OK, a client has given me a huge task of recovering photos from free space on drives. But the drives have 1000s of photos on them that are not lost. The drives have not failed, they were just reformatted at some point and used again. So far my efforts to recover photos is really slowed because my recovery software finds and "recovers" the photos that are not lost.
And because the recovered photos are not an exact match, sorting the photos actually recovered from the others is a huge pain.
One idea I had is to securely delete the photos that are "not lost". The client has those stored separately. If I can securely delete those files, but not the free space on the drive I should then be able to recover the whole drive and not get the "not lost".
The drives (about 20 of them) are Mac OS drives.
Any ideas?
And because the recovered photos are not an exact match, sorting the photos actually recovered from the others is a huge pain.
One idea I had is to securely delete the photos that are "not lost". The client has those stored separately. If I can securely delete those files, but not the free space on the drive I should then be able to recover the whole drive and not get the "not lost".
The drives (about 20 of them) are Mac OS drives.
Any ideas?