Lost+Found folder, data recovery, idea?

[Caennanu]

Gday all,

 

Since i recently lost a whole lot of my data. (after investigation, it was eventually all user error) I now have a big lost+found folder.

In this folder are a ton of filers and folders that have limited / no attributes.

 

I have however found that many of them still contain data that can be read. For some reason GIMP seems to be able to detect a whole lot of them and is able to view their original content.

Now i have also found DROID (Digital Record Object IDentification), which seems to do the same. But can only create a list and not actually restore the file type en-masse. Same with Gimp.

 

So i was wondering. Is there perhaps any app available to the community app or perhaps in development that could perhaps use the XML generated by the DROID scan, to atleast 'rename' the file type extension to the files in the lost and found folder? Wondering what i can recover. But its too much to do by hand, and i'm not handy enough to write me a script.

Edited July 10, 2022 by Caennanu