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Thread #169895 Message #4108395
Posted By: DaveRo
01-Jun-21 - 03:17 AM
Thread Name: Tech: unwanted photo thrust onto our laptop
Subject: RE: Tech: unwanted photo thrust onto our laptop
Here are the notes I made at the time in case it happened again:
30-6-2014
Tried 'recoverjpeg' first...
http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/recoverjpeg.html
But PhotoRec recovered more jpegs and 2 movs
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
It appeared to recover many more jpegs but many seem to be part of deleted movs. These have no exif data so will fail the SortPhotos python script
So delete them (the small ones) before running the script
I see both those programs are still available. The first is Linux only . The second has been updated since then.
From those notes it looks like they scan for jpeg files. The last note is because that there were some videos (.mov) on the card and it seems to have extracted bits of those. 'Sortphotos' was a script to get the recovered pix into date order based on their exif data.
If it doesn't work in Windows (it might try to use a driver that interprets the card, when you just want to read the bits) I would try Linux; Knoppix is a small distro that will run from a CD.
There may be better tools out there now. Set the card read-only first, if it has a tab.
Good luck.