On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 06:22:34PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:

*SKIP*
> I tried magicrescue. But it kept finding many many starts for mp3
> files, and running a script for each one to see if it was really and
> mp3 file, in the course of which writing file hundreds of megbytes
> long, deciding it wasn't mp3 after all and deleting it.
>
> Far too slow. Running for a full 18 hours found nothing, and it
> looked as if it had searched ony a fraction of the 32G SDXC card.

Sorry for wasting your time -- I didn't know this component is in such
bad shape.

> I then used WxHexEdit, a hex editor, in immediate update mode. It found
> the troublesome file names, and I replaced the slashes by zeros. After
> that it was easy to read those files.

Are we cool now?

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