Tri-Edre TrashMagic 1 Operating instructions

Brand: Tri-Edre

Model: TrashMagic 1

Type: Operating instructions

Tri-Edre TrashMagic 1 is a useful tool to protect your data from accidental deletion. Once installed, it runs in the background monitoring your Trash and automatically creates a copy of all items placed in it. This way, you can recover any data, even days or weeks after emptying the Trash. With TrashMagic, you can adjust the time data is preserved in the cache. You can activate or deactivate the protection at any time, and the TrashMagic menu allows you to easily check the status of the protection.

TrashMagic

Version 1

USERS GUIDE

Your Serial Number: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Licensing and Copyright Agreement

Except as permitted under copyright law, no part of the TrashMagic program (the «Software»)

or this user guide (the «Guide») may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means

without the prior written permission of TRI-EDRE.

The Software, and this Guide, are licensed only for individual use on a single computer. You

are permitted to make working copies of the Software, solely for your own use. Only one copy

(original or working) may be in use at any time.

If you ever sell, lend or give away the original copy of the Software, all working copies must also

be sold, lent or given to the same person, or destroyed.

Limited Warranty

TRI-EDRE warrants to you that the Software will perform substantially in accordance with the

documentation for the ninety (90) day period following the date of delivery of the Software to

you. If the Software fails to meet the speciﬁcations of the warranty set forth above, TRI-EDRE’s

liability and your exclusive remedy will be replacement of the CD or a reasonable effort to

make the product meet the above warranty speciﬁcation. Except for the above express limited

warranties, TRI-EDRE makes and you receive no warranties or conditions, express, implied,

statutory or in any communication with you, and speciﬁcally disclaims any implied warranty

of non-infringement, merchantability or ﬁtness for a particular purpose. TRI-EDRE does not

warrant that the operation of the program will be uninterrupted or error-free.

In no event will TRI-EDRE be liable for any loss of use, loss of proﬁts, interruption of business,

or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind, however caused and

under any head of liability, arising out of use of or in connection with the Software.

Trademarks

TrashMagic is a trademark of TRI-EDRE.

Apple, Macintosh and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc, registered in the United

States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

TRI-EDRE

22 Place de l’Église - BP 111

83510 LORGUES (FRANCE)

Phone +33 4 9810 1050

Fax +33 4 9810 1055

Web site: www.tri-edre.fr • www.tri-edre.com

Email address : [email protected] • [email protected]

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Table of Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5

Welcome! ................................................................................................................... 5

Overview .....................................................................................................................5

Thank you for registering .............................................................................................. 5

Updates ..................................................................................................................... 5

Installation .................................................................................................................. 5

Uninstalling ................................................................................................................. 5

Launching and Registering the Software ......................................................................... 6

Technical support ........................................................................................................ 6

Contacts ..................................................................................................................... 6

Overview ............................................................................................................... 7

Components of TrashMagic .......................................................................................... 7

Protection ................................................................................................................... 7

Recover data ..............................................................................................................7

MainWindow .......................................................................................................... 8

Information area .......................................................................................................... 8

Start and Stop the Protection ................................................................................. 9

TrashMagic Menu ........................................................................................................ 9

TrashMagic Settings ............................................................................................. 10

General Settings ........................................................................................................ 10

Cache Settings .......................................................................................................... 11

Recover Data ....................................................................................................... 12

Recover data ............................................................................................................12

Data presentation ...................................................................................................... 13

Search in the cache .................................................................................................. 14

Empty the cache ....................................................................................................... 14

F.A.Q. .................................................................................................................. 15

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Introduction

Welcome!

Thank you for purchasing TrashMagic !

TrashMagic is the quick and simple way to protect the data that you accidentally erased

in the Trash.

Overview

TrashMagic protects your Trash by copying all ﬁles and folders moved to the Trash

into a safe place. Thus, you can restore any data, even days or weeks after emptying

the Trash.

NOTE! TrashMagic runs only under Mac OS X (10.3 and more).

Thank you for registering

A registration card is included in the software package, and a registration page is availa-

ble from our web site. Please complete and submit the form to enable your access to tech-

nical support and timely notiﬁcation of updates and product news from TRI-EDRE.

Updates

Visit our web site at http://www.tri-edre.com to ensure you are always running the most

up-to-date version of TrashMagic. Updates can be downloaded directly from the site

using your assigned serial number. There is no charge for updates to the same main

version number—your TrashMagic 1 license includes all updates from 1.0.1 through

1.9.9 as they become available.

