advice for data recovery

[Robin Laing]

Robin Laing wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Todd Denniston wrote:
>>> Dave Stevens wrote, On 11/10/2008 04:56 PM:
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
> 
>>>> So does anyone know of a program I can use to only copy files that are
>>>> not damaged? I can sort out the teenies, but don't see how to proceed
>>>> after that. 
>>> man ImageMagick
>>> man identify
>>> man convert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I wounder if Jpeg Rescue would help in this case?
>>
>> http://codesink.org/recover.html
>>
>> Mikkel
>>
> 
> I have not tried identify or convert and will have to test them.
> 

I played with identify and convert (which to my embarrassment are part 
of ImageMagick) and found identify did provide necessary info.  Now 
working on a script to automate the process.

Of course, identify will list all damaged files as damaged and yet they 
may be partially usable.

More playing.

-- 
Robin Laing