Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!mandrill!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!utastro!werner From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: selective recovery (was Re: MacZap ...) Summary: you can recover data-files selectively also. Message-ID: <2737@utastro.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 07:41:27 GMT References: <107@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <2574@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 21 In article <2574@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, phil@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Phil Sohn) writes: > I highly recommend it. The only problem is that you need as > much blank space as used space to recover easily. (i.e. you need > another hard disk at least as big as the trashed on.) It will recover > to floppies, but that is a pain. I just thought that it might be worth adding (in case someone has need for such a feature) that you can recover data-files selectively also (all docs of a certain type, such as PAINT, WRITE, EXCEL, etc). If you keep all your applications backed up and only need to worry about data-files, this may well be the ticket to avoid the pain ..... thanks, Phil, for speaking up; it would have been a terrible disservice to the net to leave that original poster uncontradicted; some fellow-netter with disk-trouble might have avoided ZAP in result and ended up reinitializing his disk.... (ZAP sometimes can help you recover data even after initialization) in the past I have made new ZAP-parameter files available to the net (with permission from MicroAnalyst) but lately I have little or no luck communicating with the moderator of the sources and binaries (and I don't think that the problem is with at my end).