[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Michael Rudas]

--- David McMillan wrote:

> So, in my ongoing saga of failing hard drives
> I finally looked at what data *did* get rsync'd before the source drive
> hit the floor.  And found that, out of my collection of thousands of
> pictures and photos (mostly JPGs), I've had a nearly 40% loss rate.  The
> files are still there, and seem to be roughly the right size, but
> image-viewing applications just show them as dimensioned 0x0 pixels.

You might try the graphics-file viewer XnView under either Linux or
Windows.   The Linux version is an RPM, but I have used "alien" to
install it under Ubuntu.  I believe it has batch-processing options,
as well.

It's also possible that while the file-table entries are there, the
files themselves are not.  You might look at a disk-discovery program
to see what is actually IN the sectors that the file-table entries
point at.

~~ Michael Rudas
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