Dear Matt: > The problem is that the recovery operation (using > Testdisk/Photorec) results in files and file fragments > that may or may not be correctly identified by file > extensions.
It sounds like what you want is a magic number (file-format ID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format#Magic_number) for .gnucash files. Looking at my file it appears that ``<gnc-v2'' starting at the 41st character in the file whould do it. (I presumee the `2' in ``-v2'' is a version number, and could change at some future date, but for now that's not a problem.) It would be nice if the recovery program lets you add to the file-ID list, otherwise you're back to grep. I hope that it recognizes gzipped files (possible GNUCash files, compressed), but if not you want to look for the first two characters = 0x1f 0x8b. Of course, then you'll have to unzip them to see whether they're really what you want. :-/ Gurus: Is this right? For future-proofing, can we assume the magic number will always be in position 41? Is there an actual, designated, magic number for GNUCash files somewhere? Hope this makes sense/helps... Best wishes, Max Hyre _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
