-recovery]
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How can I recover photos that won't export from a macOS photos library, can't be edited, and have no originals?
Hopefully this will serve as a more focused and generalisable version of this question and this question.
This isn't my system photos library so the photos aren't in iCloud.
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Recover files from a deleted and erased external disk partition
I had an external disk with two volumes:
Volume A was formatted as NTFS which had videos/photos backed up
Volume B was Mac Extended Journaled - which was used for Mac Time Machine backup.
However, ...
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Recover data from fusion drive on late 2015 17 inch iMac which no longer displays (possibly burnt)
This time last Christmas my fusion hard drive stopped working. It had been loud and the back of the iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) was burned. After eventually installing the macOS onto the 121....
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`sudo` and other commands not found in terminal in startup options mode
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When I use terminal in recovery mode (on a MacBook Pro with Apple silicon) a lot of bash commands seem to be missing and give me "command not found" errors when I ...
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Corrupted photo recovery on very old iOS device, no cloud backups
I have an iPad Mini, first generation, model is A1432. It is running 9.3.5 (13G36).
I decided to copy all my media from the device as none of it was backed up to iCloud/Google. I believe that some of ...
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How can I recover data from .incomplete and .previous Time Machine backups?
I’m helping someone who has deleted their Time Machine backup by accident. All that is contained within the sparsebundle are .incomplete and .previous folders. I would like to recover as much data as ...
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recovering data from an imac 2017 with mojave that won't boot
imac 2017 mojave suddenly got stuck at boot screen. apple logo with boot progress bar reaches to 100% but then gets stuck there and computer never actually boots.
I need to recover some data before I ...
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Data recovery on MBP 15’s SSD corrupted drive?
It seems like I’ve used up all space on my MBP, and when I rebooted it it became corrupted/inoperable (when I go into disk utilities, Macintosh HD is “unmounted”, and when I press “mount”, nothing ...
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Apple Preview resets notes and highlighting on a PDF. How do I recover them?
I ended up having exactly the problem described here: I was highlighting and taking notes on a PDF file with macOS 10.14 Apple Preview and I realised only yesterday after finishing studying a ...
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Parallels Desktop: Any Chance of Recovering Deleted VM on Mac OS?
I deleted windows 10 VM from my MacBook two days ago. It was pretty large in size, around 50 Gigs, and I deleted to free up some storage. Before deleting, I copied all of my data, and I forgot to copy ...
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Recover deleted word document Help
I Had a word document which I'm unsure where it was stored. It said my desktop but I believe it was also in my icloud somewhere. I saved my work and then emailed it to myself, after emailing the work ...
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iPhone XS Max - went into disabled mode
I accidentally dropped my iPhone and part of the screen wasn't functioning. So I entered the incorrect passcode several times (Maybe around 10) and the phone got disabled.
Now, I have replaced the ...
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Recovering files from SSD of MacBook Pro that won’t boot due to water damage
Before you start lecturing me on making backups, I'm happy no announce that 90% of my data is backed up. I did exclude some non-essential folders because my internet is garbage. Losing these are an ...
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Can't find recently edited numbers file nor the folder the file was in
I have an iMac running High Sierra. I created a spreadsheet in Numbers a couple of months ago. I have been updating it a few times each week. Last edit was this month a couple of times. The Numbers ...
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How can I extract my MacBook Pro Notes files so that the data becomes "normal" again after my computer's file system crashed?
My MacBook Pro from ca. 2011-2013 or something kind of "crashed" - the computer's file system was ruined - when I did a manual forced shutdown because the Notes app was not responding. When I turned ...
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How to recover .cpp files emptied from Trash?
About 4 days earlier I deleted my important c++ files along with other files on the desktop by mistake without even realizing and figured it out later. I'm unable to find .cpp files in the deepscan of ...
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Is there a way to access a previous version of a Note?
I've been using Notes to keep track of billable time. I just realized that I accidentally deleted some text within a Note (not the Note itself, so it won't be in Recently Deleted) that I still need. ...
