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  1. 23rd May 2013, 07:55 PM #1
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    Angry Mac trash hmmm

    My daughter has a usb flash drive which has her school work on. There is about 2 gig of info on the drive. This was put on using a windows pc or windows lap top. Plug the usb into a mac and it does a little house keeping for you, all automatic and behind the scenes. Pops all that filthy windows stuff into a hidden trash folder. So to all that check the drive the info is gone. This was done apparently at her school. Daughter did ask the IT people at the uni but was fobbed of. I got a ever so slightly frantic daughter handing me the usb and see what I could do. I checked for viruses , Once I knew the drive was not corrupted I checked for hidden files and found the culprit. Luckily we have a mac lap top at home. So got a data recovery program of the web for a mac and retrieved the deleted data. A mac computer does not come with a restore files option for this trash folder. Certainly not endearing me to mac`s.
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    That process wasnt done by the Mac operating system, perhaps some software running on it, but not Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion.

    Mac's do generally handle the "recycle bin" differently to a PC, so if the data was in the trash folder (via the pc), then the Mac may do something funny with it, but ordinarily it wont touch/move any files on the storage media unless the operator tells it to.

    I also have to ask... Why frantic... why not just get the data off the backup device
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hall View Post
    Certainly not endearing me to mac`s.
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    Definitely not the Mac, blame the operator :-)
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    Highly likely its a carbon based error
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    Quote Originally Posted by Petetheprinta View Post
    Definitely not the Mac, blame the operator :-)
    I thought Macs were supposed to be user proof?
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    Quote Originally Posted by theresanothersteve View Post
    I thought Macs were supposed to be user proof?
    I have used Macs within my printing business for 25 years, with never a problem (never even had a breakdown). Since retiring I now sort out mac hiccups for family and friends. As user friendly as they are, I have discovered Macs are not idiot proof (not suggestion op is an idiot). In this case, problem APPEARS to have occurred before it got to the Mac
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