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Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a way to get the current status of the file recovery.
I'm using Advanced / Filesystem Utils to list and copy files from the dying HD.

Is the log file testdisk.log an option to compute the status?

By current status I mean the text The idea is to read this status regularly using some terminal command, and set up a cron job to get updates on the recovery on a regular basis..

Many thanks in advance.

I don't know.

Please run Testdisk and select any healthy volume and try copying a directory tree from there to another location.
Check the log file for any lines relating to the copy process.

Please report your findings here.

Thanks.

It looks like this is not trivial / not doable using testdisk or its log file.

You can use the usual file commands like the following to give you the number of files:
find: lists the files, -type f is to limit the search to only files (no folders), one file name per line
| wc -l: the output of the find command is fed to wc -l which prints the newline counts

Thank you. As I am a casual linux command line user I will have to read documentation to understand what it does.

recuperation wrote: 06 Oct 2020, 21:53 Thank you. As I am a casual linux command line user I will have to read documentation to understand what it does.

Edited my post, added some explaining about the used commands.