Archive for May, 2010

How to wipe Mac OS X file slack

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

For wiping mac hard drive used and free space disk utility is used. But, disk utility is to capable enough to wipe file slack. File slack refers to the area left out after files data end and till file system block is finished. As file system is divided into blocks of finite sizes. In hard drive, file slack occupies almost gigabytes of information and this area is not cleaned with free space. This, means wipe mac done with disk utility similar to windows utility eraser (for windows OS) is incomplete.

Owing to this, wipe mac software is required for clean wipe mac; it thoroughly overwrites data including free and slack space. It removes junk files, install, console and other unused application logs. Browser history, cookies, temporary files are all removed such that recovering them is not at all possible. Actual process going on here is overwriting hard disk data with binary digits 0 and 1 as per the algorithm selected. Also, is supported by Mac OS X tiger 10.4, leopard 10.5 and snow leopard 10.6.

Can’t import and Scanpst fails to recognize PST file

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

MS Outlook’s PST file is often moved and copied to external storage media like DVD, CD etc. so that it can be restored later. During this process it is recommended to keep the MS Outlook application close otherwise the PST file might gets corrupted. Scanpst.exe tool is used to repair the damaged PST file but the PST file size should be below 2GB. But there are situations encountered where this tool has failed to repair the corrupted PST file and you need to import the PST file in order to access it.

Let’s consider a realistic scenario where MS Outlook copies the Outlook PST file to the CD and later reinstalled a new hard drive. After that user have replaced the newly created PST file with the one which is copied to the CD. But when user tried to access the PST through MS Outlook the application doesn’t recognize the PST file. When the saved PST is imported it gives an error message that says that the file is not valid personal folder. This behavior from the PST file clearly indicates the PST corruption.

To rectify this issue and repair PST file when Scanpst tool is used it came with an error message which says –

The Inbox Repair Tool does not recognize the file file_path.pst. No information can be recovered ”.

So, now the only way to rectify these issues and to repair PST files any third party PST Repair software needs to be used. The tool will thoroughly scan the entire PST file and look for all the bugs and rectifies it efficiently.

Missing iPhoto Library Due to Broken Faces

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Very often users complain about the Face corruption issues particularly while working on large iPhoto libraries on Mac. Faces fail to categorize images which is causing huge issues for the users. To understand the situation let’s consider a scenario where when user clicks on the name of the toolbar the photos comes with the full size. User may find two options at the bottom, first is Add Missing Faces using which user can name many faces. But when users go to the cork board it says no faces found followed by an intro screen which is not the same as mentioned in the tutorial.

In this situation the Faces need to be scanned in the iPhoto Library. But doing this will loose the entire work done with the faces. The steps that user need to go through are as follows –

  • Quit iPhoto
  • Go to your Pictures Folder or where the library is actually kept
  • Right Click on it and from the resulting menu section select the “Show Package Contents”. A Finder window will open and the Library will be exposed
  • Find these files: face_blob.db and face.db
  • Move these to trash
  • Now make no changes and restart iPhoto
  • Then allow it to complete the face scan again.

In most of the cases after performing the above mentioned steps face corruption issue gets resolved, but if it doesn’t then the only way to resolve the issue is by using iPhoto Library Recovery software which will effectively resolve the issue in seconds.

How to resolve MS Outlook Error 0×8007000E?

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

MS Outlook stores all its data in a separate file called PST (Personal Storage Table). But this PST file is very subjective to corruption and there are endless reasons due to which the PST file gets corrupted. Some of the reasons are like virus attacks, network errors, unexpected crashes, application issues and so on. The typical symptom of the PST corruption is shown when user tries to perform any work in MS Outlook application and error messages are thrown in this process. In most of the cases the PST files gets corrupted and data stored in it gets lost. In case the backup is not available then it is really very hard to get the lost files again. At that point of time PST Repair software is used which effectively repairs the PST file and recovers the lost and missing files from it.

Like suppose, while sending or receiving email messages in MS Outlook below mentioned error messages are thrown –

Sending and Receiving reported error (0×8007000E): Out of memory or system resources. Close some windows or programs and try again.

The above error message is thrown when MS Outlook encounters any of the following issues –

  • Damaged Mapi32.dll file.
  • Inbox contains corrupted error messages.
  • Outlook profile is damaged or corrupted.

So, in order to resolve this error Scanpste.exe tool can be used but if it fails to repair the PST file then in order to resolve the issue PST Repair software need to be used which effectively resolves this 0×8007000E error message and recovers the lost and missing PST files in a safe and secure location.

Mac OS X Data Recovery Software

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

The data stored in the computer hard drive is a significant part of our personal and professional life. If you are loosing your data then it may a significant loss in business. In Mac OS X operating system, system freeze or hang is situations where you are not allow accessing any application. Sometimes your system completely stops responding and you need to shut down improperly. There are many internal and external factors caused of this data loss situation like software malfunction, virus infection, natural disaster etc.

Data loss is one of the most frustrating conditions for Mac users. In order to solve this problem you need to perform data recovery process so that you can get your lost data. Mac Data Recovery software is one of the best recovery tools. This software enables the users to recover the lost data from numerous problem including software malfunction, virus infection etc.