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Recover Deleted Zip file from macOS High Sierra
Today I faced a low memory warning on my Macbook Pro 2015.
I opened Storage Management application and started deleting unnecessary files and I accidentally removed a zip file.
I instantly opened ...
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undelete (-W) with rm (BSD General Commands) - Operation not supported
How to enable undelete for files in my Downloads folder? How does this undelete works?
$ rm backupstore.files.tar.gz
$ rm -W backupstore.files.tar.gz
rm: backupstore.files_.tar.gz: Operation not ...
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Lost SMS/Txt Msgs on iPhone
I seem to have lost the SMS/TXT messages on my iPhone 6 128GB (iOS 9.3). This iPhone is not jailbroken. I have the passcode. It's close to full with only about 3GB of storage left.
Suddenly, a few ...
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How to recover photos from iPhone 7 deleted via Windows Explorer?
My mom deleted some photos from an iPhone 7.
She deleted them via Windows Explorer.
There is no backup as she took them just a few days ago.
Is it possible to recover them?
Thanks.
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Recover Files in iCloud
I uploaded a garageband song-file to iCloud on my iPad. Unfortunately i deleted it from iCloud (on my iPad) and its gone on both my iCloud drive and iPad local storage. Is it possible to recover my ...
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Recover Deleted Voice Memo
I was trimming a just recorded Voice Memo and accidentally kept the part I wanted to delete instead.
Is there any way to get the original file back?
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Recover folder hierarchy, file names, file metadata from drive?
I'm posting this on AD because I'm using a Mac (Yosemite) to do the job.
This is the situation:
Friend 1 has a 600GB external HDD (FAT 32 formatted) that he has been using with Windows 7.
With ...
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Deleted .aae files and my photos are gone, how to restore, Help Please [duplicate]
I deleted .aae files by mistake and all of my related photos are gone. How do I recover these missing photos?
iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1
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File Recovery when Disk Space is not Reclaimed
I have a two disk system, Disk1 which contains OSX and Disk2 for misc files.
I deleted the .Trash folder on Disk1, which I assumed would only affect files on Disk1, but must have had an effect on ...
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Recuva for OS X?
I'm looking for a file recovery utility for OS X, like Recuva for Windows. (Assuming Time Machine wasn't configured) Is there anything similar?
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Recover deleted .SKETCH files
I recently deleted some sketch files that I would like to try to get back if I can. I trashed them over a month ago, I used stellar phoenix to attempt to recover them, and it found the files. It did ...
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Where can I find unsaved Preview images?
I have two unsaved images open in Preview. My Mac is on strike, no screen usable, but SSH is working fine. I really want to salvage my images.
Where can I find my images ?
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Windows 7 on Bootcamp doesn't want to boot. Can't copy files from Bootcamp to Osx mavericks
I have strange problem. A few days ago a was doing some projects on windows 7 and updates appeared , when windows was installing updates I closed it down by holding power button. After that I can't ...
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Recover Deleted Files on Mac OSX [External NTFS]
I have accidentally deleted some files on my Mac OS X Mavericks. Actually, I was trying to burn an .img file to my flash drive which was located at /dev/disk1 (at the same time I had connected a NTFS ...
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Recover Bookmarks, Mail, iCal and more after HardDrive upgrade
I have allowed myself a new SSD HD for my MacBookPro.
Now since i had a case-sensitive HD (don't aks) and i wanted to get rid of it and also finally install Lion, i didn't copy the image of my old ...
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How to recover accidentally deleted data?
My data has been deleted accidentally don't know how it got deleted.
Yesterday when I left office the folders where at proper place and when today morning I opened my Mac OS Lion 10.7.4. I found ...
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Recover files from one volume to another on the same Drobo?
One evening we had a momentary power outage, causing sudden shutdown for my Mac mini and the attached Drobo (4 bay). When the system came back up, only one of the two volumes mounted on the desktop. ...
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Recover a file after hitting "replace" in copy dialog?
Someone I know copied a file into a directory over another one and hit "replace" accidentally. Is there any way to recover the older version of the file on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8?
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