Anyone here ever use Scalpel to recover deleted files ?

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Thanks, that's how I seem to have found some of my files ...

... still trying to recover all of them (there's a lot -- hundreds).

Fortunately, I have two functioning Linux partitions on the same disk as the one that got trashed -- and all about the same size, so block size is the same. The files I am looking for all have precisely the same length, and I can check their contents by running the program that created them (slow, but effective). I found a viable hex search string by comparing several files generated by the same program on one of the bootable partitions.

I've fallen back to using the older program Foremost -- the instructions (and configuration file!) are apparently the original from which those of Scalpel were modified, minus the confusing mistake. And Foremost compiled with nary a glitch. Just need some more time and I think I'll have recovered all I can, and can resume my projects.