Comments on Recover Deleted Files With foremost

You may need to be root to run properly

 sudo foremost -i /dev/sda6

Otherwise you may get some message "Processing: stdin" because the current user doesn't have permissions to write the HDD you specified

thnx for that.i wasnt able to figure out why it got stuck there.

after coincidentally formatting my sisters hard drive this tool was a life saver. very easy to use and it got back over 100 gigs of pictures. I cant thank you enough for this!!!

Was able to recover individual files, but any command or workaround to restore the original file structures with files inside them as well ? Or even another tool to do that? Thanks.

Everything worked until I went back to the output folder.  There was the audit.txt and there was a file called jpg, but there was no folder called jpg and no way to view any files.  No errors, all looked as though it worked, but where are the actual files that I should now be able to view?

Would I stand a chance using this on a drive that, when it held the pics and movies and moving gifs that were deleted, as well as videos/movies, was deleted under a Windows format (NTSF), then I converted the Drive to Ext 3 to accomodate Linux Debian.  Everything is likely "lost on Gilligan's Island" huh?

So, my android phone did a weird unprompted reset a while back...when it came back online, 937 jpg images still showed up as recognized files, but were greyed out no preview thumbs and the files are won't open.  They appear to be taking up actual storage - meaning each shows its original file size, but cannot be opened. I was also able to copy them to another drive and they seem to copy intact but still un-openable.  Could this tool help me recover to view them, or could something else?  Anyone have an idea on this?  Thanks very much!

Hello Falko,

I have some trouble with foremost.

I was happy to recover my files after an android reset but all the jpeg files are corrupted.

Did you get also this ? Do you have an idea for me ?

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$ identify 73965547.jpg identify-im6.q16: Corrupt JPEG data: 12 extraneous bytes before marker 0xf9 `73965547.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/352.identify-im6.q16: Unsupported marker type 0xf9 `73965547.jpg' @ error/jpeg.c/JPEGErrorHandler/322.

find . -type f -printf 'rights %M size %s name %p \n'rights -rwxrwxrwx size 29027 name ./73965547.jpg

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It is really frustrated...

I try a python script, convert with imagemagick(mogrify), with jpegtrans, convert... None works....  I hope that you may met this case ...

Regards,

Tux