On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Gaurav Paliwal < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> searched the web and tried scalpel according to >>> http://www.webupd8.org/2009/03/recover-deleted-files-in-ubuntu-debian.html >>> but this generated approximately 700 folders and all of them containing >>> redundant files .. looking through them is nearly impossible. >>> Is there any other means to get this done? >>> >> >> It reminds me of this : >> http://atuljha.com/blog/2010/09/08/recovering-the-deleted-jpg-files/ >> >> > > used foremost but the only difference of it wrt scalpel is that it created > all the 19 gigs of jpg files in one directory. > moreover since they are in one directory .. there should be no repetition > as it was in case of scalpel. > > most of the pictures coming up are perhaps from my browser's cache .. > display pictures from facebook and twitter profiles. > will have a h**l of a time searching for the ones I need .. still the > pictures have been undeleted .. lets see what happens now. > > number of files is 260405 in the recovered directory. > You can use file commands to check if files is an image try $ file example.jpg use pipe to and grep to test. After that you can use size. most of the images will be very small and comes from browser cache. Using above two criteria will recover many images. try images above 100Kb. or 1Mb You can also use Photorec software to recover images. -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
