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please help me finding a solution to the following problem:

I have a folder on my W7-NTFS drive with saved webpages

files in this folder have been lost, some of the contents of which I have found randomly stored in .chk file format (I think this is W7 chkdsk performing)

Now, the only retraceably memory of these files seems to lie in the XAPIAN db-file of the recoll index I updated some while ago. I can search for the contents of these lost files, but Recoll cannot open them because they don't properly exist any more.

What I would like to do is being able to compare the contents of my present folder to the files recoll indexed before data was lost. That way I know exactly what other files got lost and could restore them by fetching them in the web.

Many thanks for your input.

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At least with recent Recoll versions, a query language request like:

dir:/path/to/dir

should return all files which lived in the subtree under dir.

If you switch to the table mode display for the results, you can use the Results->Save as CSV menu entry to produce an easily processed listing.

If the data is very precious, there are also ways to retrieve a raw likeness of the text contents from the index data.

Hope this helps. I'm not too sure I'll get a notice if this page is updated, so don't hesitate to reach me through the contact on the Recoll web site if you need more help.

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