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In another forum there was discussion about using PhotoRec to repair a corrupt file (like a corrupt Excel file). However the layout of PhotoRec does not work well for fixing a file one can actually find. Could an option be added to work on an existing file and make a copy of it so as to not touch ...

Any chance of using/upgrading Photorec to repair corrupt files not just find "lost" files that are on a drive. For cases where one has the file but the file is just screwed up?

thanks

Alan

It has been a long time since the "stable" versions of TestDisk and PhotRec were release. I know we can get the beta for the latest features, but it might be nice if a new stable we released. Then some of the distributions that only carry the stable releases will get some of the new features/fixes ...