undeleting directories
Posted: 25 Mar 2014, 19:11
Hi
I am trying to recover around 20.000 files I have unwillingly deleted from an external disk, with ExFat filesystem. Testdisk/photorec correctly finds everything there, great. However, I am not able to select the whole deleted tree I want to copy/recover on my disk, instead I am forced to search and 'select' any single file by hand, then copy it on my hard-drive from the external disk. The tree is quite complicated, like several subdirectories, it is impossible to recover it all manually.
To put it short
-I see all the files (using the 'P' option) I have recently deleted from the external disk
-I can navigate in the file tree I have deleted, and select files (not directories) one by one, select them (with 'a' command) and copy them to my hard drive (C command).
-I cannot select one or several folders at a time, then copy them to my hard drive.
Can anyone help with the last point or give me any other idea how to do it? External disk is 2TB, internal disk is 500Gb (so I cannot copy everything by brute force), I am trying to recover around 200Gb of data. I use debian, but can switch to MacOS.
Thanks everybody for help, and the developers for this great software.
I am trying to recover around 20.000 files I have unwillingly deleted from an external disk, with ExFat filesystem. Testdisk/photorec correctly finds everything there, great. However, I am not able to select the whole deleted tree I want to copy/recover on my disk, instead I am forced to search and 'select' any single file by hand, then copy it on my hard-drive from the external disk. The tree is quite complicated, like several subdirectories, it is impossible to recover it all manually.
To put it short
-I see all the files (using the 'P' option) I have recently deleted from the external disk
-I can navigate in the file tree I have deleted, and select files (not directories) one by one, select them (with 'a' command) and copy them to my hard drive (C command).
-I cannot select one or several folders at a time, then copy them to my hard drive.
Can anyone help with the last point or give me any other idea how to do it? External disk is 2TB, internal disk is 500Gb (so I cannot copy everything by brute force), I am trying to recover around 200Gb of data. I use debian, but can switch to MacOS.
Thanks everybody for help, and the developers for this great software.