Help needed on Mac

[kermit13sg]

Hi, I am so devastated. For the first time, I decide to use time machine on my Mac mini to do a backup to my external one terabyte sea gate hard drive.

I have about 400gb worth of music, photos and movies in the external drive. When I did the backup, the time machine erased all my data in the external hard drive. Leaving only the backup of my Mac in there.

I googled and found out that there will be a prompt prior to backing up but I swear, there was no prompt!!!!

Can anyone tech savvy enough to help me recover my data? Photos are precious, 8 years of it, holidays, kids performances, birthdays, you name it... It's all gone!!!!

[felix_fx2]

Find recovery software on osx to use.
You may not retrieve more then 05%

Next time use use timemachine on another partition or even better another drive.

My timemachine is on my NAS and usbdrive

[kermit13sg]

Find recovery software on osx to use.
You may not retrieve more then 05%

Next time use use timemachine on another partition or even better another drive.

My timemachine is on my NAS and usbdrive

sigh, i learn that now...thanks

[Black Bart]

Okay, I realized this advices is a month too late, but I just registered on aquatic quotient.com today!

First, power down that computer and don't use it again until you have your data recovery software of choice. Deleted files are not usually actually gone immediately; they're often just labeled by the system software as available for overwrite. If you stop using the computer now, you minimize the possibility of overwriting your important files.

Next I strongly recommend purchasing TechTool Pro 6 or Data Rescue 3 for Mac. I've used both and they both work. Personally, I felt more confident with Data Rescue 3. I've provided links for the publishers' websites, but you can probably get a better price on Amazon, MacConnection, or CDW. However, you may be able to purchase downloadable copies directly from the publisher. Sometimes, it's worth paying full price to have something now -- often data recovery qualifies as something you'd want now. However, if there is no hurry, go ahead and save yourself a few dollars and purchase the software from another venue.

http://www.micromat.com/techtoolpro
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

This is good stuff to have around just in case. I myself learned the hard way too.