nixCraft 🐧I just dug up a USB drive from 2007. It's ext3 fike systems, and there's just one empty file on it, called 'do-not-forget.txt.' No clue what it means, or why I even made it.
Bill@nixCraft It doesn't have keys to a huge Bitcoin wallet encoded somewhere?
@Sempf i wish 😂
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@nixCraft Weren't technologists hiding encrypted file systems in the high-address unallocated areas of ext3, around that time? You might see if there's a hidden filesystem in addition to the ext3.
But, it'll probably need a pass(word/phrase/key) from around that time, too.
baibold@nixCraft My money is on hidden encrypted file system. You have failed past you.
At least it predates bitcoin so it's probably not a lost wallet.
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Korbs@nixCraft You forgot 😭
Jason 🍸🫧@nixCraft U Forgor 💀
Martin G@nixCraft the electronic version of "the knot in the handkerchief"?
breakpoint@nixCraft have you checked the hidden file name .instructions.txt. Its content should be \r, which explains things!
@nixCraft I think I've had this happen too, and I could swear that the text files I created had contents. Could it be a long term storage corruption issue associated with ext3?