Bug#631850: scalpel: JPEG configuration incorrect

2011-07-05 Thread Isaac Schemm
Just wanted to follow up on this. Attached is the patch I used to recover JPEG photographs. I changed the maximum file size to 5 MB. Too large a number would have caused too-large JPEG files with multiple pictures concatenated together; too small a number would have missed certain large files. On

Bug#631850: scalpel: JPEG configuration incorrect

2011-06-27 Thread Isaac Schemm
Package: scalpel Version: 1.60-1 Severity: important Tags: patch The configuration in scalpel.conf for finding JPEG files is flawed. It searches for a file with a header FF D8 FF E0 00 10 and a footer FF D9. However, through examining files from a digital camera and files made with GIMP, I have

Bug#631850: scalpel: JPEG configuration incorrect

2011-06-27 Thread Isaac Schemm
On second thought, this patch won't work. It generates JPEG files that are much too large (on the scale of 107 MB!) Is there a way to define a footer as being FF D9 unless it is FF D9 ? ? ? ? http or FF D9 ? ? ? ? Phot ? That would probably solve my problem. Or I could just change the maximum file