Data Loss Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iPhoto '11 updated, still not up to par

by Mel Martin (Nov 5th, 2010)

It's a shame -- iPhoto is likely the most heavily used of all the iLife applications. There are simply more people taking digital pictures than there are using GarageBand or iMovie. iWeb, left languishing by Apple with few updates and no new features, has probably forced people to look elsewhere for ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Recovering iPhone data and media

by Erica Sadun (Oct 26th, 2009)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I'm from the Philippines and I would just like to ask for your help. I don't know if the news had reached you guys but there had been some massive flood lately in our country brought about by super typhoons storming over our land. Anyway, I own an iPhone and thank God I brought ...

TextEdit data loss concerns

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2006)

Over at MacOSXHints, Rob G. has posted a must-read article about possible data loss from TextEdit's Save dialog. The problem stems from TextEdit's (and Cocoa's) willingness to overwrite entire folders with text files. This data security hole seems to occur because "bundle" style files (which are ...

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