recovery

Hello,

I've accidently deleted a very important file... it was a .zip archive
type with a password on... well, I did a recovery thing, and I got it
back, but when I tried to open it it said the file is damaged/no
archive and all that...

Is there any way to get wot ever is working from it??? maybe by hex
editting or anything of that kind???

thanks

"Teddy379" <teddy379@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I've accidently deleted a very important file... it was a .zip archive
> type with a password on... well, I did a recovery thing, and I got it
> back, but when I tried to open it it said the file is damaged/no
> archive and all that...
>
> Is there any way to get wot ever is working from it??? maybe by hex
> editting or anything of that kind???
>
> thanks


here is something that might work

http://www.ziprecover.com/?rid=google&kid=zr0201

never tried it myself though

"Teddy379" <teddy379@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:313f2a18-5111-46d0-b406-1816a326a979@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I've accidently deleted a very important file... it was a .zip archive
> type with a password on... well, I did a recovery thing, and I got it
> back, but when I tried to open it it said the file is damaged/no
> archive and all that...
>
> Is there any way to get wot ever is working from it??? maybe by hex
> editting or anything of that kind???
>
> thanks

Seeing that it's very important, could you get it back from
your backup?

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
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>
> "Teddy379" <teddy379@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:313f2a18-5111-46d0-b406-1816a326a979@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've accidently deleted a very important file... it was a .zip archive
> > type with a password on... well, I did a recovery thing, and I got it
> > back, but when I tried to open it it said the file is damaged/no
> > archive and all that...
> >
> > Is there any way to get wot ever is working from it??? maybe by hex
> > editting or anything of that kind???
> >
> > thanks
>
> Seeing that it's very important, could you get it back from
> your backup?
>
>

LOL

"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
> news:eY4xVhocIHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Teddy379" <teddy379@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:313f2a18-5111-46d0-b406-1816a326a979@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I've accidently deleted a very important file... it was a .zip archive
>> > type with a password on... well, I did a recovery thing, and I got it
>> > back, but when I tried to open it it said the file is damaged/no
>> > archive and all that...
>> >
>> > Is there any way to get wot ever is working from it??? maybe by hex
>> > editting or anything of that kind???
>> >
>> > thanks
>>
>> Seeing that it's very important, could you get it back from
>> your backup?
>>
>>
>
> LOL

You'd be surprised how many people do actually have a
backup of an extremely important file, perhaps made some
time in the past, and forget about it when the panic sets in.
If not then it's the usual steep tuition fee they have to pay
for the basic lesson in backing up important files.

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
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>
> "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
> > news:eY4xVhocIHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> "Teddy379" <teddy379@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >>
news:313f2a18-5111-46d0-b406-1816a326a979@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I've accidently deleted a very important file... it was a .zip
archive
> >> > type with a password on... well, I did a recovery thing, and I got it
> >> > back, but when I tried to open it it said the file is damaged/no
> >> > archive and all that...
> >> >
> >> > Is there any way to get wot ever is working from it??? maybe by hex
> >> > editting or anything of that kind???
> >> >
> >> > thanks
> >>
> >> Seeing that it's very important, could you get it back from
> >> your backup?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > LOL
>
> You'd be surprised how many people do actually have a
> backup of an extremely important file, perhaps made some
> time in the past, and forget about it when the panic sets in.
> If not then it's the usual steep tuition fee they have to pay
> for the basic lesson in backing up important files.
>
>


One of my friends who has his own buisiness was up all night troublshooting
some customer
equipment and was way over-tired.

I stopped by in the morning and he was fooling with his computer...
then I heard heard him say something like : But I don't have a "J:" drive...
and before I could yell: "Don't do that!!!!"

He deleted it! (Well he certainly did not have a J: drive then...it was
his external USB drive)


His backup was about a week old, so it would not have been a complete
"end of the world" situation...but still a major dumb move.
At that point I told him *not* to do anything other than to go to bed...
and do *nothing* with the drive until he got some recovery software.

