Simple file restore

razumny — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:36 +0000

Ever delete a file you shouldn’t have? Sure you have! We all have, at some point or another. And we have all regretted it. Whether it was a system file of some sort, the holiday photos of the family, or the lease for your house, it’s always annoying.

My girlfriend gave me a flash drive the other day, on which were some photos that she’d accidentally deleted. She asked me to see what I could save, and so I did. I’d seen a review a few weeks earlier of a program I wanted to try out, and here was the perfect opportunity. The program is simply called Restoration and can be found here.

When downloaded, you do not need to install it, rather the executable runs without installation. You then select the drive to scan, and the program shows you the files available like so:

While it does not necessarily find all deleted files, in my tests it found most of them, and allowed me to quickly and simply copy them to a different drive.

Rename files as a batch

razumny — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:00:30 +0000

In my last post, I talked about a nifty little program called Restoration. One thing I didn’t mention, was that the program had changed the first letter of most of the restored files to $. Most of the files we restored were photos, and I knew that all of these started with the letter I.

I wanted to make sure that the filenames of all of the files were correct keeping in mind how the OS sorts the files. However, there were 220 of them, and renaming them manually would be a hassle.

I remembered that I had at one point used a nifty little program called A.F.5 Rename your files (can be found here), which renamed a batch of files without a hitch.

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Simple file restore

Rename files as a batch