[ale] OT: recover Safari browser history

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Devnull <devnull at iamdevnull.info> wrote:
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> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, JK wrote:
>> My sister asked me today: if you clear your browser history
>> in Safari (the OSX browser), is it possible to recover it?
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> I would say about as possible as recovering deleted files from a device
> which in my experience is pretty easy with the correct tools, correct me
> if I am wrong.

Not wrong, just optimistic. :-) a deleted file is different from a
rewritten empty file. Especially troublesome if the old file and new
file occupied the same number of blocks and/or inodes on the drive.

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