is it possible to salvage data from a Mac disc?
Submitted by elektros75 on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 16:49.
i've been trying to salvage some files from a Mac iBook that died and I cant seem get it to work, I have the drive in an external enclosure and linux can see it, with linux mint i can even see the 'read only files' in the user directory, but i can't copy them or save them in anyway
i tried this code "sudo chown -R username:usergroup /media/drivename"
but i keep getting read only messages, even though i seems to change ownership, when i check the permissions, the files are still owned by the previous root or username of that HDD
is there anything I can do to get my pictures and documents out?????
I usually work from the
I usually work from the command line. I think I noticed that through a GUI, what you describe happens when you are dealing with a mounted mac filesystem and are not root.
What happens if you try this:
sudo -s
cp -vR /mountedMACFilesystem/home/* /target 1>filelist 2>fileerrors
...where the source and target destinations are modified as appropriate. That will copy all the files in the home folder and make a list of each file that was copied as well as another list of read-errors.
You can monitor the progress in another terminal with
tail -f filelist
You can salvage data from
You can salvage data from mac disk with mac recovery software. It is professional software which can undelete mac file in only a few minutes (http://www.undeletemacfile.com). It provides very simple interface, so you can easily use it.
That program is neither
That program is neither free, nor comprehensive. It is limited to only undeleting files from an intact filesystem.