Hi,
so today I accidentally formatted the SD Card on my phone, so now I have lost about 5GB worth of pictures. I have spent the entire evening trying to recover it, however nothing seems to work. I have come to the conclusion that TestDisk/PhotoRec the best solution is and it is free. Whenever I try to open it instead of going to the window where one would usually have to log in or decide what they want to recover this message always pops up:
" login: illegal option -- S
usage: login [-pq] [-h hostname] [username]
login -f [-lpq] [-h hostname] [username [prog [arg ...]]]
[Process completed] "
I am not sure what to, I have looked everywhere but I have not yet come across a someone else that has struggled with the same problem. I have attached a picture of it as well, whenever I try to open TextDisk the same message appears. Fyi I have a MacBook Pro and I cannot edit the text there.
I really hope that someone could maybe help on what to do and how I could recover it, because honestly want/need those pictures back as soon as possible and I don't want to spend a fortune on some other program either that will probably not do the job as well anyways.
Hope that someone can help me somehow... Thanks in advance.
'login: illegal option -- S' message pops up whenever i open photorec.
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Re: 'login: illegal option -- S' message pops up whenever i open photorec.
Can you start a Terminal, use "cd directory_name" to go in testdisk-7.1-WIP directory and start "./photorec" ? The commands are case sensitive.
To know the current directory, use "pwd" (print working directory) and "ls" to list the files in the current directory.
To know the current directory, use "pwd" (print working directory) and "ls" to list the files in the current directory.