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I cannot access my external HHD. It's a WD device, powered by cable, and connected through USB.
It does show up in the WD Discovery app, WD Drive Utilities, and even the Windows device manager. But the folder is nowhere to be found.
I need to access some old files, quite urgently.
Anyone with #HDD #WD #FileRecovery or #DriveRecovery experience. Any #advice ? Please?
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When using #ext4magic its a bit disappointing how important the '-f' flag is. the flag is for identifying the folder to recover files from, if you don't use it and there is an error elsewhere, then the only output you might get is "Segmentation fault" and there is surprisingly little in docs or on the web to indicate how to get around that.
A typical way to use the -f flag is:
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fediverse(...) -f 'folder/where/deleted/file/was/' (...)
There are a number of errors that get thrown up when trying to use ext4magic, sadly they are not well documented in man pages, nor even online! the cloudflare hosted repository seemed lacking in up to date information. the archlinux wiki is probably the best resource (EDIT but not even that explained what the error codes meant).
i hope this helps someone in the vast, magical 
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Woops, deleted the wrong file, heres some file recovery tips.... the 2nd one i wish i found MUCH sooner.
i tried both #PhotoRec and ext4magic.
PhotoRec seems more suited to files with header types that can be detected easily, like images. it seems that if youve lost a text file with bits of what look like binary in them, you may not find it with PhotoRec, but do try it if desperate. PhotoRec is part of the #testdisk package.
Question for those who know computer hardware stuff.... if I have some 10+ year old SATA hard drives and I've plugged them into my hard driver reader and nothing happens, are they dead or would there be some way of combing them for files?
anyone here have exp with file recovery after a basic delete.
tried #ext4magic but nothing is appearing in the recovered files folder. i even tried deleting a file and then unmounting the file system an trying to see if ext4magic could find it and STILL nothing.
ideas? suggestions welcome.
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A shout-out to the fine folk that build the #opensource #PhotoRec app. A bug in Apple's Image Capture app deleted 99 of my photos from an SD card without downloading them. I just used PhotoRec in the Terminal to recover them all.
Phew!
#PhotoRec is part of #TestDisk. If you've got homebrew, you can install PhotoRec with "brew install testdisk" in the Terminal.
Thanks PhotoRec!
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/j9yedx/photorec_on_mac/
https://onmac.net/how-to-recover-deleted-files-from-sd-card-on-mac/
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