Support for .vdata files

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f34nor
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Support for .vdata files

#1 Post by f34nor »

I was wondering if you cloud include support for .vdata files from the Vaulty App for android?
https://fileinfo.com/extension/vdata

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Re: Support for .vdata files

#2 Post by cgrenier »

As this application doesn't encrypt the files but only renamed them, the original filenames should be recovered correctly by PhotoRec.
Correction: some files may have the word "obscured" prepended to them.

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Re: Support for .vdata files

#3 Post by f34nor »

Would I need to add a record for .vdata ? Or would it work "off the shelf?"

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Re: Support for .vdata files

#4 Post by f34nor »

cgrenier wrote: 30 Aug 2019, 06:49 As this application doesn't encrypt the files but only renamed them, the original filenames should be recovered correctly by PhotoRec.


SHA256: 1f9c8715c3ab3806c75589701617b9f6b2ad8364295099f8d3b6c13bcffa3e3e
File size: 5915

ERROR: PhotoRec doesn't know this format.


Feel free to contact the developper if you think that PhotoRec should be able to recover this file. Don't forget to provide this URL.
https://www.cgsecurity.org/photorec/sca ... 3bcffa3e3e

So I have to add a custom file?

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Re: Support for .vdata files

#5 Post by cgrenier »

Yes, you can create a photorec.sig (or .photorec.sig on Linux or macos) with

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vdata 0 "obscured"

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