On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:13:55AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> Let me thank everyone for their advice; it looks as if I have enough
> ideas to try out now. I'll do that when I'm fully awake an report
> back on what worked.
*SKIP*
> > ls -l lists them like this:
> >

> > -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik       0 Sep  1  2007 06 - Track 6.mq3
> > -????????? ? ?       ?             ?            ? 07/TRA~1.MP3
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik 3585716 Sep  1  2007 08-URA~1.MP3

*CUT*

Sorry being late to the party and I have multiple confirmations to
different mails, so these went in one bag.

Yes, kernel somehow constructs i-node numbers from VFAT (which doesn't
have i-node per se). Thus, in your listing, multiple files with same
i-node -- filesystem is corrupted.

Yes, mtools can manipulate 8.3 FAT names instead of VFAT names. But, as
we confirmed, filesystem is corrupted -- it won't help either.

If everything fails -- consider magicrescue.

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