Mac File Recovery In Case Of Desktop Database Corruption
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2009In Mac OS X, the Desktop Database (Desktop DB) is a collection of invisible files, which store the location information of all the files on your Mac OS X hard drive. Because this database contains the location of all the files on hard drive, if it gets damaged or its size grows too large, many issues might take place. In such cases, whenever you try to access a file or start an application, the process halts with an error message stating that the desktop database is corrupt and you need to rebuild it or delete and recreate it. In such situations, you can not access your mission critical data from Mac OS X hard drive and come across serious data loss situations. In order to sort out these data loss circumstances, you need to opt for Mac File Recovery using using appropriate methods.
In a practical scenario, when you try to run any application using Finder or attempt to access files from hard drive, you may receive the below error message:
“-1305 desktopDamagedErr The desktop database has become corrupted - the Finder will fix this, but if your application is not running with the Finder, use DTReset or DTDelete”
With this error message, all of your hard drive data and applications rendered inaccessible and you face data loss circumstances. In order to get your data back in these cases, you are required to find out the cause of this behavior and go for file recovery Mac by resolving it.
Cause
As stated in the above error message, this problem occurs due to corruption to the Desktop Database. It could be due to improper system shutdown, virus infection, system data structure conflicts, grown size of database and so forth.
Resolution
To fix this issue, rebuilding of the Desktop Database is required. Follow underwritten steps to carry out this task:
ØRestart you Mac OS X computer and press Option and Command keys and hold them throughout the time of startup.
ØOn the startup process completes, you will a dialog box with “Are you sure you want to rebuild the Desktop file” message.
ØRelease the Option and Command keys and click “OK” button in dialog box.
If the above method does not work, then you need to use DTDelete command to delete the database and recreate it. It will remove all the files from hard drive and cause data loss. In such cases, Mac Recovery comes for you help to retrieve lost data in most of the cases.
It is potential through third party applications, known as Mac file recovery tools. They use high-end scanning algorithms to carry out in-depth scan of the hard drive and retrieve all of the missing, lost or inaccessible data. These software are completely safe and easy to use.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is an easy to use software to handle all types of Mac data loss issues. It supports data recovery from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system volumes. This read-only application is designed for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3.9