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ivnvir is offline ivnvir
2010-07-23 , 02:55
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Hello guys and, possible, gals.
I recently plugged my beloved n900 in a machine's USB and got everything messed up! My n900 told me to recover/fix memory with a computer!
So i used fsdk in my computer, don't know exactly what I did, but it asked for deleting some folder in order to continue, so I did it.
All in all, I've ended up with a plenty .REC files, wich I deleted a little after.
Meanwhile, I plugged my n900 in my Vista and checked the Scan and Fix option...
Everything seems to work now, but I lost a document wich was VERY, VERY, VERY important to me
Any tips on recovering it?

Some info about the file:
- Plain text, can't remember if it has extension .txt or nothing (created with stock notes app)
- I know some words in it
- Its name was something like 'Ideias'

Please help me!
Thanks in advance!
 
stlpaul is offline stlpaul
2010-07-23 , 03:09
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Give a try to testdisk, I think it's in one of the extras repos, it can recover most types of files (if they still exist in the memory). Otherwise it is a FAT32 partition, so any typical FAT32 undelete utilities might be able to help (as long as you didn't reformat the partition).

Another option would be to mount the N900 on your computer and use dd to make an image of the the whole thing, then search that for some text that you remember being in your important file (strings yourfile | grep -i some.text.you.remember). Maybe you can find it in the midst of the data.
 
stlpaul is offline stlpaul
2010-07-23 , 03:10
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Actually for the last suggestion you can probably just do that on n900 itself, just umount the mass storage and grep the device node for your known string... good luck!
 
weirdbeard is offline weirdbeard
2010-07-23 , 03:11
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you mean fsck. can you view the file at all with the file manager on your n900?
 
ivnvir is offline ivnvir
2010-07-23 , 03:28
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Originally Posted by stlpaul View Post
Give a try to testdisk, I think it's in one of the extras repos, it can recover most types of files (if they still exist in the memory). Otherwise it is a FAT32 partition, so any typical FAT32 undelete utilities might be able to help (as long as you didn't reformat the partition).

Another option would be to mount the N900 on your computer and use dd to make an image of the the whole thing, then search that for some text that you remember being in your important file (strings yourfile | grep -i some.text.you.remember). Maybe you can find it in the midst of the data.
PhotoRec finds too much undesired things
I would love to search only for '.txt' or '*idei*', but it seems to not work.

About the grep -nir 'text' *, I can't, since I don't have the file anymore...

Thanks.
 
ivnvir is offline ivnvir
2010-07-23 , 03:31
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Originally Posted by weirdbeard View Post
you mean fsck. can you view the file at all with the file manager on your n900?
no I can't.
The file isn't there anymore, I do have a lot of .REC files recoverable, but don't how it works...

Thanks.

(it's like 00:30am here )
 
kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-07-23 , 05:47
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Aren't those trashed files placed into those REC files? grep those REC files.
 
ivnvir is offline ivnvir
2010-07-23 , 19:10
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Thanks guys for the help, but still I can't get anything
 
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