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Early this morning I released Totus Copy. Totus Copy is a utility that was born out of necessity. As some of you may know, I work as an Apple Certified Technician. I see a lot of failing and plain out dead hard drives in my line of work. I also spend a lot of time painfully pulling data off failing hard drives.
Once we get a hard drive showing in the bus, there is still a lot of work left to do. OS X doesn't have what is referred to as resumable copying. What this means is that if a file fails in the middle of a copy, the entire copy will fail. This is all well and good for normal use, but for copying data where you expect 20% or more of it to fail, it is a total pain in the butt. You can spend many hours locked in front of a system.
What Totus Copy does is solve this critical problem. If a file fails, Totus Copy will attempt to retrieve as much data as possible. It will then move onto the next file and continue the process. Many technicians know the pain of going directory-by-directory trying to salvage as much data as possible. Totus Copy makes this a problem of the past.
While writing and field-testing Totus Copy over the last several months, an impressive feature set was developed that makes this software a very practical and powerful data recovery tool. It has the ability to skip over invisible files or applications and you can set it to target specific directories or files of a certain type. It will never transfer a bundle or a directory rather it recreates them. Totus Copy will never give up and has been known to grab working copies of files that other data recovery tools left behind.
Totus Copy will unquestionably save data that would otherwise been lost.
Welcome to my new site layout, I know it not very exciting yet but hopefully with some content getting added in it will be a lot better. Let me take a moment of your time and explain what is going on here.
This is not quite a developers blog and not quite a personal blog. I have never felt the need for either to be honest with you. However I can muster up the need for half of each which is what I plan on doing here. So not only will I be writing about the software I am working and about programming in general but I will also be talking about life, work, play and all that other good stuff.
If you have ever been to our old site you will notice that we have changed... well everything. I decided to go with a much lighter background color and a much more minimalist layout, I removed a number of sections and rewrote just about everything else. It still needs a lot of work but I think it is coming along very nicely.
Now this isn't saying that I had a problem with the old layout, I really liked it but it was time for a change. I still have to give my respects to the web designer that made it, but this one feels more personal since I took that giant leap from C++ to HTML. Unlike most programmers I feel more at home with application programming then I do with the "simpler" web programming. I know I will get a lot of emails about that comment but its a very blunt generalization.
Thanks for stopping by I look forward to seeing you again.
