Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

generating a "fake" map file to enable ddrescue to focus on metadata blocks (i.e. directory entry) information vs actual data blocks (i.e. file content). i.e. if what I'm calling a metadata block is damaged, even if the content of the file is there, one won't be able to recover
Not true, “raw ...

The mail are sent by the native Apple application "mail"
I don't know that application, but for this to have any chance of working, each e-mail should be stored as an individual file.

By selecting all disk units / memory partitions, and after 2 days we see yet a remaining time of two months (but ...

For what it's worth, the freeware Recuva, which hasn't been updated since 2016, flawlessly recovers all those AVI files (by raw recovery / signature search).

Another example on a 3TB drive :
first sector name R-Studio size R-Studio name Recuva size Recuva
sector 3873416 0000002.avi 728571904 bytes ...

(I silently join you in waiting for an answer to this question... One more soul among us and we will be a crowd! By the way I had a problem of high CPU usage when trying v. 8.14.179611 on Windows 7, as mentioned here .)

“But the Vampire who makes us gentle orders that we satisfy ourselves with ...

Well, then it may be useful to someone, someday... é_è
(I got such a bad headache yesterday after all these tedious calculations, I was hoping that it would be worth it. But it's one of my specialties to put in a lot of effort for very little effect.)

I guess the real question is, is it a bug in the Linux version? Which sounds like maybe it's based on an older code base? I mean it looks like the Windows version is at 8.14 build 179623. Kind of seems to me the software isn't a 'one license fits all' sort of thing, so buying the Linux version ...

If it's off by such a small amount it should still be manageable with such a method. Could you directly examine the MFT record ? With R-Studio, in “Metafiles”, right-click on “$MFT”, then “View/Edit”, then in the new window, “Edit” => “Find”, type the name of the image file in “Unicode” and run the ...

Not sure... From what I read, the allocation information in the MFT record for files larger than 4GB generally gets wiped when the file is deleted, but from what I understand about this particular case, that image file was not deleted, it's rather an issue preventing regular access to the partition ...

I'd add that "file signature search" requires a complete disk scan. And you may look at file integrity by right-clicking the file and selecting Get Info on the shortcut menu.
In my experience so far the “Recovery chances” column doesn't show much useful information, as I explained here ...

As I had been using R-Studio 8.7 for quite some time (I tried 8.10 at some point but it would crash frequently so I went back to 8.7 which proved consistently reliable), I tried to upgrade yesterday. First I tried v. 8.14, but it caused a CPU usage spike whenever started (13% on a 4T/8T CPU which ...