Macintosh file recovery software extracts data and files from the corrupted and formatted hard drive. This software uses effective and advance algorithm to recover data from the damaged hard drive. It perform deep scan, storage methods for recovery. It allows any one to perform recovery task because it is simple and completely user friendly software.

Can’t move the PST items after upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007!

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

After upgrading from outlook 2003 to outlook 2007, you will notice that every time when you are trying to move the item from an existing Pst to the other, then this operation can’t be succeeded. While doing this you can also get the following error message: “Cannot move the items. You don’t have appropriate permissions to perform this operation.”

This error may be due to insufficient or incorrect permissions, outlook Pst is damaged or outlook profile is damaged.

Locate the pst file, and then check the appropriate file permissions after right clicking it. Remake an outlook profile and also attach an original Pst file. If a problem remains then it confirms Pst damage in many cases. Run an inbox repair tool which is also known as Scanpst.exe, so that corrupted pst files can be repaired. If Pst again remains corrupted then you can use the third party free pst repair program.

Get your images retrieved with the use of Digital Picture Recovery

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Digital Picture Recovery is one of the effective Photo Recovery Software used for recovering the entire accidentally lost and deleted photos. This particular image recovery also makes a repairing of entire corrupt picture files. This software can be easily used by any user as this is user friendly and doesn’t require any technical knowledge to handle it. As many people prefer using digital camera and they do save lots of pictures in them. But because of some case they can get lost their files.

The damage of storage medias, attack of viruses, accidental formatting of saved medias, power attacks are some general issues that do lets cause damages within the pictures. So for making it completely recover from these issues it’s necessary to make use of Digital Picture Recovery. This particular software can make a complete retrieval of all images files as well as music files. This supports all file formats. All users can make its efficient use and do get back the files with the earlier quality.

This recovery tool does support all USB and CD Drives. The tool very well maintains the quality of image files. You can easily get the free version of the software, so use it with following all the recovery steps and make saving of the pictures without any corruption in it.

Make a backup of music by iPod Backup tool

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

iPod is getting very popular these days and now many users like to have an iPod with them. This is one of the finest portable players used for listening music and even you can have pictures saved in your iPod. As there are many utilities of the iPod but you must make a proper check on all the saved files of iPod. There stay the chances of accidental deletion or even loss of files. No one wants to get lost their files but if you are going to give your iPod for repairing than it can be made formatted and files can lost.

To stay away with such situations of file lost a backup is an important solution for iPod files. With iPod Backup tool user can do the backing up of entire picture and videos and all your audio files. This tool do acts in a professional way and make a perfect backup of the saved files. The process is also very easy. You just need to connect your iPod with your computer and run the software. Than all the contents get appeared within the categories, you can either choose for full backup or either any particular files. Now click on the backup button and all files can be backed up in your system.

Therefore, get an efficient backup tool with you and make possible the saving of files from all loss and corruption situations.

Retrieval of damage mdf files with using MDF Repair Tool

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Want to get back the entire accidentally lost mdf files? Is your SQL Database files are not getting accessed properly? The user who is coming across with such situation would definitely want to have an immediate recovery solution for their entire database. On such a situation the error messages can also get appeared on the computer screen such as “Table error: Page P_ID with object ID 0_ID”, Could not find a table or object named ‘%.*ls’ Check sysobjects’ and many more messages.

To get rid with these messages one is needed to make use of the mdf repair tool as this is the powerful and most efficient too. This effectively get recover all types of sql database whether accidentally deleted, corrupted or even lost because of unusual happenings. With using this great software user can get back his lost all table entities such as views, rules, triggers, stored procedures an also entire primary keys, foreign keys, Unique keys, Check constraints etc.

This is on of the effective repair tool as this is user friendly and thus can be used by all users. With following all the procedures of repair and recovery you can do make repairing of entire sql files and folders. Thus make use of this great tool to get the entire lost and deleted data back.

Fix for error “the iPod cannot be synced. The required file is locked’

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

No doubt, iPod is a great portable multimedia player which everyone likes to have. Still certain limitations do exist in it. Generating error while sync with iTunes, being the most common problem which every use faces once while. As there is no certainty for the problem to take place, it is always worth a keep an updated backup of iPod data to avoid troublesome data loss situation.

For resolving the problem taking place in the iPod, the only option is to restore to default settings. In the process data is lost, so you will need iPod recovery tool to restore data, if backup does not exists.

Consider a case, in which you try to sync iPod using iTunes but instead of the process to go on, an error message “the iPod cannot be synced. The required file is locked.” is shown. Also afterwards it is not actually possible to access data and files from the iPod.

It happens so because read/write function cannot be performed by iTunes, may be due to-

• Corruption of database due to error in syncing
• Corruption of the physical media
• Library is locked with read-only attribute

You may once again continue the process after removing read only settings and checking errors from properties- tools. Continued problems makes restoring iPod from iTunes necessary that will delete data. Further you may use iPod data recovery software that has the capability to restore entire data, play lists etc with original order, rating etc maintained. Also, is able to work, with different types of iPod enabling data retrieval possible in all case that includes lost, deleted, formatted and crashed iPod.