DataLoss Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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 ...

Backups save the day after data loss

by TJ Luoma (Oct 13th, 2009)

About 13GB of data was accidentally deleted from my account on my Mac yesterday. Fortunately, due to an aggressive backup system, I was able to recover all of the files. I was trying to test out a tip sent to the TUAW team, which led me to log into (and out of) the "Guest" account several times. One ...

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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