Scan ONLY without any recovery

[drakko]

Would like to know if it's possible to only scan for files, without writing anything to any destination. Mainly because I would like to recover some single file from a big partition, I don't have enough free space to recover everything that can be recovered. I would like to know beforehand the filenames and/or sizes before recovering them.

[recuperation]

If Testdisk succeeds in opening a partition you can walk across the directories (key "p" {list files}) and select the file of interest for recovery. In Photorec you don't have file names.

[drakko]

If Testdisk succeeds in opening a partition you can walk across the directories (key "p" {list files}) and select the file of interest for recovery. In Photorec you don't have file names.

Ok done. You have to run .\testdisk_win.exe --> No Log --> Select media --> Select partition type --> Options (Expert mode: Yes) --> Ok --> Advanced --> Select partition - [Undelete] below --> wait a little bit for it to scan --> use up and down arrows or Page up/down keys until you found desired file (alphabetical order) --> press "a" to select everything, or just "c" to copy only selected file --> Please select destination where "your file" will be copied. (choose a different partition or drive, use the 2 dots .. to browse up or . curren dir) --> press "c" again to save on selected destination. The file will be saved there with all of its parent directories included as it were on original partition, not the file standalone (so it can be a little bit difficult to find). So be careful not to overwrite destination dir with original dir structure.

@recuperation I think you should add this post to wiki or guide or something.

[recuperation]

drakko,

if nobody is reading the manual and the online documentation, working on the documentation is simply a waste of time.

This page already existed before I started answering questions on cgsecurity.org:

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Undelet ... h_TestDisk

[drakko]

drakko,

if nobody is reading the manual and the online documentation, working on the documentation is simply a waste of time.

This page already existed before I started answering questions on cgsecurity.org:

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Undelet ... h_TestDisk

There are 5 screenshots, like 5 steps explained, nowhere near as thorough as I've explained.