Greetings,
I've been using photorec to recover docx files. But what is happening is that photorec is recovering 1 zip file that grows to over 1 TB of data! The disk that is being scanned is about 1 TB, but I'm recovering the data to another 1.5 TB partition, and after running for 8 hours photorec tells me that there's not enough space and stops the recovery process. I see that there's 1 zip file of enormous size. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for any help you may offer.
Photorec recovers 1 gigantic zip file
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Re: Photorec recovers 1 gigantic zip file
Did you disable the other file type ? It's usually better to use the default settings to avoid such big files.
Re: Photorec recovers 1 gigantic zip file
Hi, thanks for your response. I did disable all of the other file types except for .zip.
I have tried this several times. Actually, when I originally wrote my first post here I was recovering from the wrong partition, however, when I pointed it to the right partition, there were still problems:
Thanks for all your assistance.
I have tried this several times. Actually, when I originally wrote my first post here I was recovering from the wrong partition, however, when I pointed it to the right partition, there were still problems:
- I selected .zip files only for the correct partition
When I ran the recovery, it successfully recovered 12 docx and xlsx files, but the 13th docx file just grew and grew and grew in size until it was over 200 GB
At that point, I stopped Photorec
Thanks for all your assistance.