FOSS tools for reading COM/OLE structured storage files

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 17:51:08 EDT 2008


  What's the *data* stored inside?  As far as a corrupted drive, if
the files where corrupted..

  Well, good luck with that.  :-D

On 8/4/08, Larry Cook <lcook at sybase.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience using FOSS tools for reading COM/OLE
> structured storage[1] files?
>
> I'm going to look at POIFS[2] and OLE::Storeage[3] but was wondering if
> someone has a recommendation based on experience.
>
> Also, here's the *REAL* trick: The FAT32 filesystem containing the file
> in question was corrupted and scandisk has happily saved pieces of the
> original file in separate FILEXXXX.CHK files.  What are the odds that
> all the pieces are there and I can put them back together in the right
> order?

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-- Thomas


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