Hi there,
I am needing to recover some old jpg files from an external hard drive. I deleted the folder they were in and am trying to get them back. Recuva seems to have found the files but this is what it shows in the Recuva screen:
Size State Comment
544 bytes Excellent No Overwritten Clusters Detected
I cannot get a preview/thumbnail and when I recover the files, they are not able to be viewed. I have attached a screen cap for you to see.
Any help is appreciated, thank you
Have to tried to recovery one or several of the jpg to see if it is them and viewable?
Yes, the files will not open. They appear to be very small sized files and will not open, nor will they generate a thumbnail.
They are the index files from the recycler. When files are sent to the recycler two files are created, the data component (with a name beginning with $R) and an index component (beginning with $I). Both have the .jpg extension. The index is 544 bytes long, and is useless as far as recovery is concerned. You need to look for files with $R names, or with a length consistent with the original jpg files.