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Software => TrID File Identifier => Topic started by: Mark0 on October 10, 2006, 01:12:17 AM

Title: Success stories!
Post by: Mark0 on October 10, 2006, 01:12:17 AM
Found TrID useful? It helped you open a file, recover a photo, etc.?
Feel free to post here! :)

Thanks,
Bye!
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Mark0 on October 10, 2006, 01:13:49 AM
A couple of quotes from the old forum:

Quote from: Dinoguy1000
Hasn't helped me like that yet, but it might! W00T! :D

Quote from: Bubba X
I'm impressed.  I had a Windows user who had received a file via email that neither of us could identify.  I went online looking for a file type identifier.  My only other qualifier was that it was free.

Your product came up on the first page of my search and I ran the online version on one of my files.  Viola!  It turns out the sender had MacBin'ed (Macintosh compression) their file before they sent it out - and I highly doubt that I would have found that out if I hadn't found TriD.

Needless to say, this is going into my "toolbox" of useful software.

Thanks for putting this out there for us!

Bubba
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: m^2 on December 29, 2006, 11:43:17 PM
I identified many files with weird extensions as dlls or executables, all they were plugins or internal files of some programs.
Thanks, Marco.
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Lutz on June 02, 2007, 01:26:22 AM
hey
After marks help, TrID is know running and does a succesfull job!!!
Greetingz
Ma
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: smne on July 15, 2007, 01:55:55 AM
oh my god, it saved my life. I HATE JUMPERS ON HDD, thats all. I thought that I'm just so good in all of this computer stuff, and anything can surprise me.
I was trying to make a clean disk image, so i've connected an 'home' hdd to my comp, just after 10 minutes of fight with jumpers. everything was ok until the winxp checkdisk. Jumpers were in wrong positions, so my comp detected the 40 gig hdd as 32 gig, so checkdisk was so confused when met files on area, where should be end of disk. Unfortunately, my last partition was the most important drive for me, full of documents and stuff like pictures, movies. After the scan it was just a pile of FILE000X.CHK files (to be more exact it was a 2'000-piece pile...)
Without Trid i would have to determine all filetypes manually, it would take years I suppose. This program is brilliant, and extremally useful. I couldn't find any similar prog, so trid is for me now the one and only!

BIG BIG thanks. I hate jumpers anyway. Now going back to sorting files ;)
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Stefan on September 08, 2007, 04:03:49 PM
This program is incredible useful and the best part of it is that you can use it on linux :)
Just something that I noticed; since linux is case-sensitive on filenames, triddefs.trd can't be found unless you rename it after you have downloaded it, either it should look for "TrIDDefs.TRD" or the download should already have it in lowercase.
Thanks!
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Woody on November 04, 2007, 10:36:17 PM
Marco,

Seu programa ? maravilhoso e muito ?til! Parab?ns! Continue com o ?timo trabalho!

Woody,
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Jon on November 15, 2007, 09:43:36 PM
TrID is compiled from WIN and AWESOME.

Unfortunately, the file that originally prompted me to download TrID ended up actually being corrupt, but this little tool has gone into my permanent repertoire of useful tools that I can't live without.

If I wasn't a poor (as in cashless, not as in un-l33t) support tech, I'd donate. Good job man.

Jon
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Pierre HOPQUIN on December 03, 2007, 07:14:15 PM
Tryied on one file downloaded from internet, it appears to be "nothing" , just a fake file... ( with a maximum result of 24 % )

I never used this software before, but looks really promising :) nice work Mark0 !!

Bye
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Gustav on February 07, 2008, 03:34:57 AM
 :o :o :o :o
This soft is a fu**ing must-have.

Photoshop, Imageready, fireworks, picasa; (on PC).
none of the above could read the mac illustrator saved files I had (no extensions).
So I googled, I googled and I googled some more after ways to recognize mac illustrator pics on a pc.

