Recovering files - Where to turn?

[syncrofly]

   

My wife uses an Adobe product that barfed somehow in top of our photos directory in the Terastation NAS.  It appears as though the file path was in the midst of changing or being deleted, but the underlying files are still there (the storage % used is the same). 

 

I'm not a linux hacker, but our life's photos were on there without backup (i know, i need another terastation).

 

Anyone have recommendations on where to turn for a repair.  Whether a program or a service?

 

I live in San Francisco.  Thanks for the help.

[Paul]

a good recovery program is UFS Explorer,

search the forum for UFS Explorer

[syncrofly]

   

Paul,

 

Thanks for turning me in the right direction.  UFS seems like a goood start, but looks like I need to take out the hard disks individually and reconstruct the partitions in some native way in order to get at folders whose file path has disappeared.  I'm a little intimidated by the prospect.

 

Am I mistaken in how that software works?  In an ideal world I'd go to a terastation network folder and scan for removed files with some WYSWYG search window ...... am I just being unrealistic?

 

The odd thing is the file storage size is identical to what it was before the file path seemingly disappeared.  terastation/share/user/photos ..... just gone.

 

I'm a laptop guy and a bit of a guts o the machine newbie..... so not sure individually connecting these drives to a motherboard of some kind is going to work for me.  Is turning to an expensive specialist the next best route?

 

Thanks again,

 

Kelly

[Paul]

Try to contact one of the listed below.  They will be able to help as well

 

DataTech Laboratories Inc.
5650 Greenwood Plaza Blvd
Suite 114
Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Ph: 303.770.3282
Toll Free: 888.288.3282
Fax: 303.770.3285

http://www.datatechlab.com/" title="http://www.datatechlab.com" class="external free" target=_blank>http://www.datatechlab.com

 

DriveSavers, Inc.
400 Bel Marin Keys Blvd.
Novato, CA  94949

800.440.1904
415.382.2000 international
415.225.0082 cell
415.382.9030 fax

http://www.drivesavers.com/" title="http://www.drivesavers.com" class="external free" target=_blank>http://www.drivesavers.com

 

RAID Recovery Labs LLC
7744 Halleys Dr
Littleton, CO 80125
800-892-8302

http://www.raidrecoverylabs.com/" title="http://www.raidrecoverylabs.com" class="external free" target=_blank>http://www.raidrecoverylabs.com

 

[Paul]

You can also try to FTP into the Box.  If you can still see the share folder in the Web interface then enable FTP.

 

you can try to FTP to your data (no quotes)  "FTP://ip_of_nas"

 

[Wayne_S]

   Syncrofly, Did you sort out your problem? I now have the same problem, the drive shows that 30% is taken up with files but all my shared folders are showing empty. I tried UFS but it did not work on a NAS via a laptop. It looks like the drive will need attaching to a PC, did you take up this option?