On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Aleve Sicofante<
asicofante@...> wrote:
> My home partition was destroyed by repartitioning the disk with
> Paragon Partition Manager. Now I'm recovering data from that disk with
> utilities such as PhotoRec, R-Linux and Stellar.
>
> As you may know, these utilities don't really recover the original
> files, but search for chunks of data that look like a known type.
>
> I would like to know what should I search among the myriad of unnamed
> recovered files in order to bring back my notes in Tomboy.
Generally, note files are stored in ~/.tomboy with names like
12eb10ac-8387-4dde-ac18-d8483cdbeb34.note. They are XML files and
look this (random note from my collection):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<note version="0.3"
xmlns:link="
http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/link"
xmlns:size="
http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/size"
xmlns="
http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy">
<title>Lizzy's Number</title>
<text xml:space="preserve"><note-content version="">Lizzy's Number
555-555-5555</note-content></text>
<last-change-date>2008-10-23T05:15:56.2204690+01:00</last-change-date>
<last-metadata-change-date>2009-07-06T00:04:06.3950000+01:00</last-metadata-change-date>
<create-date>2008-10-23T05:05:37.6969720+01:00</create-date>
<cursor-position>0</cursor-position>
<width>0</width>
<height>0</height>
<x>-1</x>
<y>-1</y>
<open-on-startup>False</open-on-startup>
</note>
So searching for files containing things like "<note" or
"<note-content" should probably be sufficient.
Hope this helps,
Sandy
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