On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Narendra Sisodiya < naren...@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, bhanuv...@gmail.com > <bhanuv...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Gaurav Paliwal < >> gaurav.paliwal1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>>> searched the web and tried scalpel according to >>>> http://www.webupd8.org/2009/03/recover-deleted-files-in-ubuntu-debian.html >>>> but this generated approximately 700 folders and all of them containing >>>> redundant files .. looking through them is nearly impossible. >>>> Is there any other means to get this done? >>>> >>> >>> It reminds me of this : >>> http://atuljha.com/blog/2010/09/08/recovering-the-deleted-jpg-files/ >>> >>> >> >> used foremost but the only difference of it wrt scalpel is that it created >> all the 19 gigs of jpg files in one directory. >> moreover since they are in one directory .. there should be no repetition >> as it was in case of scalpel. >> >> most of the pictures coming up are perhaps from my browser's cache .. >> display pictures from facebook and twitter profiles. >> will have a h**l of a time searching for the ones I need .. still the >> pictures have been undeleted .. lets see what happens now. >> >> number of files is 260405 in the recovered directory. >> > > You can use file commands to check if files is an image > try > $ file example.jpg > use pipe to and grep to test. > > After that you can use size. most of the images will be very small and > comes from browser cache. > Using above two criteria will recover many images. try images above 100Kb. > or 1Mb > > You can also use Photorec software to recover images. > > forget to mention the create time or modified time. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
