Thomas Jenkins
recovering from invalid data
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I was ironically getting ready to gzip my home directory to do a backup and i decided to peep in my revelation file (named default) with vi. I didn't make any changes, and was going to exit but accidentally typed :wq (which saves the file then quits). Alas, now revelation gives me the invalid data message. I have lots of passwords that I have randomly generated that would be nice to get back. Any chance of recovery? I don't know what vi wrote to the file, but I defiantly didn't add anything in myself.
Sorry if this shouldn't be posted here and thanks so much.
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Thomas Jenkins
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Mikel Olasagasti Uranga
- changed status to wontfix
vi modifies the binary file.
I've tested creating an entry on a new file and:
root@ubuntu-64:# cp issue2 issue2.orig root@ubuntu-64:# md5sum issue2 issue2.orig 2f598e4db8545a1e1c6c47af8e0ada8b issue2 2f598e4db8545a1e1c6c47af8e0ada8b issue2.orig root@ubuntu-64:# vi issue2 root@ubuntu-64:# md5sum issue2 issue2.orig 05d553613da20e145bfd96ff21ee33da issue2 2f598e4db8545a1e1c6c47af8e0ada8b issue2.orig root@ubuntu-64:# cat issue2 rvl�� � �,�[xН�]�y��u���G);��l�#� ,u������:]J8>��az8�!������P{�n�i�)�y�[}ɱ5 NODG�Ft?�{:\��G��h� [�� ���g>-.q�>m�2�o���P�tN]o��,z�]B� t������d��źH+ijYNE����^.�vڝN root@ubuntu-64:# cat issue2.orig rvl�� � �,�[xН�]�y��u���G);��l�#� ,u������:]J8>��az8�!������P{�n�i�)�y�[}ɱ5 NODG�Ft?�{:\��G��h� [�� ���g>-.q�>m�2�o���P�tN]o��,z�]B� t������d��źH+ijYNE����^.�vڝNroot@ubuntu-64:#
Could be fixed removing what vi added but I think this is out of the scope of revelation
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Perhaps vi added a newline to the end which I believe it does automatically.