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How to recover lost mp3's for free-p5 of 8.

Posted 05-11-2010 at 11:20 PM by GlennsPref

Code:
Next we want to get most of our file names back,  For this I found EasyTag, a a tag search like mp3info with a very handy bulk scanning and renaming tool with a graphical user interface.

Example of reading data tags with mp3info... 
Code:
mp3info -F /home/glenn/storage/recovery/mp3/f81018974.mp3
File: /home/glenn/storage/recovery/mp3/f81018974.mp3 
Title:   The River                      Track: 6 
Artist:  Bruce Springsteen & The E Stre 
Album:
...
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How to recover lost mp3's for free-p4 of 8.

Posted 05-11-2010 at 11:18 PM by GlennsPref

Code:
The xargs manpage reveals more on how the find command works....
man xargs excerpt... 
Code:
EXAMPLES 
       find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f 

       Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them.   Note  that  this  will 
       work incorrectly if there are any filenames containing newlines or spaces. 

       find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
...
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How to recover lost mp3's for free-p3 of 8. (formatting, sheesh!)

Posted 05-11-2010 at 11:16 PM by GlennsPref

Code:
Code:
png: 77 recovered
ogg: 60 recovered
gpg: 6 recovered
others: 8 recovered
you need to quit each page until you are back in the bare shell. Post-recovery clean-up Prior to sorting and renaming, and the last job we need to do as root, is change the file permissions to my user and group. In my case, user glenn and group glenn with chown and chmod to make them readable,writeable and executable.
Code:
sudo chown -hR glenn:glenn /home/glenn/storage/recovery
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How to recover lost mp3's for free-p2 of 8.

Posted 05-11-2010 at 11:11 PM by GlennsPref

If you can't unmount the drive you may be able to use a bootable GNU/Linux flash-stick, like slax and knoppix live distributions.

I pulled up Photorec on the screen, cli mode, type 'photorec' at the prompt. (reminder, you need to be root)
What is displayed on the screen is a list of physical drives on the system, navigate with the cursor keys and select(hit enter to continue) the drive the data you want to recover may be found (Last Know Address). Make sure you highlight...
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How to recover lost mp3's for free.

Posted 05-11-2010 at 11:09 PM by GlennsPref

Glenn Waller May 2010
How to recover lost mp3's for free.
suitable for one user system users, administrators and technicians
time to do? 45Min approx.
programs used,
GNU/Linux (Mandriva 2010.1) Kernel 2.6.32.3-2mnb_x86_64
Photorec partition data recovery tool
find to list and sort files
EasyTag to recover file names from tags

You'll need root access to use Photorec, su or sudo to root in your shell, type...
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