On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Caithness <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Actually, you can recover deleted data from SQLite databases - we've been
> doing it for a while (a number of years). There's at least one product to
> do it for you (http://ccl-forensics.com/epilog)  and there have been a
> number of presentations I have given and been at which discussed the
> subject.
>

The secure_delete
pragma<http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_secure_delete>can be
used to mostly block the recovery of deleted data, for those
applications that really want their content to be irrevocably deleted.


>
>
>
> On 11 Jul 2012, at 7:32am, rsharnagate <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Actually I want to recover deleted data from sqlitedb file. Deleted data
> > means data from freelist page and unallocated space.
> > That's why I want to parse it.
>
> Sorry, but it's not possible to parse unused areas of pages because you
> lack framing information.  The data may have been written to that page when
> the page was used for something else.  Once that data was deleted, the page
> would have been reused for some other purpose, but not all the bits inside
> the page would have been overwritten, so unused area of the page might
> contain all sorts of remnants from pages of other types, written in any
> order, truncated strangely, and completely unparsable.
>
> Simon.
>
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