recovering lost DAZ duf files and data after HDD failure

jdavison67

I had a drive fail that had my main DAZ library on it.....Yeah...sucks when that happens.

Luckily I had a backup from a few months ago... however I was able to recover some data from my old drive using disk drill...

Now, I had created a bunch of subsets over the last few months, for a project and was hoping to save these scenes and subsets....

The reocery software finds files but not always their file names. it will give them a file000000.ext  name with  the extension the software believes belongs to the file.

On recovry I was surprized to find a ton of  gz archives. named file123456.gz (the numbers are different for ech file this is just an example)... I think these are my lost .duf files.

So, I want to know.. do I open these with 7-zip and then open the file inside in DAZ or do I have to somehow save it with a .duf extension, and then import it?

JD

crosswind

I don't know "disk drill" but only use EaseUse Data Recovery... but normally if a recovery software successfully recovers some files, the files with good condition should be with their original file names.

But anyway, you can try renaming the files to DUFs and opening them with DS or Notepad++, see if you can find them work well or the codes are not corrupted.

Elor

A compressed .duf file is a standard .gz archive, so just rename the extension and if the files didn't suffer any corruption, they should open fine in Daz Studio.

jdavison67

Thanks!  

Fingers crossed 

 

JD

franky85

With some thinkering, you could extract all of them, then parse the json file (daz files are compressed (or uncompressed) json files) and extract the "id" part, it should contain the path it goes into and its actual proper filename. A major annoyance but you are still lucky you could get some data out of it.

I backup my custom morphs and textures and scenes on 3 computers and on a remote server because I have been in your shoes before, albeit before I started using Daz.