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https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk_doc/after_using_photorec.html give some tips on how to deal with duplicated files
PhotoRec can skip the allocated blocks, so if it recover a file that is not deleted, it's because it has recovered a deleted copy...

ext3 and ext4 purge the metadata when a file ...

16.1.2025 12:37 recuperation: modified SDD->SSD

I'm on SSD, but seems that data is not TRIM, maybe because I use LUKS on top of the SSD
with photorec, I recovered TONS of oldies (sadely not what I searched, Lost about 50% of the deleted files (that was about 300MB), but recovered 15GB of photos I ...

I'm low income right now, so at most I can put 100€ now... maybe others can join?

how much will it take to implement?

Hi,
yesterday I accidentally deleted lot of vacation photos, on ext4 with 64bit flag set....
in the past I used Testdisk that recovered files on some exfat (if I remember), but since it's ext4 testdisk don't provide undelete menu...

I tried extundelet, ext4magic but both are outdated, no more ...