I recently formatted my sysetm from frebsd to linux.in doing so,I backed up my data in a friends comp(running on windows).After I copied the data back onto my windows,all of it got corrupted.I could only open the text files in it properly.The photos are a mess and the zip files(mentioned in another thread ) went corrupt.The pdf files open as empty pages.The iso files became corrupt too.

I cannot get hold of the problem.What could it be?

How did you transfer them to your friends machine?
FTP? Forgot to turn on binary mode?


Cheers,
Tink

Yes,By FTP.I do not remember if I turned it or not.I was using the default.Is it that important?And why?

Because if you don't set binary all files will be interpreted
as being text, and DOS-Linefeeds may be inserted into
binaries (e.g. images, executables, PDFs... ) if there's a CR
character, which renders them useless. It's like randomly
adding extra bytes into them.

As far as "using the default" goes, I have no idea which
way the transfer went, and what the server you used uses.

That all said, the fact that all but text-data is butchered strongly
suggests that your data is completely stuffed for the reasons
I mentioned above.


Cheers,
Tink