Mac Guru's: Help with file recovery

[bigbadhenchman]

A friend asked me if I coudl help him withg a drive that crashe.
The drive was recovered by a recovery company, but allthough all the data is there, it's not acutlly oiping.
I think that the resource forks are missing.
Is theer any way to repair damged resource forks on audio fiels, or to somehow fix the files?

It's on OSX.

[Chief Technician]

There are terminal commands for working with the forks. I don't remember what they are though.

[bigbadhenchman]

Any other tips?

Anybody?

[25ghosts]

normally it is not a problem recovering files and have em show up again - but most times the files are corrupted...I know of no way of repairing those files...Once I took my drive to EBASS a german recovering company..They charged me 1000$ to "Recover" the files - but would not guaranty any results...The result was that most of my files were there but I could not open any of them...

What I do know is use Techtool Pro. There I set the techtool to save protection files on 4 different drives... If one crashes I can use techtool and the protection file that was stored on the other drive to revive the drive or file that got corrupted.. This has worked for me know for about 4 years... It takes a little time but it was worth it for me...


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[bigbadhenchman]

What I do know is use Techtool Pro. There I set the techtool to save protection files on 4 different drives... If one crashes I can use techtool and the protection file that was stored on the other drive to revive the drive or file that got corrupted.. This has worked for me know for about 4 years... It takes a little time but it was worth it for me

Graet.
But compleetly uselss for my friend.

My question is, is there any way to fix files with corrupted resource forks.

[Drew Mazurek]

sounds like the files were recovered to a DOS drive. do they show up as UNIX files in OSX? You could try SoundHack to rebuild the forks.

[bigbadhenchman]

sounds like the files were recovered to a DOS drive. do they show up as UNIX files in OSX? You could try SoundHack to rebuild the forks.

Tried soundhack.
No luck.

[Doug Rider]

Try copying all the files to a Mac HFS+ formatted hard drive. Then you could use either
http://publicspace.net/ABetterFinder...pes/index.html
or
http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/
to fix creator and type attributes on the Mac formatted drive.

I like the entire "Better Finder Series" best.

[soul]

I've used File Buddy many times. It will fix the resource forks. You can convert and fix files at a time or a whole folder of files at once. So it should be a pretty quick fix. Its pretty inexpensive too.

Good luck,
Steve