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From: teler@cs.huji.ac.il (Eyal Teler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: UnDelete 1.02
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: 16 Aug 1994 23:25:39 GMT
Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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Keywords: disk, file recovery, public domain
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PRODUCT NAME
UnDelete v1.02
[MODERATOR'S NOTE: This review was updated on August 17, 1994.
Search for the text "[UPDATE:" to find updated information.
-Dan]
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
A very fast undelete program for single files.
[UPDATE: The program is available on the Aminet ftp sites in
the file /pub/aminet/disk/salv/UnDelete.lzh.]
AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
Name: ASWare
Address: t.a.v. Ekke Verheul
Postbus 2521
3000 CM Rotterdam
The Netherlands
LIST PRICE
Public domain.
SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
None that I know of. It was developed on an AmigaDOS 2.04 machine
and works fine on my AmigaDOS 1.3 A500.
COPY PROTECTION
None.
MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
Amiga 500, 2MB Fast RAM, 1MB Chip RAM
A590 with 100MB Fujitsu SCSI hard drive
Kickstart 1.2, Workbench 1.3, ARP
INSTALLATION
The archive contains an Installer script. However, I did the simple
thing and just copied the command to C: (which is what the Installer does).
REVIEW
Undelete is a small (15K) CLI program that lets you undo the effects
of a Delete command. If you've deleted the file 'myfile', just enter
'undelete myfile', and it will reappear. You can also undelete empty
directories this way.
I was quite amazed by the speed of this program. Undeleting is
almost as fast as deleting. This easily makes this program an invaluable
tool for recovering files you deleted by mistake. It's miles better than
using a disk recovery tool which scans the disk for deleted files.
Note that you can't undelete files in RAM:, which is quite logical.
Also, don't try to undelete a file you didn't delete. UnDelete apparently
tries to scan the disk. Still, it's always possible to stop it with Ctrl-C.
DOCUMENTATION
It explains how to use the command and gives a list of error
messages with their meaning. I didn't need more than this.
LIKES
I love the speed and simplicity.
DISLIKES AND SUGGESTIONS
I don't like what the program does when you undelete a file
you didn't delete. I'd prefer a simple message that no such file was
deleted.
[MODERATOR'S NOTE: I suspect this is not possible to do. If the
program does not scan the whole disk, how can it be 100% sure that
the file was not deleted? Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
- Dan]
COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS
There are several programs which can undelete files, but they
usually work by scanning the disk, which takes a lot of time. This is the
first program I've seen which can simply undelete a file.
BUGS
You can't undelete a file in a partition with an odd number of
sectors. It's a problem shared by other disk utilities (such as FixDisk),
and is apparently caused by a wrong calculation of the root block (if I
remember the net discussion correctly).
VENDOR SUPPORT
I haven't contacted the author. No e-mail address, sadly.
WARRANTY
Hey, it's a PD program.
CONCLUSIONS
This is a must have. I won't give UnDelete full marks simply
because it has a bug which prevents me from using it on 2 of my 3
partitions.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright 1994 Eyal Teler. All rights reversed (hey, that's
what happens after writing a reverse compiler).
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Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews
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