Does carving provide insight such as the date a file was deleted, the location it had been stored in and when and how many times it had been opened on the system? thanks
No. Carving is a process for purely finding data based of attributes of data (header/footer) etc.
Deleted file recovery uses metadata to recover files and this may provide that information, even if the file itself is not recoverable.
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Does carving provide insight such as the date a file was deleted, the location it had been stored in and when and how many times it had been opened on the system? thanks
This is a good question, but also one that can be answered by thinking about what's being looked for.
Specifically, if file carving with file system unallocated space is the issue in question (one can also carve for individual records), using tools such as foremost, scalpel, PhotoRec, or commercial products such as XWays, then what we're looking at is recovering deleted files independent of file system metadata. This would include such things as file name and path, deletion date, etc.