Can you teach scalpel to recognize a file

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I have a few drives that have been reformatted that I need to retrieve data from. A friend told me that an app like scalpel might be a good option for doing this. After some research it looks like a great tool if you need to recover common file types, but the problem is that I am looking to recover some obscure file types.

The drive has a few RPGMaker2003 projects on it which I highly doubt use common file types and wont be recognized. I have a test project that I just created and I was wondering if it was possible point scalpel (or any other tool for that matter) at this project and teach it what to look for?

I don't know about scalpel, but I think photorec supports adding custom file types. Also, many (if not most) obscure file formats are actually based on very common formats, e.g. XML, Tar, etc. — forest, Apr 11 '22 at 22:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '22 at 23:05

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Can you teach scalpel to recognize a file

Yes, you can define file types in the config file.

For example like this configuration file from TSK's github.

answered Apr 11 '22 at 23:05

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