[gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system,
accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it
was plugged into the camera.

Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in
such a circumstance?

I already told them not to use the card for anything else and to lock it.

		Thanks
		Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Tue, August 4, 2009 17:24, sean wrote:
>

> Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system,
> accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it
> was plugged into the camera.
>
> Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in
> such a circumstance?
>
> I already told them not to use the card for anything else and to lock it.
>
>
> Thanks
> Sean
>
>
>

photorec is probably perfect for this concrete task.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

-- 
Jesús Guerrero

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Jesús Guerrero wrote:

>>
> 
> photorec is probably perfect for this concrete task.
> 
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
> 

Thanks, I will pass it on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:24:13 sean wrote:
> Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system,
> accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it
> was plugged into the camera.
>
> Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in
> such a circumstance?
>
> I already told them not to use the card for anything else and to lock it.

What kind of card?

It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that can 
undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain Mr Peter 
Norton when I was still but a little lad...

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[Mick]

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On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:24:13 sean wrote:
> > Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system,
> > accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it
> > was plugged into the camera.
> >
> > Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in
> > such a circumstance?
> >
> > I already told them not to use the card for anything else and to lock it.
>
> What kind of card?
>
> It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that
> can undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain
> Mr Peter Norton when I was still but a little lad...

It goes without saying that you should create an image of the card on your 
machine using e.g. dd, mount it using -o loop and then perform any recovery 
with testdisk or what not on that image.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
> What kind of card?
> 
> It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that can 
> undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain Mr Peter 
> Norton when I was still but a little lad...
> 

I think they have a compact flash camera.
As mentioned, they no longer have a Windows system at their house, they
decided to try out Linux, and have been using it now for several months.
It was an old pc and I set them up with Xubuntu. I felt Gentoo would
have been to much for them to maintain.

So far, leaving out some of the minor learning curves, they think it has
been great.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Mick wrote:
> 
> It goes without saying that you should create an image of the card on your 
> machine using e.g. dd, mount it using -o loop and then perform any recovery 
> with testdisk or what not on that image.
> 

I pointed them to the testdisk package and the instructions.