![]() I'm not 100 sure I'll get any additional data beyond what I got, but it'd be useful to know if I can as we'll likely need to hire some people to do the bulk of the data transfer (I'm just doing the first 'binder' so I can work out the process needed) and I need to know if there's any hope for these CDs. Is there anything that anyone has actually had some success with? So I'm wondering if there is an actual REAL CD recovery program that works in OSX? So far I'm mostly finding snake oil. I wouldn't suspect this to work much differently than rsync. Score -1 out of 10.ĭisk Utility (built into OSX) - It's smart enough to tell me the partition is damaged, and helpful enough to suggest that I repair it, but not helpful enough to actually let me repair it (the button is greyed out). ![]() MiniTool Mac Data Recovery - This will scan a CD, and come up with a bunch of gibberish that doesn't even include the files that you can easily get off the CD. Stellar Phoenix - This at least acts like it's supposed to be able to recover data from a CD, but in practice it recovers less files than rsync. VirtualLab Data Recovery - Despite a few mentions on the web site, this doesn't appear to be able to recover from CDs at all. ![]() In testing a few CDs versus a few pieces of software out there here are the results: The catch is I can't find any working software that actually does anything of note to be this potential in depth process. I wrote a script that runs rsync to copy the files to a more suitable location and I can see when there's an error so I can I presumably run some more in depth process on the CDs that are damaged. To make things extra exciting, many of the CDs seem to only be properly readable on Macs (you can see the files on a PC, but you can't actually copy them) I'm good with a process for the good CDs. A s a surprise to no one, it turns out that about 20% of the CDs seem to have a problem with some unreadable data and about 5% can't be read at all! well, I'd say better protected, but just being written to CD-Rs isn't good enough to be called protected in the first place. ![]() If you do not know your session ID and password, but have purchased Quota, you should contact support.I recently discovered binders of very old CDs which have some data on it which likely isn't elsewhere and I have started a project to copy the contents to our server where it can be. You must be able to remember your session ID and password to create a new session file (be sure to write it down!). Recreate a lost/deleted VirtualLab™ Session File – Select this option if you have used VirtualLab™ but have lost or deleted your session file. You will be asked to navigate to the session file you wish to open. Load an previous VirtualLab™ Session File – Select this option to open an existing session file. Start a new VirtualLab™ Recovery – Select this option If this is the first time you have run VirtualLab™ or your demonstration session ID has expired (If you have a session for which you have purchased Quota and your session has expired, refer to the FAQs and Troubleshooting section for more information). To open a recovery session, select one of the following three choices on the Welcome screen:.Select the reason for using VirtualLab in this first screen and click ‘Next’.A Welcome Screen will appear after a few seconds with options of how to proceed. Double-click the application to launch it.If you are using OS X, the application can be found in the BinaryBiz VirtualLab™ folder found in your Applications folder (unless you moved it somewhere else). for your specific system (The MacOS X version will NOT run under MacOS 9.x and vice versa). Navigate to the folder on your hard drive containing the VirtualLab™ application.Quit all other applications if possible (you may leave a Web browser window open to view this manual or to order Session ordering after a drive scan).
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