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by MikeHalloran
05 Jan 2013, 21:25
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Photorec recovers weird .doc files
Replies: 5
Views: 6052

Re: Photorec recovers weird .doc files

On that subject, it would be nice to have an option to recover ONLY .txt and NOT .xml, .c, .h and related files.

Okay, I know that xml tags might occasionally appear in a simple text file, and even lines of legitimate C code and such, but unprintable characters are never present, and there has to ...
by MikeHalloran
05 Jan 2013, 04:49
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Elapsed and Estimated time keep getting bigger.
Replies: 1
Views: 2268

Re: Elapsed and Estimated time keep getting bigger.

Yeah, well, the estimated time to completion >is< an estimate. It gets better as the program runs.
It does take a while;
I'm currently working on the image of a 200Gb hard drive with no surviving directory structure. One scan to/from a USB drive takes around 32 hours.

I've found that PhotoRec ...