PhotoRec detects files by file signatures. PDFs have a strong, well-defined signature, so they’re easy to find. GnuCash files often don’t have a unique signature (or are embedded in SQLite/XML), so PhotoRec may only recover them during a broad scan and miss them when filtering by type.
So yes, when ...
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- 19 Dec 2025, 13:55
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Why might photorec do this?
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