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Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 4:53pm

hidden folders (directories) or files

Hi

I will explain my problem and maybe someone will be able to help me.

Monday, my computer with windows (I KNOW...) crashed after a virus attack. My boyfriend used the the anti spyware and virus. Then, Window didnt open anymore.

We will wipe out the drive but we want to retreive our files. We use KDE live (or something like that... that's my boyfriend part, he knows more about computer then me). We were able to find most of our doucment... but some are missing (wich were there before the crash). It seems that all files with french accents in it (é, à...) dont appear in directories...

Is there is a way to retrieve them? One of this directory is really important.

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Sunday, October 14th 2007, 6:59pm

RE: hidden folders (directories) or files

>We will wipe out the drive but we want to retreive our files.
>We use KDE live (or something like that... that's my boyfriend part, he knows more about computer then me). We were able to find most of our doucment... but some are missing (wich were there before the crash). It seems that all files with french accents in it (é, à...) dont appear in directories...

First of all, I'd suggest your boyfriend posts a few more details.
What filesystem is it?
How did you access it outside of Windows ("KDE live"...)?
Knoppix is good for such tasks.
Try to mount the drive using different encoding options.
See man mount.

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Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 2:40am

RE: hidden folders (directories) or files

the windows filesystems is NTFS

i use the Knoppix DVD live to access the SATA drive and the IDE drive

we can acces everything on both of the drives ..except the folder CD a graver and daphné ..

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 3:40am

RE: hidden folders (directories) or files

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Originally posted by rouqueen
the windows filesystems is NTFS

i use the Knoppix DVD live to access the SATA drive and the IDE drive

we can acces everything on both of the drives ..except the folder CD a graver and daphné ..


See the mount options for ntfs below.
Try the nls option with different charsets.
To see the current options, do:
cat /etc/mtab
Change /etc/fstab and remount.
Try iso8859-1, iso8859-15 or whatever you used in Windows.
See man mount where this part is taken from:

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Mount options for ntfs
iocharset=name
Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters. Deprecated.
nls=name
New name for the option earlier called iocharset.
utf8
Use UTF-8 for converting file names.
uni_xlate=[0|1|2]
For 0 (or `no' or `false'), do not use escape sequences for unknown Unicode characters. For 1 (or `yes' or `true') or 2, use vfat-style 4-byte escape sequences starting with ":". Here 2 give a little-endian encoding and 1 a byteswapped bigendian encoding.
posix=[0|1]
If enabled (posix=1), the file system distinguishes between upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented as hard links instead of being suppressed.
uid=value, gid=value and umask=value
Set the file permission on the filesystem. The umask value is given in octal. By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else.


The "NTFS suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters" seems to be
exactly what happens in your case.

Good luck!