The next day he used Partition Magic and the drive was luckily recovered...
had he made any attempt to do something with the drive...he probably would
have been out of luck.

But it's amazing what happens when one panics.

One day I was working in a nuclear power plant *no it was not an emergency
situation*
but I was under an extreme amount of pressure. We were way behind on a major
project
and most of the company where I was employed for was working 17 hours a day
, 6 days a week to get the
project completed ASAP. (BTW: The delay was not our company's fault, it was
the utility itself, but that's another story.)
Anyway...I had to call my office from a pay phone. (This was back in the
days when cell phones were dash-board mounted)

Well, as I was saying...I was so tired and over-wrought that my mind blanked
out entirely and I could not remember my phone card credit
number... The only thing that entered my mind was our family's telephone
number back from when I was a kid!!!
Something I doubt I'd ever been able to recall if I tried!

well, I don't have a back up, and I don't want it to be my first
lesson lol

I did recover it but it's damaged... I searched my computer for the
file name, bec. i used to have a back up of it on all my drives ( C,
D, E and so on) but I couldn't find it...

sooo, well, I'm going to try the zip recovery thing, and partion
magic... if anyone has other solutions please let me know...

"Teddy379" <teddy379@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> well, I don't have a back up, and I don't want it to be my first
> lesson lol
>
> I did recover it but it's damaged... I searched my computer for the
> file name, bec. i used to have a back up of it on all my drives ( C,
> D, E and so on) but I couldn't find it...
>
> sooo, well, I'm going to try the zip recovery thing, and partion
> magic... if anyone has other solutions please let me know...


I'd give that zip recovery utility a try.
please post back and let us know if it worked

On Feb 20, 8:15 pm, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:
> "Teddy379" <teddy...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:41da1dc3-05af-41ed-b8ab-01ab112af5f0@q70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
> > well, I don't have a back up, and I don't want it to be my first
> > lesson lol
>
> > I did recover it but it's damaged... I searched my computer for the
> > file name, bec. i used to have a back up of it on all my drives ( C,
> > D, E and so on) but I couldn't find it...
>
> > sooo, well, I'm going to try the zip recovery thing, and partion
> > magic... if anyone has other solutions please let me know...
>
> I'd give that zip recovery utility a try.
> please post back and let us know if it worked

well I did try it but it like took forever and no out put, sooo, I
created a simple zip archive, I put in it an empty .txt file and
tested the program on that zip... well, the .txt file was recovered,
of coarse the archive wasn't damaged... then I encrypted the archive,
and repeated the test, same thing, it took forever and no out put.. I
think they have a bug with encrypted archives... my damaged archive is
encrypted and I do remember the password... any further help would be
appricaited a lot.. thanks

"Teddy379" <teddy379@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Feb 20, 8:15 pm, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:
> > "Teddy379" <teddy...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >
> >
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> >
> > > well, I don't have a back up, and I don't want it to be my first
> > > lesson lol
> >
> > > I did recover it but it's damaged... I searched my computer for the
> > > file name, bec. i used to have a back up of it on all my drives ( C,
> > > D, E and so on) but I couldn't find it...
> >
> > > sooo, well, I'm going to try the zip recovery thing, and partion
> > > magic... if anyone has other solutions please let me know...
> >
> > I'd give that zip recovery utility a try.
> > please post back and let us know if it worked
>
> well I did try it but it like took forever and no out put, sooo, I
> created a simple zip archive, I put in it an empty .txt file and
> tested the program on that zip... well, the .txt file was recovered,
> of coarse the archive wasn't damaged... then I encrypted the archive,
> and repeated the test, same thing, it took forever and no out put.. I
> think they have a bug with encrypted archives... my damaged archive is
> encrypted and I do remember the password... any further help would be
> appricaited a lot.. thanks


I'm out of ideas...
You may want to Google for zip repair utilities...

I know there are a lot of them...but don't know if any will work on your
file