Installation

Simply drag the TrashMagic application from the CD-ROM, or the disk image you

downloaded, to your Applications folder. Please read the Read Me ﬁle (if present) in the

downloaded disk image for the latest information about TrashMagic.

Uninstalling

To completely remove TrashMagic from your hard drive, select the Uninstall item in the

Special menu. Once done, quit TrashMagic and move the TrashMagic application to the

Trash. All data related to TrashMagic, including the cache, will be deleted.

CAUTION! After uninstalling, the ﬁles cannot be anymore recovered, as the cache

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is emptied.

Launching and Registering the Software

Double-click the application icon to launch TrashMagic. At ﬁrst launch, you will be

asked to enter your Administrator password.

Enter your serial number at the prompt (sent to you by email, or located on a sticker

on your CD) to activate all of the features of TrashMagic. Be sure to keep your serial

number in a safe place.

Technical support

First of all, you should examine this manual, and the FAQ at the end of this manual. The

latest FAQ is available on our web site.

If you do not ﬁnd the answer to your questions, free technical support can be accessed by

email, fax or phone. Please have your serial number and software version number handy

before calling, and be sitting in front of your computer with TrashMagic running.

Contacts

Please contact TRI-EDRE directly if you have comments, problems or questions about

TrashMagic, this user guide or the TRI-EDRE web site, or require additional licenses

or a site license.

TRI-EDRE

22 Place de l’Église - BP 111

83510 Lorgues (France)

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Phone: +33 4 98 10 10 50

Fax: +33 4 98 10 10 55

Web site: http://www.tri-edre.fr or http://www.tri-edre.com

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Overview

TrashMagic protects the data deleted in the Trash.

Under Mac OS X, once the Trash is emptied, ﬁles are practically unrecoverable, regar-

dless the tool you are using.

Once installed, TrashMagic permanently scans the Trash and automatically creates a

copy of all items placed in the Trash. TrashMagic allows you to recover at any time ﬁles

accidentally deleted, including days or weeks after the Trash was emptied.

With TrashMagic, you can adjust the time data are preserved in the cache.

Components of TrashMagic

TrashMagic is constuted of:

• a protection engine running in background and copying to a special cache the ﬁles

moved in the Trash.

• the TrashMagic application, where you set the options and recover the data.

• the TrashMagic menu, to easily activate or deactivate the protection, and that dis-

plays the status of the protection.

Protection

The protection can be activated or deactivated at any time.

When the protection is active, all ﬁles and folders moved to the Trash are automaticaly

copied in the TrashMagic cache, and can be recovered at any time, even days or weeks

after the Trash was emptied (depending of the settings).

When the protection is deactivated, data placed in the Trash are no more copied in the

cache. Meanwhile, the contents of the cache is preserved, and you can recover ﬁles

copied while the protection was active.

Note: when the protection is deactivated, the contents of the cache continue to be

available to recover data.

Recover data

TrashMagic displays the ﬁles and folders saved in the cache. You can recover one or

many items by drag and drop to the Finder or a folder.

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MainWindow

The TrashMagic main window shows informations and provide an easy access to all

features.

Functions are organized in three panels, while the top of the window is dedicated to the

global informations.

The link located at the bottom of the window gets you directly to the TRI-EDRE’s web

site.

Information area

The information area is located at the top of the window. You’ll ﬁnd the status of the

protection, the size occupied by the cache, and the number of protected volumes (de-

pendant of the TrashMagic settings).

Also, the size of the current Trash contents is displayed.

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Start and Stop the Protection

Display this panel by clicking the «Start & Stop» tab.

You can activate or deactivate the protection at any time by clicking the button at the

bottom of this panel. The button changes to start or stop the protection, due to its sta-

tus.

When the protection is active, all ﬁles and folders moved to the Trash are automaticaly

copied in the TrashMagic cache.

When the protection is disabled, data in the Trash are no more copied to the cache.

Note: When the protection is deactivated, the contents of the cache is preserved and

remains available to recover data.

TrashMagic Menu

This menu is displayed permanently in the Menu bar. Using this menu, you can directly

stop or restart the protection (without launching TrashMagic), as well as opening the

TrashMagic application.

Note: You can deactivated this menu in the «Settings» panel.

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TrashMagic Settings

Click the «Settings» tab to display this panel.

Settings are organized in two parts, general settings and cache settings.

General Settings

Survey only the current user trash

When this options is checked on, only the current Home trash is protected. Other disks

are not protected.

Uncheck this option to protect all mounted volumes.

