Undelete hatred

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From: Zach White
Subject: Undelete hatred
Date: 02:58 on 18 Nov 2006
Undeleting a file on a FAT32 disk is a pretty simple thing. You troll the
FS looking for filenames that have been marked as deleted. Then you see if 
all the data for said file is available. You'd think that by now someone 
would have written a simple program to do that under some sort of open 
source license.

Apparently not. 

Of the many programs listed on download.com as "free", half of them are 
crippled versions of costly utilities, 1/3rd of them only work for certain 
file types, and the rest aren't actually undelete utilities.

I finally try FreeUndelete. It actually finds the files I'm after. So I
click on the enclosing directory, tell it to restore, and I get a crash
dialog. Lovely. I have to select each file individually.

If it were only that, I wouldn't be writing this. No, it does the most
infuriating thing any software can do. It pops up a dialog box. After.
Every. Single. File. It. Recovers.

HATE

-Zach

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