[HELP]Text File data recovery

[Ghazi]

Hi, Hope all of you are doing well. I want to know that I recovered two text files from R-Studio 8.5 Network build 170237. But they are unreadable. Checking on google I found that their encoding method is changed. Not sure on how I can make them simple English again. If any one can decode them

Downloads_1.txt

Downloads_2.txt

[Rekkio]

Here's what I could find:

• Your first text file looks random (unrecoverable)
• Your second text file is a .gz compressed file, according to TrIDNet (a binary file identifier)

I renamed the second file appending the .gz extension next to it.

 

None of my other tools except a software called WinMount could extract it without error:

 

I tried WinRAR & 7-Zip, then finally WinMount.

 

There's a file in the .gz archive is called Downloads_2.txt but it's a JFIF (JPEG) file, according to TrIDNet.

 

Here's the actual picture:

 

If you wanted to recover text files, it's not possible: the files have been overwritten

 

I suggest that you try Shadow Explorer and see if your file is still in one of your drive's previous versions.

 

 

[Ghazi]

Yes I tried to recover the Files but as You said the files are overwritten. There was a cross in R-studio indicating that they are overwritten. These are both text files which I used to keep a note of important things. 

 

59 minutes ago, Rekkio said:

There's a file in the .gz archive is called Downloads_2.txt but it's a JFIF (JPEG) file, according to TrIDNet.

No, Both are text files. None of them is a picture. Both had a .txt extension. 

 

What about xml version of the file

Downloads_1.txt

[Rekkio]

That XML looks good : Notepad++ hasn't detected any errors upon loading this file.
 

However there are some non-printable chars at the end:


 

You can remove them using Notepad++, it'll be able to show the non-printable chars.

 

You might have a previous versions of your text files on your drive, you should try Shadow Explorer.

The previous versions might be a day old, a week, but you'll atleast have recovered something

 

 

[Ghazi]

19 hours ago, Rekkio said:

That XML looks good : Notepad++ hasn't detected any errors upon loading this file.
 

However there are some non-printable chars at the end:


 

You can remove them using Notepad++, it'll be able to show the non-printable chars.

 

So can you tell me what exactly I have to do in xml format in notepad++. I was thinking it is a language problem. I thought it is showing me hex and in order to convert it to plain English I need to use a converter.

19 hours ago, Rekkio said:

You might have a previous versions of your text files on your drive, you should try Shadow Explorer.

The previous versions might be a day old, a week, but you'll atleast have recovered something

 

It is very hard that I can get the previous versions as it may already be overwritten. Also I did not had shadow Explorer installed when this happened so I can revert back to a old copy. 

Thanks for all you did

[Rekkio]

31 minutes ago, Ghazi said:

So can you tell me what exactly I have to do in xml format in notepad++. I was thinking it is a language problem. I thought it is showing me hex and in order to convert it to plain English I need to use a converter.

 

The XML file is not in hex, it's just the end of the file that contains some non-printable chars: In Notepad++ these are like any other char such as a, b, c, etc.

You can remove them just like you would select & remove some text in a document. I removed these for you incase you had trouble removing them.

However, the XML file is already in plain English; there's no need to use a converter.
 

31 minutes ago, Ghazi said:

It is very hard that I can get the previous versions as it may already be overwritten. Also I did not had shadow Explorer installed when this happened so I can revert back to a old copy. 

 

There's no risk in installing Shadow Explorer since your files are already overwritten, and 'Previous versions' of drives (or 'Shadow Copies') are files themselves, so they can't be overwritten: you can safely use Shadow Explorer to check if there's anything you can recover.

 

 

Downloads_1.txt

[Ghazi]

14 minutes ago, Rekkio said:

 

The XML file is not in hex, it's just the end of the file that contains some non-printable chars: In Notepad++ these are like any other char such as a, b, c, etc.

You can remove them just like you would select & remove some text in a document. I removed these for you incase you had trouble removing them.

However, the XML file is already in plain English; there's no need to use a converter.

Sorry for being a noob. but it is not simple english that the original File was in. Can you tell me how can I use it if its not in english

 

20 minutes ago, Rekkio said:

There's no risk in installing Shadow Explorer since your files are already overwritten, and 'Previous versions' of drives (or 'Shadow Copies') are files themselves, so they can't be overwritten: you can safely use Shadow Explorer to check if there's anything you can recover.

I had system restore off So can I use shadow Explorer in that case

[knowledge-Spammer]

is text  in chinese

do it have things like soldier  or blocking  domain in the text ?

[Ghazi]

8 minutes ago, knowledge said:

is text  in chinese

do it have things like soldier  or blocking  domain in the text ?

No it was in plain English. 

What do you mean by text contain " things like soldier  or blocking  domain in the text ? "

 

The Files weer deleted and were overwriten. So I thought I could encode them. But now there is no way??