Photorec doesn't list all file extensions

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toolittletime
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Photorec doesn't list all file extensions

#1 Post by toolittletime »

I am trying to recover some mbox and *.msf files which I checked and are supported.

However, every time I go into photorec, and under file options, it doesn't list those file extensions for selection. Could someone please offer some guidance?

I tried both the latest 7.2, and 7.1

Running Debian 11.

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Re: Photorec doesn't list all file extensions

#2 Post by cgrenier »

The menu list file families, not file extensions. mbox is part of the tx? file family.

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 [X] ttf  TrueType Font
 [X] tx?  Text files with header: rtf,xml,xhtml,mbox/imm,pm,ram,reg,sh,slk,stp,jad,url
 [X] txt  Other text files: txt,html,asp,bat,C,jsp,perl,php,py/emlx... scripts
 [X] tz   Timezone info

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Re: Photorec doesn't list all file extensions

#3 Post by toolittletime »

Thank you for this, and would you know what family msf files belong to?

MSF is listed as Mozilla mork database, and I was unable to find this in the list

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Re: Photorec doesn't list all file extensions

#4 Post by recuperation »

I don't know either. But by searching the forum with the keyword "MSF" I found:

viewtopic.php?p=13416&hilit=msf#p13416

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