Logic of restoring selected files
Posted: 16 Jul 2023, 15:40
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:
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!
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
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!
