Hi, I have been using Mac's for many years and have implemented a great data backup system.
First some info: I have a quicksilver dual gig with 3 SATA drives connected to a PCI card. I am a photographer and get very paranoid about losing files so I thought I had a rather good backup plan.
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded a full 2 gig CF card of images and one partial CF card to a internal HD that is set up as my main archive data drive. I also have a external eSATA that i constantly use as a backup to my main drive. I also use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup my system HD (which is dedicated to only system and apps). Every Friday I synk all of my data to this drive and periodically burn data DVD's to always have a hard copy.
When I came to my main archive drive I noticed that one folder was completly empty! I was horrified! I searched all over and those particular photos just would not show themselves. I KNOW that I took them off my card as it was my standard practice to do just that. PLUS, I always create a catalog in iView that sits in each particular project folder. The iView catalog showed each and every photo with a image path to my original folder, but I got the red "missing data" error.
Luckily my final backup plan saved my butt as about 90% of the photos were able to be restored as I always keep my CF cards in archive for at least 2 weeks before using them again. (See how paranoid I am??) Unfortunately I thought I had a a backup and used the partial card I shot to the point where the files are unable to be retrived.
I just ran Data Rescue II to recover my deleted items and came up with over 20gigs of data that did NOT contain my missing photos, I viewed photos sets as far back as last year. If I did accidentially delete these pics (which I doubt) it would have happened at my last archive & clean (run DW, repair permissions, system checks..etc.) last Friday. What's even crazier is that another photo set from the same day is partially missing on my #1 archive drive. But my external backup has the complete folder and contents
I am totally confused why I cannot find these photos? Could my last DiskWarrior session have made them unacessable? I also normally run OnyX, could that be a problem? I noticed in the latest version (1.8) that I have the option under Maintenance>reset to "Display of folders content" and "LaunchServices database". Is this something I should try? I am about to run Data Rescue again on my entire drive and see if it pulls something up. Yikes! I really need help!
Should I run DW? I am really scared to do anything further.
Any ideas??
thanks!
First some info: I have a quicksilver dual gig with 3 SATA drives connected to a PCI card. I am a photographer and get very paranoid about losing files so I thought I had a rather good backup plan.
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded a full 2 gig CF card of images and one partial CF card to a internal HD that is set up as my main archive data drive. I also have a external eSATA that i constantly use as a backup to my main drive. I also use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup my system HD (which is dedicated to only system and apps). Every Friday I synk all of my data to this drive and periodically burn data DVD's to always have a hard copy.
When I came to my main archive drive I noticed that one folder was completly empty! I was horrified! I searched all over and those particular photos just would not show themselves. I KNOW that I took them off my card as it was my standard practice to do just that. PLUS, I always create a catalog in iView that sits in each particular project folder. The iView catalog showed each and every photo with a image path to my original folder, but I got the red "missing data" error.
Luckily my final backup plan saved my butt as about 90% of the photos were able to be restored as I always keep my CF cards in archive for at least 2 weeks before using them again. (See how paranoid I am??) Unfortunately I thought I had a a backup and used the partial card I shot to the point where the files are unable to be retrived.
I just ran Data Rescue II to recover my deleted items and came up with over 20gigs of data that did NOT contain my missing photos, I viewed photos sets as far back as last year. If I did accidentially delete these pics (which I doubt) it would have happened at my last archive & clean (run DW, repair permissions, system checks..etc.) last Friday. What's even crazier is that another photo set from the same day is partially missing on my #1 archive drive. But my external backup has the complete folder and contents
I am totally confused why I cannot find these photos? Could my last DiskWarrior session have made them unacessable? I also normally run OnyX, could that be a problem? I noticed in the latest version (1.8) that I have the option under Maintenance>reset to "Display of folders content" and "LaunchServices database". Is this something I should try? I am about to run Data Rescue again on my entire drive and see if it pulls something up. Yikes! I really need help!
Should I run DW? I am really scared to do anything further.
Any ideas??
thanks!