[nylug-talk] Singing the praises of Magic Rescue

Peter C. Norton
Sat Dec 2 20:37:11 EST 2006


Yes, this rescued my SD card from an accidental "erase all" command
back in march. 

It's quite impressive what a little pattern matching and some
information about file formats can do.

-Peter

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:47:26PM -0500, Ah Pook wrote:
> 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*
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