Re: Image recovery: Recovering fragmented image files from flash

cmyk wrote:

> Under the FAT system, if you delete a file, as one might do with a poor 
> shot, then it's space is simply marked as being available for re-use. If

> that file happens not to have been the last one written, then there is a

> good chance that either the next file written to the media, or the one 
> after that, will be fragmented.

FAT32 appends files until the end of the medium is reached. This is an 
optimization to prevent file segmentation. Deleted files are overwritten 
only after the medium is full.

DoDi