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hi,

i have external hdd that was formatted with HFS or HFS+, my son accidentally format the hdd to fat32.
how can i recover the file? what should i use testdisk or photorec?

TIA...

You can try testdisk to recover the HFS partition. Once it's done, if the filesystem is corrupted, try PhotoRec but unfortunately it will not recover the original filenames.

thank you for the reply i will try it.

I have more or less the same problem.

I have an external SDD harddrive (the harddrive from my broken MacBook), HFS+ formatted. Before the MacBook crashed, I changed the main user account, which deleted all (hidden) files. One of them was a xxxx.manager file (manager.io is an accounting program).

I only need THAT file, nothing else. Is the fact that it is an SDD drive a problem?
Some recovery programs only let me search for common filetypes, not exotic once like ".manager" files. Can TestDisk recover this file and how do I do that?

testdisk will not help and photorec can be usefull only if it know this file format.
Can you share some .manager files ? (Dummy data is ok)