This is by far no easy task. I’ve somewhat successfully salvaged a ton of files that were recently trashed and fried from my desktop. Maybe I should lay off the keyboard magic shows? By now I have come to terms that the seventeen-inch quicksandbox before me isn’t the best for keeping a lot of treasured work.
I found a piece of software by SubRosaSoft that can hunt and peck around the zeroes to recover the ones. FileSalvage, slightly a time cruncher, slightly a workhorse, was able to scan over my drive through ‘free space’ and recover a ridiculous listing of filetypes. Luckily there were results. And they were organized into folders! In this particular effort I was mainly concerned with a number of master Photoshop files and a few other toss-arounds that I had spit out. Much to my surprise the data — no, not Masterly Photoshop fileage — recovered was written into roughly a hundred or so Photoshop crumbs, not at all making FileSalvage out to be the hero I dreamt it. Now I sit in a puddle of thumbnail-less, overweight-with-metadata, corrupt .psds that don’t open.
What to do?
