[TriLUG] OT:MAC Data Recovery

[Brian Daniels]

>   Good Morning,
> 
>   I know this is very off topic so I will apologize now.
> 
>   Recently I got married. My photographer used all digital to photograph my
> wedding.
>   Somewhere along the line he has deleted my files. He runs a MAC with OS X
> v 10.2
> 
>   He is giving me his HD drive and I am going to try to recover the data.
> 
>   My initial thought was to send off the drive to a data recovery specialist
> since I know nothing about MAC.
>   However, If I recall correctly, I think if I throw this in my Linux
> machine it will see the drive?
> 

Under RedHat 8 I was unable to mount Mac HFS disks.  When I dug into the 
problem, it appeared that the HFS driver had not been maintained and was no 
longer compatible with the kernel.  I haven't tried it under RH9 to see if 
the situation has got any better.

Depending on what the camera used for storage, it may be possible to 
retrieve the pictures from there.  There are several apps for Windows that 
let you recover pictures from flash media.  A quick Google found:
http://www.iolo.com/sr/tool.cfm?tool=26
as one example.  This only works if he hasn't overwritten the cards with 
more photos, though.

Good luck,
Brian


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