RE: null chars in text file: recover text?

  • From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:27:12 -0400

I would also remove that end of file marker then locate any remaining
end of file markers and see if one of them was in reasonable position
for the end of file by file size.  Then I'd strip any earlier end of
file characters out and see what got recovered after that.  With data
recovery the work is a continuous series of experiments.
 


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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:20
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: null chars in text file: recover text?

Hi Alex,
It sounds like you can strip out the null characters and get the text
back.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:22 PM
To: Blind Programming List
Subject: null chars in text file: recover text?

Hi all,
Someone on another list sent me a text file, saying that much of the
text is
gone but the file size is still the same. This file has been
periodically
overwritten (a new copy written over the old one as the file was backed
up),
and one day the file's text ended at a random spot and all text after
that
spot was erased. I looked at the file in a perl script that gave me the
first character that was not ascii 0 (what I think is a null character)
and
the first characters that were not null were the end of the text in the
file, not surprisingly. This tells me that all text after some point
was,
for some reason, replaced by null characters. Is there any hope of
recovering the text now? I hope this made sense.


Have a great day,
Alex
New email address: mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx

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