From: Zach White Date: 02:58 on 18 Nov 2006 Subject: Undelete hatred Undeleting a file on a FAT32 disk is a pretty simple thing. You troll the FS looking for filenames that have been marked as deleted. Then you see if all the data for said file is available. You'd think that by now someone would have written a simple program to do that under some sort of open source license. Apparently not. Of the many programs listed on download.com as "free", half of them are crippled versions of costly utilities, 1/3rd of them only work for certain file types, and the rest aren't actually undelete utilities. I finally try FreeUndelete. It actually finds the files I'm after. So I click on the enclosing directory, tell it to restore, and I get a crash dialog. Lovely. I have to select each file individually. If it were only that, I wouldn't be writing this. No, it does the most infuriating thing any software can do. It pops up a dialog box. After. Every. Single. File. It. Recovers. HATE -Zach
From: Juerd
Date: 22:26 on 18 Nov 2006
Subject: Re: Undelete hatred
Zach White skribis 2006-11-18 2:58 (+0000):
> Undeleting a file on a FAT32 disk is a pretty simple thing. You troll the
> FS looking for filenames that have been marked as deleted. Then you see if
> all the data for said file is available. You'd think that by now someone
> would have written a simple program to do that under some sort of open
> source license.
-u Try to undelete the specified file. dosfsck tries to allocate a
chain of contiguous unallocated clusters beginning with the start cluster of
the undeleted file.
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