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Question Fixing a .json file after recovery???

FreeMaster69

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Hi I hope someone can help me, I deleted a lot of my most recent scene .json files by mistake and when I used 4ddig to recover the deleted files they don't work. When I open in notepad the file is unreadable with a different type of language all together.

This is just a part of what I see when I open the .json---

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Look at the first few bytes of the file. If they look like "ÿØÿà^@^PJFIF" then what you're looking at is the jpg file, not the json.
 
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Thanks for the info. I am trying to find and recover the .json files using a paid version of tenorshare 4ddig but not having much luck with repair/recovery process.
 
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I used Recuva at one point to recover some deletions. It was partly successful, but nothing outside of forensic software can recover everything.
 
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