Duplicate File Names, what happens ?

[roberto.gelleni]

Hi, I have a question about the program.

I have a 40 gig drive with 2 partitions, and all of a sudden one of the two shows up as a "raw" file system, with 0 size. No good, considering I have 14 gigs of data to recover. Before I even start, I am trying to learn as much as I can.

One issue that came to mind, is that in the partition that I am going to recover files from, I *know* for a fact that I had several folders with JPG files in them and some of those had the same file-name.

In other words, FolderA would have IMG_002 and IMG_005 and FolderB would have, among others, files named IMG_002 and IMG_005.
Different files, same file name, in different folders.

I know, it's terrible practice, but it was one of those things I was "going to fix, ..tomorrow".

Now, a friend suggested the use of ZAR and told me that it does not recover the folder tree structure, and that is fine with me. My question IS, how does it handle if it recovers a file with file-name identical to a file just recovered and already in the "recovery" drive ? I hope I didn't confuse you guys.

Roberto.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

There are two modes in ZAR.

1. Digital image recovery ("Recover images from a digital camera memory card"). In this mode, there are no file names and no folder structure recovered. All images are just renumbered in arbitrary way, like "i_00001, i_00002". The problem of duplicate names does not apply here.

2. Filesystem reconstruction mode ("Recover data from a simple volume"). In this mode, you should get your directory tree back, so files which are same name/different folders are OK as well.

[roberto.gelleni]

Alex, thank you very much for the prompt reply.
Tomorrow morning I will start the recovery process, I really hope it all goes well !