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Inaccessible backups, and a dead laptop
LANGALIST
By Fred Langa
How can you repair what you can’t get at? Today’s column covers two problems caused by very different access issues.
In one case, a subscriber is locked out of her old, obsolete backup files; she can neither access nor delete them and thus cannot recover the huge chunk of disk space they occupy.
In another, a different subscriber needs to data-wipe (“sanitize”) the hard drive of a fatally damaged laptop. But how can he wipe the drive when the laptop won’t even turn on?
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.04.0 (2022-01-24).
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OS X Mavericks upgrade destroys data, reports Western Digital
Until Apple issues a workaround or patch, it would be very wise to avoid using any external hard drive, or any eSATA- or Thunderbolt-based peripherals, on Mavericks systems.
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