Jen Hawley of Siren music rang the other day after having inadvertently deleted a piece recored through Logic Pro on her MacBook. It was a classical piano piece recorded some weeks ago and when it was not found on the Firewire back up she wondered if it was still on the local drive. It turned out it was deleted with out going to the storage drive for back up.

A disaster in the making as it would be a little embarrassing to have to re-record that session.

The answer turned out to be Data Rescue for OS X by ProSoft Engineering.This software does a number of things including restoring files that have been deleted.

To retrieve files lost the application can be loaded on another computer and the MacBook booted in Firewire mode and  connected. The MacBook is kept as is, and retrieved files are transfered to the second machines’ hard drive.

After a few hours it was apparent that there was around 15 GIG of audio files that could be retrieved and sent to an external drive. That process took a further hour or so but now we are waiting for Jen to go through all that audio to see if the aiff file she wants is there.

Good luck Jen