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Does resizing partition actually erase it, unlike what Disk Utility explicitly says?
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<blockquote data-quote="murmeltier" data-source="post: 1372330" data-attributes="member: 238965"><p>Thanks for responding. At this point I'm pretty bummed. Because all of the undeleted files' names and organizational order are lost, it's almost no consolation to be able to "recover" them. If it took me only 5 seconds to open and re-name each file, which is a silly estimate when things like figuring out file organization relative to other files are considered, it would still take me 525 hours straight.</p><p></p><p>Another bummer: I have no doubt Data Rescue 3 is superior, but I already plunked down $100 for MacKeeper undelete software last summer, and it is excruciatingly slow. In three hours, it has scanned only one tenth of the drive.</p><p></p><p>I'm really quite bitter about the nature of the language in that Disk Utility window. The 'partition' section in Disk Utility has a resizable white window representing an existing partition. In this window, existing data on the partition is represented by a blue area proportional to the space used by the data. To re-size a partition, one re-sizes this window from the bottom-right corner in a way that the blue area remains enclosed (i.e. data unaffected) by the re-sizing. Worse still, it explicitly states: Apparently they mean that the partition <em>itself</em> won't be <em>deleted</em>, which would be an odd enough thing to say, but this follows their use of the word "erase" meaning 'erase data' one paragraph earlier. Clicking 'apply' does not set off any alarms in the form of red triangles containing exclamation marks. Nothing of the sort. It's surreal. </p><p></p><p>Anyway thanks again for responding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="murmeltier, post: 1372330, member: 238965"] Thanks for responding. At this point I'm pretty bummed. Because all of the undeleted files' names and organizational order are lost, it's almost no consolation to be able to "recover" them. If it took me only 5 seconds to open and re-name each file, which is a silly estimate when things like figuring out file organization relative to other files are considered, it would still take me 525 hours straight. Another bummer: I have no doubt Data Rescue 3 is superior, but I already plunked down $100 for MacKeeper undelete software last summer, and it is excruciatingly slow. In three hours, it has scanned only one tenth of the drive. I'm really quite bitter about the nature of the language in that Disk Utility window. The 'partition' section in Disk Utility has a resizable white window representing an existing partition. In this window, existing data on the partition is represented by a blue area proportional to the space used by the data. To re-size a partition, one re-sizes this window from the bottom-right corner in a way that the blue area remains enclosed (i.e. data unaffected) by the re-sizing. Worse still, it explicitly states: Apparently they mean that the partition [I]itself[/I] won't be [I]deleted[/I], which would be an odd enough thing to say, but this follows their use of the word "erase" meaning 'erase data' one paragraph earlier. Clicking 'apply' does not set off any alarms in the form of red triangles containing exclamation marks. Nothing of the sort. It's surreal. Anyway thanks again for responding. [/QUOTE]
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