RE: Retrieving overwritten text

["Lavenda, Robert H. " <rhlavenda>]

I wasn't very clear this morning--the point is that GoBack does recover files, but ONLY 
files that it has saved into the file it creates when it is installed. In other words, 
one cannot install GoBack AFTER files have been overwritten, lost, deleted, etc. and 
expect it to recover them. It can only recover files that it has already protected. 
Norton Utilities, however, can recover files "after the fact."

Rob

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Bialler [mailto:lb136@domain.hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:42 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
Subject: Re: Retrieving overwritten text


Perhaps the latest, Nortonized, version of Go Back is as you say (and I
very much suspect it is, as they also provide other utilities so why
would they also keep that function going in Go Back?), but my version,
which was bundled into my computer by Gateway does indeed recover prior
versions of files.

I should have thought of that.

Cheers anyhow!

 

"Lavenda, Robert H." wrote:
> 
> Please note that, while a true lifesaver, GoBack works by establishing a file on your 
> hard drive to which it then saves all changes made to the file system. I cannot imagine 
> working without it, but I do not believe it will help Enrique right now, since it is 
> not a file recovery program.
> 
> I agree with the recommendation for Norton, which I believe, still can work at the DOS 
> level to retrieve files or data from files when the entire file is not recoverable or 
> the File Allocation Tables are corrupted.
> 
> Rob
> 
> Robert H. Lavenda
> Professor and Director of Anthropology
> Director of Latin American Studies
> St. Cloud State University
> 320-255-3034
> lavenda@domain.hidden
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Bialler [mailto:lb136@domain.hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 7:54 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
> Subject: Re: Retrieving overwritten text
> 
> The software is called GoBack. It was formerly produced by Roxio, and
> has been sold to Symantek.
> 
> Here:
> 
> http://www.symantec.com/goback/

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