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Questions tagged [file-recovery]

Methods and tools for the retrieval of information either deleted accidentally or on corrupt or damaged media.

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Why is the file deleted not actually deleted from the hard drive?

From an article on file recovery I read, that when a file is deleted on your computer, only a pointer to the file is deleted and the space occupied by the file is marked as free to use. Is the only reason for this to recover "deleted" files or are…
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overwrote ~/bin folder

Somehow I accidentally overwrote my ~/bin. I typed the command: $ cp /home/dsg/Downloads/sbt-launch-0.7.4.jar ~/bin I was trying to copy the file into my bin folder but instead overwrote the folder. Now: $ cd ~/bin bash: cd: /home/dsg/bin: Not a…
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How do I recover a corrupted .txt file?

Recently I often edited a txt file with Notepad++ on Windows XP and gedit on Linux (Mint). During shutdown on windows, it seems, that file was corrupted. This is the second time that this happens and both corrupted files now start with…
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Can I recover word file from computer?

I did cut and paste a ms word file from computer to usb drive and lost the drive. Is there anyway to recover the file from computer? Thanks.
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Photorec found less files than before even though sd card hasn't been written to at all

The first time I ran it, it found 50 flac files. Now it found only 47. Why is this? I had to run it again because I accidentally pressed shift+delete when selecting flac files with the shift key...I've immediately tried Photorec to restore the…
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How to recover missing .txt file?

I was using my pc and writing things on my .txt file where i store my everyday'' to-do '' like clean the house wash the dog pay x bill pay z bill but the problem is the power was shut down on my PC and now I can't find the .txt file anymore. Only…
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How can I mass delete all the files in a directory that contain only one line?

I used a data recovery program to recover a bunch of overwritten text and the stuff that I want (previous versions of the overwritten files) is hidden amongst thousands of .txt, .json, .h and .html files. Most of these unwanted files contain only…
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External HDD file recovery

My GF connected her external HDD to the TV. I don't know what exactly did she do after connecting, but it somehow got reformatted or something. She had a lot of important files on it. Now there's just '_MSTBFKS' folder with one MST_BKFS.IDX file and…
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Can't find my files in users after moving

This morning, when I turned on my laptop, I realised that all my files and folders were missing. Luckily I was able to locate them at users. I moved the personal folders to the already pinned ones to locate them easily. I restarted everything just…
Victoria Darko
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Windows File Recovery - winfr - any way to make recovered documents readable?

I'm trying to recover files that my in-law deleted(and emptied from recycle bin) few days ago. I can get some .odt files back but can't check if they are those that we need because no matter what encoding I choose it looks gibberish like this, keep…
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How to undo `rm -r *`?

I wanted to wipe all data on a USB device. Thing is, I accidentally mounted /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sdb1 and accidentally deleted my Windows Recovery Partition. I ran this from Ubuntu 14.04. Any ideas how to undo this?
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What offset for FAT32 in Photorec? Will it affect file recovery?

Im worrried a bad offset will cause Photorec to miss some files and/or recover them badly like for example a zip file. How to fix a damaged zip file? How to fix file names? (all names are plain gibberish)
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How do I recover deleted files from rare filetypes?

Recuva recovers the jpg's, the pdf's, and the common filetypes. But what about, say, sqlite files? Or other types of random files? I'm trying to recover lost files from a USB drive that the computer can't recognize anymore. Recuva has recovered many…
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How can I make a video file unrecoverable?

Possible Duplicate: How to secure delete file or folder in windows? I have very little computer skills but I have to remove some videos from a laptop that I already deleted and also deleted from the recycle bin. Is there anything simple and…
michele
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Recovered File has weird numbers

I have a recovered file from which I accidentally deleted using command line. Unfortunately one of the file content is what I'm not expecting to see. Here's the content of that file. Is it still possible to recover this file?
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