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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: January 05, 2012, 02:19 PM »
"The Book Of Secrets
Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: January 05, 2012, 09:56 AM »
Thanks for signalling this video.  Is there any CD/mp3 album someone could recommend from her ?  I could'nt find any in Amazon mp3 store.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... A/V converter
« on: December 25, 2011, 12:11 PM »
XmediaRecode is very powerful and has a wealth of profiles for many portable players.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange proposal from Macecraft
« on: December 15, 2011, 10:30 AM »
Jouni Vuorio (author&owner of Macecraft JV16) is Finnish, and likes to support good ideas:
...
Regarding the Finnish edistyspuolue; well, yes, it is registered as a political party, but...
The party's name is old but was abandoned by the original party who took a new name. There were 31 people at the "new" edistyspuolue's last meeting which also was their first meeting, 23 Oct 2011, when they started the new party. Their acclaimed goal is to secure freedom for each person. However, their written agenda still is this simple; they don't yet have a political program.

My concern is that I am sure many extremist parties and lobbyists also promote "freedom", so there is no way knowing who is behind unless you live in the corresponding country, and even so.

I wouldn't mind donating, but not to a polical party which I don't know which idea they really support.  "Freedom" is just too vague. IMHO.

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General Software Discussion / Strange proposal from Macecraft
« on: December 15, 2011, 03:31 AM »
Hi,

I received yesterday the following mail from Macecraft.  The trouble I have with it is that the "organization" they are referring to seems rather a political party than a regular non profit organization.  

What do you think ?

Excerpts of the mail below :

We are doing a very special Xmas promotion: Donate money (for example $10)
to a Finnish non-profit organization and you'll receive a fully working
license for jv16 PowerTools 2011, and the same license will also work with
the upcoming 2012 version.

The organization is called Edistyspuolue. It's a non-profit organization
which promotes and defends civil liberties in Finland.

You are entitled to participate because you have downloaded a free trial
version of our product and gave your email address.

You can donate either with PayPal or by wire transfer
1) To donate with PayPal, please send the donation to
<e-mail removed>

...

If you made a donation, please send an email to
<adress removed>@macecraft.com stating what name and email address you want
your license to be generated with and sent to. A license will be sent to
you via email within two business days of your donation (usually within a
few minutes).

Note: This promotion is valid only for 48 hours!

Thank you!
Best Regards,
Macecraft Software

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Farstone BF promo
« on: November 25, 2011, 05:37 PM »

confirmed

Thanks.  I'll probably retry on ... Cybermonday.  Or it's due to some kind of regional Ip filtering...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Farstone BF promo
« on: November 25, 2011, 06:44 AM »
http://www.farstone....BlackFriday-TRT.html
It's TotalRecovery Pro + Tools + RestoreIT 7 for around $50

Except that the link points to an empty cart on my side.  Anyone can reproduce this ?  Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special File Recovery Software
« on: November 23, 2011, 10:40 AM »
It would be interesting to see if using PhotoRec and a identifier for the DVB transport stream could recover it.

Plus it's something that can be tried without laying money on the line.

I might give it a go with the same 6.5GB ISO and see what happens.

Well, it's only been running for 18 minutes, (with currently over an hour to go), but PhotoRec has managed to recover ~26GB of files including two DVB-T MPG format files of 6.32GB and 10.2GB.  Both files seem to be complete and are playable - pretty impressive so far considering those two files must have been deleted at least a week ago.

ADDENDUM: After 2.5 hours it's recovered 6481 files, (txt, jpg, mpg, avi, javascript, png, gif, mp3, ogg and more), over 40GB of data.
It didn't pick out the test file I put on there, (DVD video ISO), possibly because the file identifiers it uses couldn't precisely match a specific signature - unlike the two big MPGs, which were actually DVB-T transport streams, (.ts).  I probably could have specified a custom signature but frankly, if it can recover the two large files, (which was the primary query: large file recovery), I mentioned above at over a week or so since deletion and having had data written to the drive in the meantime......

I give it: 2 tums up  :up:  :up:

Definitely something to try !  Thanks.

Addendum: : I just had a quick run of PhotoRec.  It did recover many files, but for most of them it's garbage within, just as an exemple, a 500 MB file is seen as a link (.lnk).  Still, if it recovery the desired file, it would be nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special File Recovery Software
« on: November 23, 2011, 01:58 AM »
Thanks @4wd for taking the time to investigate and for the very interesting links.  Got one answer from R-TT support forum.  Goto : http://forum.r-tt.co...eted-file-t6396.html

The manual inspection gives me reason to think I mght be able to recover it, or the next one I delete like this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special File Recovery Software
« on: November 22, 2011, 06:51 AM »
Hi again,

I did the following test : I copied a 8 GB file onto a 500 GB USB external HDD, standard NTFS formatted.  As expected, when I delete the test file and try to recover it, Active@FileRecoveryPro sees the deleted file, but with 0 size.  I will try GetDataBack & R-Studio, and I'll report here.

