On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 20:37:08 Adam Carter wrote: > I did that already. > > > Gives me a lot of files with unrelated names. > > Think of your GENTOO box with all names renamed > > to something like > > > > [index number].[filetype] > > > > . So you got back your data but cannot use > > it, since the names got lost. > > > > For images this is not a big deal...display them > > and you know probably how to rename them back > > to something useful. > > > > But what file is (for example) > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4083 2011-11-22 03:46 file002873.bin > > Does file file002873.bin provide any help? > > And yes, its a real pain to loose the filenames!
Some years ago I had to revive a removable drive that someone had repeatedly snatched out of the machine without unmounting it first. I tried photorec and pals and had the same impenetrable maze of unhelpful file names as Adam's. I know it's not much help, but I eventually found another utility that just swept through and put everything back together again, humpty- dumpty fashion. I wish I could remember what the utility was. Sorry. But it is out there somewhere in Google-land. -- Regards Peter
