- Hi John, I had a similar problem - If you cant get it recovered by a reputable company - I was scammed so beware of those claiming to be rapid data recovery specialists - get a number of testimonials before parting with your drive. I hrealise that all my files were indexed by google desktop and that it should be possible from teh index (As long as you selected not to delete deeted files from teh index etc.) and so you could by careful searching get a picture of what was there - Indeed if you had teh time it should be possible to rebuild up at least the content of all files indexed. Do a few searches - I was hoping to get it all back but did not have the time to spend on the project. Time is so precious and limited... Here is a link - or you may have to search through the index - but the API's are there its just implementing the program to do it.
Here is the posting - sorry to duplicate it but I cant locate teh originals, just gone through my emails. - Latest SDK to permit text recovery of content from indexed Files after Multiple Disk failure<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&shva=1#138bc81890890f0d_group_thread_0>[3 Updates] Latest SDK to permit text recovery of content from indexed Files after Multiple Disk failure<http://groups.google.com/group/google-desktop-developer/t/39f3d0751f4d633a> Frankie Jul 24 04:11AM -0700 Hi, I had Desktop running on the machine where all files were lost on the main data drive (Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB) alas the backup and archive drives all failed and the disk recovery company says there all unrecoverable. But I noticed that Google Desktop permits a preview of file contents Text only is possible for all files. I can cut and paste this but it is tedious. What I want to do is to produce an app using the index which for all files on the now failed drive to go through the index and place the text into another disk with same file names. This will give me at least all the docs and text files. Does anyone have the latest SDK before the desk top was shut down? This is the only way I can think of to recover my data content. Perhaps there is already a gadget that did this - if so can someone tell me how I can get it? Many thanks "Stefan vd [API Guru]" Jul 24 04:13AM -0700 Google Desktop is discontinued, the last update was in May 2010. Read more on the official blog page: http://googledesktop.blogspot.com Kind Regards, Stefan vd On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:11:42 PM UTC+2, Frankie wrote: "Stefan vd [API Guru]" Jul 24 07:00AM -0700 Hi, Good news: I got the SDK and Google Desktop software saved on my code.google project: http://code.google.com/p/stefanvd/downloads/list Latest version from september 2011. GoogleDesktopSetup.exe Google Desktop Sep 2011 1.9 MB GD_SDK.zip Google Desktop Sep 2011 4.3 MB note: Have you try to replace a hard disk platter with a other hard disk platter (same version, same TB and type) This will work mostly. Kind Regards, Stefan vd Thank you so much - now all I need to do is understand the API architecture - is their an overview doc some where? Ive found a few code snippets, just need to understand what I am trying to do and how it maps on to the api.. I am not sure if everything is exposed although the web page must have implicit callls so that d=should give me a clue... On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:00:09 PM UTC+1, Stefan vd [API Guru] wrote: > > Hi, > > Good news: > I got the SDK and Google Desktop software saved on my code.google project: > http://code.google.com/p/stefanvd/downloads/list > > Latest version from september 2011. > GoogleDesktopSetup.exe Google Desktop Sep 2011 1.9 MB > GD_SDK.zip Google Desktop Sep 2011 4.3 MB > > note: > Have you try to replace a hard disk platter with a other hard disk platter > (same version, same TB and type) > This will work mostly. > > Kind Regards, > Stefan vd > > On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:11:42 PM UTC+2, Frankie wrote: >> >> Hi, I had Desktop running on the machine where all files were lost on the >> main data drive (Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB) alas the backup and archive >> drives all failed and the disk recovery company says there all >> unrecoverable. >> >> But I noticed that Google Desktop permits a preview of file contents Text >> only is possible for all files. I can cut and paste this but it is tedious. >> >> What I want to do is to produce an app using the index which for all >> files on the now failed drive to go through the index and place the text >> into another disk with same file names. >> >> This will give me at least all the docs and text files. >> >> Does anyone have the latest SDK before the desk top was shut down? >> >> This is the only way I can think of to recover my data content. >> >> Perhaps there is already a gadget that did this - if so can someone tell >> me how I can get it? >> >> Many thanks >> > Stefan vd [API Guru] > via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=1311182> googlegroups.com 30 Jul to google-desktop. The API doc was online.... On my computer i can't find nothing about a API PDF. Because there was a PDF file that include a overview of the API for Google Desktop. Also i found this http://code.google.com/p/google-desktop-sdk/downloads/list But no API doc. Kind Regards, Stefan To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-desktop-developer/-/3_7_3Zh8MTUJ. Laurynas Biveinis 30 Jul to google-desktop. > Thank you so much - now all I need to do is understand the API architecture > - is their an overview doc some where? The GoogleDesktopAPI.idl (part of the SDK) comments are almost the docs, IIRC. Then samples/search/ . There is also an HTML doc, dated to 2005, that is a part of GDS API .NET wrapper project (originally by Manas Tungare, later maintained by me): download https://code.google.com/p/gds-dot-net/downloads/detail?name=gds-dot-net-0.4.zip&can=2&q= , it is in doc/developerguide.html. On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:21:18 AM UTC, John Ward wrote: > > My external Western Digital USB MyBook drive has failed. I don't exactly > recall all of what was on the drive, and want to find out the names of the > files (hopefully) from the Google Desktop index (if they have not been > deleted from the cached index already). > > Anyone got any tools? I have tried to using the search syntax to show > files on the L:\ drive but have not had any luck getting that working. > > I need to find out if I am OK with what has been lost, or if I need to pay > the pony and send the drive for professional recovery. > > Can anyone help me? > > Cyberdude > John Ward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Desktop Developer Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-desktop-developer/-/GdkUoAoYQ7MJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
