Corporations Face Problems with Employee Emails

TwistedOne151 writes "Law.com has an article outlining how the casual attitude of many employees toward work e-mails has resulted in some thorny problems for corporate in-house counsel. 'It has now become routine even in civil investigations for computers to be subpoenaed so lawyers can look at e-mails and hard drives. And one thing always leads to another. "We have forensic software that shows multiple levels of deletions. It shows thought processes. We can learn far more than from just a document alone," said [Scott] Sorrels. "E-mails have taken over the world."'"

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Can this be done in real time?

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"We have forensic software that shows multiple levels of deletions. It shows thought processes. We can learn far more than from just a document alone," said [Scott] Sorrels. "E-mails have taken over the world."

Can this be done in real time?

Every time I try to use a piece of file recovery software these days, the estimated time for scanning will be on the order of 8 or 10 hours, and that's with rather small disks [no more than about 20GB NTFS, with no more than 10's of thousands of files].

So invariably, I just say, "Aw, to heck with it," and shut the thing down after a couple of minutes.

I've heard that some of the big disks [500GB, 1TB, etc] can take hours and hours just to format - so it seems like running file recovery software on them would take literally days at a time.

Which is not to say that it can't be done, but wow - it would have to be something really important to devote that amount of time just to recreating the file nodes [not to mention trying to recreate the file itself after you had recovered all of the deleted nodes].