[nylug-talk] Singing the praises of Magic Rescue

[wdg3rd@comcast.net]

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From: Ah Pook <ahpook at verizon.net>
> I'm sure there are other similar programs, but this is the one I love 
> right now:
> http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/
> 
> Same old story - girl takes pictures, girl copies pictures to hard 
> drive, girl erases (four gig) camera card, hard drive dies.  BIOS 
> doesn't recognize the drive, so it's beyond my meagre skills, but the 
> card still had the ones I was crying over.  God bless FAT!  God bless 
> Magic Rescue!  And god damn backup strategies that involve the 
> word "later."  :-D
> 
> *happy sigh*

And another reminder that if you are discarding a storage device (trash, sale, trade, gift, FBI raid, subpeona, whatever), erase and destroy all data thoroughly, don't just "del", "rm", or "drag to trash".  (Not to rain on the happy parade, but some folks have been seriously embarassed [and occasionally criminally prosecuted] due to material they _thought_ they had deleted).
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

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