<to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: ... > My experience, too. I've done that for other people now and then > (because this never happens to me [1]) and when they say "gee... > this is taking long", my reply is "wait until we've to go over all > that "recovered" stuff".
many years ago i had a windows check disk of about 300,000 files to wade through. i wrote a program which went through that looked at the magic numbers and then from there it was mostly string indexing to find only the files i was interested in. one of the best things i ever did for myself was delete all of that once i had the few files i needed right away. there was a lot of old history in there that i could read again and then i figured out that i just didn't need to dwell on that stuff any more. in the middle of last winter i was trying to find if i'd backed up all those parts of files someplace but gladly i didn't find a bit of it anywheres. songbird
