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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=828312709-16102006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Have you tried renaming in DOS? Find the command
prompt, then find the directory where you stored the files using cd. The
command is as follows:</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=828312709-16102006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>ren <EM>$oldfilename
$newfilename</EM></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=828312709-16102006><EM></EM></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=828312709-16102006>Obviously, just changing file extension in each
case.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=828312709-16102006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>I have used this before to change file extensions and
it does work.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=828312709-16102006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>I'm new to Linux so not sure whether the mv
command would work the same way. If it does, and you wanted to save time,
you might be able to write a shell script using "file" to test for the filetype
and mv to create a file with the correct extension in each
case.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=828312709-16102006>Rob</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=828312709-16102006> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
leo sandhu [mailto:leosandhu@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 15 October 2006
23:36<BR><B>To:</B> Wolverhampton Linux User Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Wolves] NTFS deleted file recovery<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">It's not worked :( I have
already seperated all the files into seperate directories based upon size and
the alleged extension. Running *.* is simply confirming that
the files are sorted correctly :S <BR><BR>Still very few of them are
actually opening and the huge files are still insisting to be .doc
files. Is it possible that they are some form of temp file created by M$
Office?? <BR><BR>:'(<BR><BR>Ron said>>><BR><BR>Mount the disk under
Linux (ubuntu live CD?), open up a shell and run<BR>"file" against the files
e.g. "file *.*" this will at least identify if<BR>the file is a PDF, Office
document, mpeg, iso whatever based on the <BR>content of the file instead of
the extension.<BR><BR>HTH<BR><BR><<<<<BR><BR><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><BR><BR>leo
sandhu wrote:<BR>><BR>> Does anybody know about manipulating file
headers?<BR>><BR>> In the end I used PhotoRec and succesfully
recovered 36GB of data from<BR>> the old 40Gb drive. The
problem now is that although I requested only a <BR>> few file
types - .pdf .doc .ppt .xl ; the stupid thing has
actually<BR>> recovered what looks like every file on that hard disk
outside of the<BR>> main "windows" directory and liberally distributed a
file extension <BR>> based upon what seems to be luck of the
draw.<BR>><BR>> This means I now have doc files that are 640mb in
size. Me thinks these<BR>> seem likely to be either MPG or iso
files and are easily ignored.<BR>> However, actually sifting through the
thousands of remaining files is<BR>> worse than drowning in
custard. There is some 20Gb of files under 10mb<BR>> in
size,<BR>><BR>> Please, can anyone tell me a way to easily (or at
least more sensibly) <BR>> filter these files, maybe try to reallocate
file extensions and check<BR>> for integrity?<BR>><BR>> please :S
please :S<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>