Hello Rob, PhotoRescue uses several different methods to look for files. I think that it actually looks at the bytes and identifies known file types from that as one of the methods. It takes quite a long time for some of the methods it uses. I was surprised at how many images it found on some of my cards.
-- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, February 22, 2004, 3:20:45 PM, you wrote: RS> On 22 Feb 2004 at 14:10, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Another interesting thought, the photo rescue software that can find >> deleted images on cards (accidental loss, we hope) would have a much >> more difficult, if not impossible, time trying to indentify and >> restore raw images. RS> I don't believe that these undelete packages care at all what the data type is RS> they just try and reconstruct the data using known block and file allocation RS> table elements. RS> Rob Studdert RS> HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA RS> Tel +61-2-9554-4110 RS> UTC(GMT) +10 Hours RS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] RS> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ RS> Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
