saintmarina/undelete_jpg

Recovered JPGs seem to be corrupted

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ekkoflok commented

Hi,
Thanks for a great tool!
It happily recovers a lot of jpgs but most of them seem to be corrupted - is this the expected behaviour? I guess it could be due to false matches or maybe missing header.

saintmarina commented

If those corrupted files don't open:

  • it could be that they are damaged beyond repair. Like the information that went into the jpg file header makes no sense (e.g. width = 5 million pixels).

  • my program has bugs and you should try other tools (ProtoRec)

If those corrupted files open but look damaged, incomplete, or missing pixels:

  • this behavior is expected. The jpg you are trying to recover is deleted. Some data could have already been overwritten.
ekkoflok commented

Ok, thanks for the answer!