Re: Image recovery: Recovering fragmented image files from flash memory cards

"Hans-Peter Diettrich" <DrDiettrich1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> FAT32 appends files until the end of the medium is reached. This is an
optimization to prevent file segmentation. Deleted files 
> are overwritten only after the medium is full.
>
> DoDi

FAT32 does not do this - that is a task for the OS or, perhaps, the media
controller. Whether a particular camera or memory card 
controller would do this when writing to the media is entirely up to the
card or camera's maker. I know of none that have published 
anything to the effect that their's behaves this way. In fact, for digital
media, doing so is pointless from an optimisation 
standpoint.

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cmyk