What do you use for Outlook Express deleted e-mails

No, unfortunately it doesn't seem like *ANY* tool is capable of doing so the corrupted 4 bytes every 512 seem like being too much for any of the apps I tried.

Have you tried the gimp? I recollect (at least older verions) to hint to corruption in more detail .e.g. section such-and-such error such-and-such.

The following is a long shot; for revit07 I've written a tool called detest. It can validate a file according to a structure defined in a configuration file; and JPEG comes with the default configuration. However it has been a while since I last used it and cannot remember if I build in detailed reporting. I'll take a look and let you know.

Additional
gimp 2.6 and eog seem to provide some info about the corruption.

As a quick test I did overwrite some of the section headers, e.g.
Corrupt JPEG data 254721 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Invalid JPEG file structure missing SOS marker

Corrupt JPEG data 69 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Quantization table 0x00 was not defined

Note that gimp will provide more info when open a file after you start gimp, instead of passing the file as a parameter.

For now detest would be probably not helpful. It provides some info in verbose mode but this will be hard to interpret. I also recall the exiftools being able to do structural analysis of JPEGs.

No, the gimp is not a solution, with some corrupted images it behaves like you describe, with some, simply throws an error, maybe an "interesting", "hinting" error, but not enough IMHO to be of actual usefulness.
But thanks for the idea. )
I guess I'll need to get down to studying the JPEG format(s), it seems like there are quite a few of them.

I'll post as soon as I have some time to do the above and manage to put together one of my half-@§§ed batches.

jaclaz

If you are trying to recover picture files I would recommend Adroit from Digital Assembly. I have used it with very good success.

If you are trying to recover picture files I would recommend Adroit from Digital Assembly.

Thanks, but I don't see anything on their site
http//digital-assembly.com/products/adroit-photo-forensics/

about the specific issue, which is
"recover jpeg from e-mail attachments contained in an Outlook Express deleted .dbx"

I have used it with very good success.

Have you used it for this specific chore?

Maybe this particular feature
http//digital-assembly.com/products/adroit-photo-forensics/features/guidedcarving.html
is helpful in this case? ?

jaclaz

I'm going to second the adroit photo forensics idea, I have used this product and although I havent used it against this particular file, I have used it against others which other image carvers have failed to aquire anything from.

Failing that how about another free image carver (C4All) see if that brings anything back?

Solving problems associated with dbx files effectively decides dbx repair tool. It doesn't modify source data of dbx files during recovering, works under any PC software configurations and Windows OS. The application uses modern methods of recovering oe data. The program has clear and easy to use interface.

nedved31 thank you for pushing your product. )
Since you clearly are involved in that tool, can you answer this simple question
Can it rebuild the overwritten sets of 4 bytes that OE makes when you delete something?
(it is not difficult, a yes or no will be enough)

I'm going to second the adroit photo forensics idea, I have used this product and although I havent used it against this particular file, I have used it against others which other image carvers have failed to aquire anything from.

I don't want to seem more grumpy than usual roll , but I do have a tool (a hammer) that I used successfully and with extremely good results to drive nails into wooden planks.
I rate it as an excellent tool.
Still I wouldn't use it (nor recommend it) to unscrew a T-5 screw from a Seagate 7200.11. 😯

Failing that how about another free image carver (C4All) see if that brings anything back?

Do you have a link to this tool?
Though cannot say if it can be the solution to the problem at hand, it may be useful for something else, thanks.

jaclaz