On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:42 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Using mv (move) instead of cp (copy) shouldn't overwrite any files on the > card, unless you're moving files /to/ the card. It should simply replace the > first character in the directory entry with a character the system recognizes > f"empty" (I used to know that code, I could probably look it up), and marks > the space the file exists in used as Free in the FAT. Move doesn't erase > anything, it just updates the FAT, I assume mv, does the same thing. I'm > going by his description.
Exactly. The line in my script was mv /media/disk/dcim/*/* $1 The problem is that two different cards seemed to have imgp7543.pef - imgp7577.pef Or, whatever they were numbered, and the second card that I read had the less critical files of those names. > > On 6/13/2010 5:25 PM, Ken Waller wrote: >> >> Kenneth Waller >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Memory card image recovery programs >> >> >>> Cards are pseudo FAT formatted, and due to their design constraints the way >>> riles get erased, (or for that matter the card gets formatted), unless you >>> go to extraordinary lengths only the directory structure is changed by >>> either of those operations. The only way the data will be over written is >>> if more photos are taken, or new directories are created. >> >> That's what Larry said "overwrote" - I took that to mean new images were >> added. >> >>> >>> On 6/13/2010 4:38 PM, Ken Waller wrote: >>>> Were the images overwritten or deleted? >>>> >>>> My understanding is if they have been over written they can't be >>>> recovered. Could be wrong but that's what I recall. >>>> >>>> Kenneth Waller >>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bran Everseeking" >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:39 AM >>>> Subject: Re: Memory card image recovery programs >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:36:53 -0700 >>>>> Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I did something stupd last night and overwrote some files when >>>>>> copying them off an SD card. >>>>>> >>>>>> I knew that using mv rather than cp was a bad idea, but I discovered >>>>>> a failure mode that I hadn't thought of before. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any recommendations for a program to recover erased files off an sd >>>>>> card for either mac or linux? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 >>> Courier New;}} >>> \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the >>> interface subtly weird.\par >>> } >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Courier > New;}} > \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the > interface subtly weird.\par > } > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
