Comments on: Quick’n'dirty undelete pictures from memory card howto

By: evening sky | spring2life take2

evening sky | spring2life take2 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:34:24 +0000

[...] clears the /tmp space at that occasion. bummer! but: search engines to the rescue, in this case Aurélien’s room – it is no problem to recover deleted files from a vfat file system. so i did not loose a [...]

By: Markus Spring

Markus Spring — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:41:12 +0000

thanks a lot for this howto, Aurelién! I used it *after* having tried photorec, and with better results, as it recovered the names of my raw files correctly. So I keep it in my ‘hot howto’ list.

Best regards – Markus

By: meg

meg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:54:55 +0000

Yay, my pictures are saved! You, sir, are the man.

By: Shaun’s Blog » Blog Archive » Recovering Deleted Files

Shaun’s Blog » Blog Archive » Recovering Deleted Files — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:05:53 +0000

[...] this is the blog post I was thinking of. Thanks to Tobias who pointed me to Jakub’s blog which had [...]

By: ninjalj

ninjalj — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:12:58 +0000

Yet another approach, usefull for fragmented files:
http://barrapunto.com/~ninjalj/journal/23291

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:52:50 +0000

Some time ago, I used “The Coroners Toolkit” (TCT) to do basically the same thing. Worked quite well for me.

By: DanaKil

DanaKil — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:35:16 +0000

Very informative for me, thank you

By: Aurélien

Aurélien — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:28:53 +0000

@Bimbo: looks a lot like the link I mentioned in my PS
Still, this method is probably faster than Photorec because it takes advantage of the “undelete” feature of the fat32 filesystem whereas Photorec uses the more brute-force way of scanning the whole disc. Of course, it’s nowhere as powerful as what Photorec can do.

By: Bimbo

Bimbo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:59:03 +0000

Easier and more fully featured: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec