tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948491385627856949.post8924070526468087165..comments2023-05-09T04:20:29.082-04:00Comments on Lost In The Flood: Using Foremost to recover files from a dead hard driveGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665093833913085619noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948491385627856949.post-46777413333414398292011-10-18T10:52:03.340-04:002011-10-18T10:52:03.340-04:00Excuse me for dredging up an old post, but just in...Excuse me for dredging up an old post, but just in case anyone searching for info on foremost stubles across this (as I did):<br /><br />docx is an internal / automatic extraction setting for foremost as well. You just have to use the 'zip' file type, as .docx files are zipped XML, like .odt etc.<br /><br />I usually work with .odt, so when I get back hundreds of them, I write a shell script to unzip them (specifically "content.xml", which contains what the user actually wrote), and grep that for a particular phrase (paying attention to various whitespace and line-ending issues which can arise).<br /><br />If the file matches, the script constructs as indicative a filename as possible from various meta information which the file format includes, and saves the file in an output directory.<br /><br />Since .docx is all XML, I'd assume the same should be possible there without much bother.<br /><br />Today I'm after a .doc though, so not sure if the above will be possible. Unzipping .docs always gives me an error, indicating they're not simply zipped XML? So I'm not sure if appropriate meta-info is available for .doc, unfortunately.<br /><br />To add a possible complication, it was a .doc file created with Word 2007... but I'm making an assumption that MS would keep the file format indicated by that extention the same despite the newer version of Word.ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057054783141319246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948491385627856949.post-2410876671040543212011-03-23T22:40:33.070-04:002011-03-23T22:40:33.070-04:00For mission critical databases, you should have re...For mission critical databases, you should have redundant backup sets that can even extend for several backup periods. There are scenarios in which organizations keep databases backups for years to meet the legal compliance.file repairhttp://www.officerecovery.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948491385627856949.post-42640978182544694512011-03-23T22:02:41.600-04:002011-03-23T22:02:41.600-04:00It is recommended to always use the demo first to ...It is recommended to always use the demo first to get an overview of how the full version will perform on a particular set of data.database repair toolhttp://www.officerecovery.com/noreply@blogger.com