data recovery

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 07:27:55AM -0400, Robert F. Kennedy wrote:
> It is a quickbook file.  .qbw

That's unfortunate.  If it was a common and well documented file, there
are tools that almost always manage to recover things like that (like
photorec from the testdisk package, which does lots of photo video and
audio filetypes).

Any idea of the size of a quickbook file?  Do you have other quickbook
files that could show what the header looks like?

It might still be possible to locate the file though.  There is a good
chance with ext3 that the file will have been stored consequtively, which
means you just have to find the start of the file and dump from there.

How big of a disk is this?

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Len Sorensen
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