🚀 go-pugleaf

Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <8fi2r2$g0h$1@warren.leverton.org>, Nick Leverton
><nick@leverton.org> writes
>>In article <Gmg6BBAeVFH5EwX6@btinternet.com>,
>>Tom Bird  <tombird@btinternet.com> wrote:
>[recover.exe]
>>>That's the one that splits a directory into little files isn't it?
>>
>>Not quite : it renames every single file and directory on the disk as
>>something like FILE0001, FILE0002, et cetera.  They're all still there,
>>just not very retrievably named ...

>Sounds completely useless.

Not if you have under say 20 files on a disk.

On disks with a few thousand files, it's more or less useless.

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