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Thanks a lot, that did it.

I ran the same image using testdisk 6.14 on Debian Jessie (using the Debian-packaged version), and I get the same error message. It must be something triggered by that particular image.
The image is known to have been through rough times. However, I think this should not stop Photorec from trying to ...

Oops, I noticed you said testdisk, not photorec. Sorry. Here's a dtruss of testdisk, just in case:

MacBook-Pro-de-Alfredo:Things alfredo$ sudo dtruss testdisk server.img
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2014
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org ...

Darwin has dtruss, is this useful?

MacBook-Pro-de-Alfredo:Things alfredo$ sudo dtruss photorec server.img
Password:
PhotoRec 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2014
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Unable to open file or device server.img: No such file or ...

Hi,

I would like to thank the author for making these awesome tools available. I have used them at one point or another, most often to recover photos from unsavvy users who learn to make backups the hard way (well some don't, but that's another story)

Today I am trying to recover files from a ...