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Hello and thanks in advance for your help!
I fast formatted the wrong external DD and then noticed. Thus no writting or change was made aftermath.
TestDisk and PhotoRec recovered EVERYTHING in a good shape, but without file names or folder structure. I have tried a commercial program called Recoverit that is able to see ALL THE NAMES AND FOLDER STRUCTURE, but recovered all the files corrupted.
Given the fact that the names of the files and folder structure are visible for the other program, wouldn´t it be possible for TestDisk or PhotoRec to do it (read that information that is obviously not lost) so that the correctly recovered files can be correctly named and organized?
Thank you again for your help!!

In your case that is not possible because your file entries point to corrupted files.
You would be left with a bunch of meta information (directory and file names) on one hand side and a bunch of correctly recovered file without names assumingly with no link between both types of information.

What you hope to get for free is a recovery program that extends the capabilities of TestDisk to evaluate the remains of a file system.
TestDisk provices recovery from dammaged file systems only to a limited well-defined extent.
Your feature request has to be programmed individually for each file system.

That requires lots of free time ressources.
They do simply not exist. Currently there are no free ressouces.

You either provide Christophe Grenier with source code to be inserted into TestDisk (even that will use lots of ressources for integration) or throw lots of money at him that he can pay a programmer to do certain things.