Comments on: Filesystems and data recovery (an explanation of sorts) http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/05/filesystems-and-data-recovery-an-explanation-of-sorts/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:21:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Helen http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/05/filesystems-and-data-recovery-an-explanation-of-sorts/comment-page-1/#comment-17424 Helen Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:30 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=970#comment-17424 <p>you're absolutely right Rob... I was mortified when I realised Dougal could see photos of mine I thought I'd safely deleted: pictures with lousy composition; pics with under-exposure; those one or two pictures where I'd been foolish enough to use flash, with shameful consequences.... I can't bring myself to look at him now.</p> you’re absolutely right Rob… I was mortified when I realised Dougal could see photos of mine I thought I’d safely deleted: pictures with lousy composition; pics with under-exposure; those one or two pictures where I’d been foolish enough to use flash, with shameful consequences…. I can’t bring myself to look at him now.

]]> By: Ken http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/05/filesystems-and-data-recovery-an-explanation-of-sorts/comment-page-1/#comment-17423 Ken Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:18:04 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=970#comment-17423 <p>nice idea... sadly only phones with cameras could do this; the better camera has no such option and no one appears inclined to build one, it would seem.</p> nice idea… sadly only phones with cameras could do this; the better camera has no such option and no one appears inclined to build one, it would seem.

]]> By: Robert Slowley http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/05/filesystems-and-data-recovery-an-explanation-of-sorts/comment-page-1/#comment-17422 Robert Slowley Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:30:02 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=970#comment-17422 <p>It'd be good to have a 'immediately transfer the image to a secure host via 3G' option on a camera to prevent such shenanigans.</p> It’d be good to have a ‘immediately transfer the image to a secure host via 3G’ option on a camera to prevent such shenanigans.

]]> By: Robert Slowley http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/05/filesystems-and-data-recovery-an-explanation-of-sorts/comment-page-1/#comment-17421 Robert Slowley Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:29:31 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=970#comment-17421 <p>I've heard of people who are made to delete photos by police/military/etc carefully not taking any more pictures, then doing a simple FAT undelete when they get home.</p> I’ve heard of people who are made to delete photos by police/military/etc carefully not taking any more pictures, then doing a simple FAT undelete when they get home.

]]> By: Dougal http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/05/filesystems-and-data-recovery-an-explanation-of-sorts/comment-page-1/#comment-17420 Dougal Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:25:02 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=970#comment-17420 <p>That was exactly the case with us --- we ended up recovering images going back to about May which had been long since deleted but clearly hadn't been overwritten. It looks like images which are deleted <em>on camera</em> are deleted (or, over-written) immediately with the next photo, but this is not the case if you delete photos using iPhoto or whatever.</p> That was exactly the case with us — we ended up recovering images going back to about May which had been long since deleted but clearly hadn’t been overwritten. It looks like images which are deleted on camera are deleted (or, over-written) immediately with the next photo, but this is not the case if you delete photos using iPhoto or whatever.

]]> By: Robert Slowley http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/05/filesystems-and-data-recovery-an-explanation-of-sorts/comment-page-1/#comment-17419 Robert Slowley Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:35:34 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=970#comment-17419 <p>I have used PhotoRec to recover files from a damaged file system for friends in the past, where their hard drive had become damaged and the partition appeared to need 'formatting' by XP.</p> <p>What I found though is that because it doesn't take in to account which files are deleted (for obvious reasons) it can turn up ... files the user maybe hoped were not on the disk any more?</p> I have used PhotoRec to recover files from a damaged file system for friends in the past, where their hard drive had become damaged and the partition appeared to need ‘formatting’ by XP.

What I found though is that because it doesn’t take in to account which files are deleted (for obvious reasons) it can turn up … files the user maybe hoped were not on the disk any more?

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