howto including deleted records
jenswes opened this issue · 1 comments
Hello, thanks a lot for your work
while reading this, i'm wondering if this could be used to including deleted records i have a fp5 file and hoping it will include accidentialy deleted records.
In https://github.com/evanmiller/fmptools/blob/main/HACKING
fp5 sector layout:
Offset Length Value
0 1 Deleted? 1=Yes 0=No
in src/fmp.h it is declared as int deleted;
in src/block.c
src/block.c: // block->deleted = sector[0];
src/block.c: block->deleted = 0;
so my idea was forcing each block to be not deleted :-)
but after compiling i'll get the same amount of data as without the patch
thanks for any hints
Since a "block" might consist of many records, I'd guess that its deleted
attribute won't be applicable to individually deleted records.
Do you know what any of the deleted data looks like? It might help to search the file e.g. with a hex editor to verify that the deleted records are actually in the file before trying to reverse engineer it.