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When Photorec asks for the destination navigate to the disk and folder you want to save the files to.
In the list choosing .. (two dots) takes you up in file hierarchy. When you get to the top level choose Volumes, there you can find all the disks attached to your Mac. Choose your external disk and ...

I tested some settings.

If I disable mpg, I get a video in 2-3 parts, some videos in one part if I'm lucky. The reason might be occasional tv transmission errors which have corrupted the ts packets inside the file. Turning paranoid off and on had a very small effect, the video was only 1MB bigger ...

I'm amazed. Photorec ran overnight and in a few hours it filled my backup drive. Another recovery app I tested was able to find only 12% of my files in 24 hours. No more black paint!

The ts files it found were usually in two or more pieces. I could successfully combine one movie with cat and there ...

I accidentally wrote a linux partition over the first 700 MB of my mac's media drive. Luckily Photorec was able to recognize the old file system behind the wall.

Now I'm trying to recover my tv recordings (rec files from PVR). They are mpeg2 ts streams with Topfield header. I made a signature file ...