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Asked: 2026-06-03T00:39:01+00:00

I managed to recover some files from a lost back-up but without extension. Opening

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I managed to recover some files from a lost back-up but without extension. Opening the file in a “text” editor doesn’t provide any hint of what type of file it is.

I’ve uploaded a file here.

If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

ps. I know it’s not a real “programming question” but I suppose this is the best place to ask

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s a binary file without confidence by running chardet command:

    $ chardet Recovered004
Recovered004: None (confidence: 0.00)

    These is no magic string in the header by running file command:

    $ file Recovered004
Recovered004: data

    It can be any unknown binary formatted data.

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