Automated file type organization after data recovery

[slavvo67]

A while back, I made drive index creator. Well, I shouldn't say that I made it; many people helped along the way. It takes a few minutes but it creates an index of all mounted drives. You can then carve out photos, vids, docs, etc. You can index also index sub directories and just carve them. The program also has a copy function to copy the identified carved files to another directory.

I believe GCMartin created a thread for searching directories. This was included in his thread. I also have a date index creator that can make an index by date range (i.e. Modify date). Let me know if you you're interested and I'll upload it again. Not sure but I think the files were originally on the now defunct Copy.com.

Oh, it's also included in RU Xerus, which is a Quirky derivative (64bit).

Best,

Slavvo67

[s243a]

So well building my mind maps my memory was jogged and I re-discovered the linux command "file". It is suppose to give one file type information. I haven't tried it so I'm not sure exactly how it works:

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/File

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_%28command%29

http://linux.die.net/man/1/file

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?li ... SD-current

[greengeek]

. But with that I'm left with another issue - how to automate the organization of all the file types? .

May be worth asking miriam as she faced similar challenges and came up with some ways to tackle them in the later pages of this thread here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107441

[slavvo67]

I also have a script somewhere that reads the file by Mime type and adds the file extension to the file. But judging by your initial post, you're just looking to carve up the files.

One thing about the undelete process; you lose the original create / modify date. That is very unfortunate.

Drive Index Creator:
https://app.box.com/s/ay1i887vkvljyxmm0z2sw61eyib4t8mc

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Use at your own risk but it works for me.

[slavvo67]

Link above...

[kuman]

dirkishpanther,

I got u do recovery, do u know of a way to recover .micro infected files through Puppy not Win [though infected in XP]?

[slavvo67]

Here is the Mime Extension creator MimeMove1.pet

https://app.box.com/s/h6dgb5ladfvidpv4hcd4u307slf0htor

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BE CAREFUL WITH THIS ONE AS IT USES MOVE AND NOT COPY!! Need YAD installed for this one. Most puppies and Quirky have.

It will take your chosen directory and all sub-directories in that directory and pull out file types into a new directory called Chuck1, that will appear as a sub-directory under your chosen directory..

Example: You have directory called FoundFiles with 20 sub-directories called found001 found002, etc. up to found020

This script will Move all target files (well, most common filetypes) into /FoundFiles/Chuck1/ directory under sub directories like ztext for txt or dat files, zjpeg for jpegs, etc. It separates JPG files by size, which may not be great for everyone.

Not all MIme types are grabbed by this script but most common ones are. YOU MAY WANT TO COPY YOUR ORIGINALFILE(S) to a new test directory in order to get more familiar with this script.

This pet, like drive index creator, has a menu entry under Menu .. Business.

I hope this helps someone.

Slavvo67