Edited : with GetDataBack, I see the deleted file, but size is 0 and it seems unrecoverable.  Trying with R-Studio... R-Studio does see a non zero file.  Cannot try it further without purchasing a license.  Will probably buy one because it does seem *very* powerful.  If I do and if I can recover the file, I'll let you know.  However, the size of the deleted file is slightly over the original one, so I suspect I won't recover an exact duplicate, kind of annoying.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special File Recovery Software
« on: November 22, 2011, 02:11 AM »
Thanks all for your quick replies.  GetBackData is one tool I didn't try, so I'll try it next time it happens (and it will, eventually, despite the nice tips from IainB, because at one point I will forget to use them...).  Regarding System restore, I forgot to mention the file was on an external USB drive, not monitored by SR.

Since the incident, I have reused the HDD to transfer other big files, so no use trying again.  The file was not worth spending more time.  It's just that NTFS seems to really well delete very big files, and this seemed strange.

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General Software Discussion / Special File Recovery Software
« on: November 21, 2011, 08:47 AM »
Hi,

Once again I lost a big file, a DVB-T recording of around 8GB, because I deleted it and emptied the trashcan.  When I realized my mistake, I tried immediately many recovery software, such as Recuva, but also the excellent Active@FileRecovery Pro and also FileScavenger, they all see the deleted file, but with a size of ... 0. Smaller deleted files (1-2 GB) show their original size before deletion.

It already happened to me once, that is I deleted a big file and no recovery tool seems able to recover it, because the seen size equals zero.  With smaller files, it works almost everytime (provided I act immediately).

Does anyone knows a file recovery software that also recovers "big" files, that was confronted to this issue, and found a solution ?

Thanks.

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What's the Best? / Re: Video Splitter: What's the best AND easiest?
« on: November 16, 2011, 10:07 AM »
I got a low cost license of Solveig Video Splitter.  Works usually well and is very easy to use.

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OK, but for first-time licensees, the non-discounted price is quite steep.  And it has also been raised since V5.

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How about a special offer for DC members ?

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Currently on http://www.easy-watermark-studio.com/ and up to 2011-11-11

Never used it so I cannot comment on quality/usefulness.

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Thanks for the info !

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Yep, currently, less than 0.18% achieved ! 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: boxed Defrag: $9.95
« on: October 22, 2011, 12:28 PM »
Using more than one defragger is usually counter productive (certainly in terms of speed) as they have their own strategies for file placement and so running competing progams just undo each other.

Not in that case with the right options :
- I use UD3 to sort directories and defrag files once in a while
- I use Stealth and Space options on O&O Defrag 15 on a daily basis

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: boxed Defrag: $9.95
« on: October 22, 2011, 06:35 AM »
If it is not a question why would anyone rely on a defragment tool that appears to have bugs in the released version?

I used to use the free version but it didn't seem to be nearly as good as PerfectDisk (at least not the way I had it setup) and the interface I found really confusing. Probably very flexible but at the end of the day most people want a defrag tool that is set it and forget it.

Over the years I have tried most defrag tools but I keep coming back to PerfectDisk (although I have stuck with version 11 which I prefer over version 12).

Well, the build 19 is just fine for me.  And I found no bug in it so far.  At least none serious enough to ditch it.   Currently, I am trialling O&O Defrag 15, which is much faster than the previous version, and I like it so far.  So I will probably use both in the future.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: boxed Defrag: $9.95
« on: October 21, 2011, 01:46 AM »

-eh... are you telling that I don't have to remove the newer build before installing the older?


Exactly, and so far so good !

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I've never understood why people go crazy with disk partitions. Some people seem to use them like one would use folders. There's no good reason I can think of to have a "movies" partition, a "music" partition, etc. 2 partitions, as 40hz said, boot and data, or at most 3, with boot, data, recovery/images. Of course keeping recovery/images on the same physical drive limits its applicability in the case of disaster. *Some* system problems can be recoverable that way (i.e. something that doesn't involve physical issues with the whole drive), but it's really better to keep sys images and recovery partitions on a separate drive IMO.
- Oshyan

There is one situation where an extra partition is useful, IMHO : game installation.  For instance, my Steam folder is currently 35 GB big.  I have a dedicated partition for that.  If I had installed the steam folder on my system disk, it would have made images much too big, for files I can re-download anytime.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: boxed Defrag: $9.95
« on: October 20, 2011, 10:47 AM »
I have not seen any errors from build 39.

These error messages appear always on some partitions.  There may be something wrong with them (metadata not fully compliant with NTFS standard for instance), but version 19 works fine with them.  The change of consolidate algorithm is also bothering me, so I decided to stay with this version.  In any cases, it's very easy to upgrade to build 39 and to revert to build 19, I just have to install the corresponding build, and settings are preserved.

I have not reported the "errors" to disktrix because I just don't feel like it, I spend already too much time using software that work, I don't want to add time for software that don't.  Unless it's critical.

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