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by ct82
06 Jan 2018, 22:44
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files
Replies: 8
Views: 9639

Re: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files

I can't believe how god-damn-stupid I've been for the last two weeks... :cry:

After double-checking this option you mentioned, with the same result I always ended up with from the very beginning, namely a eCryptfs-file in the decrypted folder, I realized that the filesizes between the "encrypted ...
by ct82
04 Jan 2018, 21:22
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files
Replies: 8
Views: 9639

Re: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files

I appreciate your help.

Still, the mounted "decrypted" folder only contains the same encrypted file (for this test, I only took a single file out of the thoundands of *.eCryptfs I actually have).

Yet, if I start creating new files in the "decrypted" folder I find their encrypted counterparts ...
by ct82
01 Jan 2018, 21:47
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files
Replies: 8
Views: 9639

Re: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files

Should I create a bug report regarding this issue?
by ct82
25 Dec 2017, 19:31
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files
Replies: 8
Views: 9639

Re: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files

Thanks for your reply.


PhotoRec can recover deleted eCryptfs encrypted files but as they are encrypted, you still have to unlock the directory holding the files with your password...


Could you please provide more information on how to exactly accomplish this? What I did so far was putting all ...
by ct82
22 Dec 2017, 20:12
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Restoring *.eCryptfs-files
Replies: 8
Views: 9639

Restoring *.eCryptfs-files

Hi,

could someone explain to me how restoring the *.eCryptfs files created by photorec on an ecryptfs-encrypted partition should work in theory?

There seems to be no documentation and the filetype eCryptfs seems to be unique to photorec.

There were a few questions like this in the forum but my ...