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1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2026 06:37:53 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Okay, I can't believe I actually trashed my 2GB microSD card which contained what little of my current Sonic fanfiction work I already had.
   
   But... this is the sysadmin you're talking about, so I spent the last hour/hour and a half going through a just created image of the microSD card's exFAT filesystem to grab the contents of the current work.
   
   Some context: on a non-journaled filesystem (which exFAT is), the following is more likely to be trashed: partition info, directory/filename info, its timestamps, and its attributes. (...the actual FAT, or File Allocation Table.) That is because all of that is stored near the beginning of the storage medium. The actual file contents could be further down and are less likely to be trashed... unless you're quite unlucky.
   
   In short, I have all my data back. 😁👍
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2026 06:41:01 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     ...Yes, I formatted the microSD card to exFAT again, but using Linux tools this time instead of the old Windows 7 PC.
     
     However, the recovered data is still on my main laptop.
     
     The primary idea was to keep interoperability between my Linux installs and what few Windows installs I do have.