Look within Users folder on your (broken) system volume. Look in System Support and Library folders.
When I do recovery work, I just start at the first folder on the volume to be scavenged, and open all folders it encloses, looking for important stuff I want to recover.
Then on to the next folder and all folders it encloses, etc.
Time consuming, but it can pretty much restore you to where you were before the crash. Don't forget preference files for the apps you use frequently. They can be recovered and used to restore configurations you have previously set.
Remember that Disk Warrior only repairs/restores disk directories. In my experience TechTool Pro has helped recover when Disk Warrior would not. If you don't have TTP, you might want to consider adding it to your arsenal. YMMV of course (your mileage might vary).
On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Thomas Baker wrote:
It appears that OS-X crashed on me either because the internal hard drive
it resides on became damaged, or else X damaged the disk as it went down.
Either way, this hard drive is damaged. So damaged that Disk Warrior says
it can't be repaired, due to an "invalid number of allocation blocks,"
whatever that might be. Disk Utilities also says it can't fix it.
The good news is that I can still open up the disk and take things off of
it, so I'm now moving the important files on it to other drives.
My question is, what OS-X stuff should I salvage from the wreckage? Where
on this disk will I find all my Mail archives, my Safari bookmarks, my
Internet settings, etc?
In other words, what should I take off this disk so that when I install a
fresh copy of X on the other internal hard drive, I can put this stuff into
it so that my new copy of X will look like the old one I've been using?
Thanks much,
Tom
Regards,
Wayne Clodfelter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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