[Gllug] recovering files from USB flash drive

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:23 +0000, J F wrote:
> Sorry for the long email....
> 
> I bought a 512 MB USB flash drive recently, and copied an important, gpg-encrypted .tar file to it (not 'armored'), along with two 
> ASCII text files.

I would *never* trust my only copy of an important file to a flash
drive.  By all means use one to carry data, but make sure it's arrived
intact at its destination before deleting it at source.

> 
> Some days later, I tried to access these files and for some strange reason, the ASCII text files turned into a bunch of ÿ's, opening 
> them with hexdump gives me a load of FF's.

How did you copy said files?  Did you remember to umount the drive
before you removed it.  It sounds awfully like the space is allocated
but the data aren't there.

John

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