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