Check for updates

This options allows TrashMagic to regularly check our web site for new versions, and

lets you know if there is a new version available.

Display TrashMagic Menu

If this option is checked on, the TrashMagic Menu is displayed in the menu bar.

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Cache Settings

With this options, you can adapt TrashMagic to your needs.

Data management mode

You have two choices:

• Do a copy of all items that are moved to the Trash. In this case, the contents of the

Trash remain unchanged, and TrashMagic creates a copy of any ﬁle and place it in

the cache. This mode uses more space in the hard disk.

• Move the contents of the Trash to the TrashMagic cache. The result is that the

Trash is automatically emptied.

Minimum free space on disk

This setting deﬁnes the maximal occupation of the TrashMagic cache in the disk. When

this value is reached, the ﬁrst ﬁles placed in the cache are deleted to free space in the

disk.

Note: The cache is populated each time data are moved to the Trash, but is also emp-

tied with the oldest data (if this setting is on).

Important! It is advised to leave at least 10 % of free space in the disk.

Delete data in the cache after a delay

You choose here how long the data must be kept in the cache. After this delay, oldest

data are removed from the cache and dleted.

Important! It is advised to activate this option, to prevent your hard disk to be

ﬁlled by the cache.

Note: The time is calculated based on a real activity. Days when your computer is not

used are not taken in account. Thus, the cache will not be emptied if you are out for a

long time.

Do not save large ﬁles

You can choose not to save large ﬁles, and deﬁne the maximal size of protected ﬁles.

Larger ﬁles will not be copied or moved to the cache

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Recover Data

This panel displays the list of the ﬁles saved in the cache.

By default, the list shows items placed in the cache during the last hour, but you can

change this in the Display menu.

Recover data

To recover one or many ﬁles or folders, select it in the list and click the Recover button.

A dialog will ask you where to recover the data.

You can also drag and drop the selected items from the list to the Finder to recover

them.

Important! Recovered items are copied from the cache to the speciﬁed location.

The original items remain in the cache, even after they have been recovered.

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Data presentation

You can change the way data are displayed in this panel.

View by items or by date

The list displays ﬁles sorted by name («View items» mode). You can change the sorting

criteria by selecting the column title.

Data can also be shown following the date they have been saved in the cache. This is

useful to retrieve items that were deteled at a known time. Select the «View by date»

mode for such a display mode.

Display the latest saved ﬁles

By default, only the latest protected ﬁles and folders are displayed. Use the Display

popup menu to display all items, or items that were saved since a predeﬁnd duration,

from 1 hour to 7 days.

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Search in the cache

You can search speciﬁc ﬁles in the cache. Search function is useful when the cache con-

tains a large number of items. You can quickly retrieve ﬁles or folders by their name.

Note: During a search, all ﬁles matching are displayed (the date is not used).

The list displays the results of the search.

Empty the cache

The cache contains all protected items that were moved to the Trash.

You can deleted from the cache unused ﬁles. Select them and click the «Empty selec-

tion» button.

It is also possible to delete everything from the cache. Click the «Empty all» button.

You’ll be asked to conﬁrm the deletion.

CAUTION! If you empty the cache, data are deﬁnitely unrecoverable.

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F.A.Q.

Q: How can I access Help?

A: The Help menu opens the PDF version of the manual.

Q: How can I entirely uninstall TrashMagic?

A: Use the Uninstall item in the Special menu of TrashMagic.

Q: How can I check if the protection is activated?

A: The TrashMagic menu is permantly displayed in the menu bar. The icon of this menu

is grayed if the protection is deactivated, otherwise, the icon is normal.

Q: Can I stop the protection at any time?

A: Yes, the protection can be activated or deactivated at any time. Note that, when the

protection is stopped, the contents of the cache is preserved. Deactivate the protection

with the TrashMagic menu or launch the TrashMagic application and stop the protec-

tion. This is usefull before deleting a large number of ﬁles that you don’t need to be

protected and copied in the cache.

Q: Why is the Trash automatically emptied?

A: You have selected the «Move to the cache» mode in the TrashMagic settings. In

this case, the protection move the ﬁles from the Trash to the cache, and thus empty the

Trash.

Q: Will the cache ﬁll entirely my disk?

A: No. Settings allow to deﬁne the maximal size occupied by the TrashMagic cache.

By default, TrashMagic let 10 % of the disk total size free. For example, with a 100GB

disk, TrashMagic will empty the cache - starting with the oldest saved ﬁles - if the free

space in the disk is under 10GB.

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