Logic of restoring selected files

[nh2me]

Hi,

I'm a programmer and currently trying to restore some accidentally deleted data from an SD card formatted with FAT32 LBA.

In the "Undelete" screen of the TestDisk 7.1 terminal application on Linux, I can see the missing directories listed in red colour as:

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 drwxr-xr-x     0     0         0 10-Jul-2023 10:57 FARO_LS04927_2616.fls
 drwxr-xr-x     0     0         0 10-Jul-2023 10:57 FARO_LS04927_2617.fls

If I select one or multiple of those dirs, and press "C to copy the selected files" or "c to copy the current file", it asks me into which dir to store the selected file, and proceeds with recovery.

However, it does something unexpected:

In the store directory I selected, it creates dirs named after the missing directory (e.g. "FARO_LS04927_2616.fls"), but then puts into each such named directory the entire current root-level contents of the SD card's file system.

This makes no sense to me; I would expect that either it puts restored files into those directories, or nothing, if nothing could be restored.

Am I missing something / not using TestDisk correctly?

Thanks!

[recuperation]

Use the most recent version 7.2-WIP, this is not betaware. You do not need to compile, the package contains precompiled programs with the postfix "static". Run as admin and ensure having write rights at the target location.

If that fails provide a bug documentation on programmer level!