Started my scan for my flash drive last night, which PhotoRec says is about 60mil files. Left it going all night (started around 12am, it's now almost 12pm), and it still is in the 20mils. When I went to bed last night it was at 25mil, which was weird to me. Now I've been watching it for the past hour, and it goes all the way through the 20s, hits 30, jumps to 34, then goes back down to 18. The process has been non stop repeating and I'm not sure if I should just stop it and retry it or if that would mess anything up.
Here is a link to a video I got of the issue of it dropping: https://i.imgur.com/H0Z7LWS.mp4
PhotoRec scan keeps backtracking?
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