Python and lost files

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Thu Oct 1 22:49:36 EDT 2009


On 2009-10-01, Timothy W. Grove <tim_grove at sil.org> wrote:

> Recently I purchased some software to recover some files which
> I had lost. (A python project, incidentally! Yes, I should
> have kept better backups!) They were nowhere to found in the
> file system, nor in the recycle bin, but this software was
> able to locate them and restore them.  I was just wondering if
> there was a way using python to view and recover files from
> the hard drive which would otherwise remain lost forever?

Yes, you could write a filesystem analysis and file recovery
program in Python.  [I guess that's what you were asking.]

-- 
Grant



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