TrID figured them all out in *no time* and after adding extensions by hand, problem solved.
Shame on blotware Ad*be etc. - Grace to TrID!!!!
 ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Mike on May 09, 2008, 01:10:03 PM
Thank you, this is a great utility,
would be even better if you could compress the definition file such as with LZMA SDK.
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: ArcyQwerty on May 30, 2008, 03:27:07 AM
Great program
I tested it on a few things and it works ;P

Too bad I can't identify what I need to...
But great program that I will add to my toolbox and use in the future

~

I would donate but I don't have a credit card ;(
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: kyrub on December 16, 2008, 03:07:17 PM
I have got about 4000 chk files after a portaqble HDD crash. Great work, this stuff,  a lot of files back in one hour.
Especially nice were somepreviously modified personal photos, I couldn't retrieve them with Unchk utility.

Thanks, Marco!
Title: saved me .. would never guessed this pdf was TARred.. lol thanks!
Post by: Simon on March 10, 2009, 06:03:00 AM
saved me ..   would never guessed this pdf was TARred.. lol  thanks!
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: webwizard on June 04, 2009, 11:53:11 PM
I used it to successfully identify a ratDVD file. I didn't even know such a format existed ! A precious tool for the system admin. IMHO, every single prize you won with this software is well deserved. Thanks and compliments are due...

Paul
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Mark0 on September 03, 2010, 06:56:46 PM
Here's a story about TrID:

How to recover files from corrupt Norton 360 backup disks (http://dominicself.co.uk/blog/item/2010/09/how-to-recover-files-from-corrupt-norton-360-backup-disks)

 ;)
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: ben on March 29, 2011, 06:45:16 PM
Hi, this app is wonderfully effective, combined with photorec files ..
By the way, is there a way to make this app recursive in folders ? thx
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Mark0 on March 30, 2011, 07:26:29 PM
A recursive folder search will be added on a next version.

Thanks,
Bye!
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: charles(yh) on April 28, 2011, 03:23:59 AM
Good tools,good man!
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Erik Siers on July 11, 2013, 02:19:01 AM
I can't believe it's been 2 years since the release of 2.11. Imagine... 2 years without a bug. Take that, Microsoft! :)
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: pdupreez on August 04, 2018, 09:28:26 PM
This program doesn't get the credit it deserves. It is THE tool I have been looking for such a long time. I have over about 30 years of my computer hobby life collected upward of 100TB of data, a large portion of which is music, photos etc. The music I collected in the old days from copying of CD's, Vinyl etc before CDDB, Shazam, MusicBrainz, AccousticID and all the other great tools that exist today was duplicated, moved, renamed and mangled any which way, with my many unsuccessful attempts to get control over the 300000 music files I know have, with probably 90% of them duplicates. I would rename the files to another extension, like .old, .old(2) etc (I don't even remember today what the workflow was when I did it), but there are more than 123 000 such files. Duplicate file cleaners have also progressed to the point where you can almost trust the outcome, and I needed a tool to rename the files to their old extension so that I can identify type of media file (mp3, wav, wma, flac etc) as some are more preferable than others.

For years I could not find any tool out there until I recently came across TrID. I do not know how I have never come across this tool before. With your Powershell Script I can traverse my music folders and rename those extension in 1,2,3 (weeks, unfortunately).

What does TrID do when it renames (-ce option) to a file that already exist in the same folder?

Thanks again, this tool should be advertised/made visible more

Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: Mark0 on August 06, 2018, 05:36:44 PM
Thanks for the kind words!

What does TrID do when it renames (-ce option) to a file that already exist in the same folder?

The new file name is "uniquifed", adding a progressive number to the name, like in:

Code: [Select]
picture.jpg       picture.jpg
picture.dat  -->  picture (2).jpg
picture.chk       picture (3).jpg
Title: Re: Success stories!
Post by: pdupreez on August 08, 2018, 01:08:26 PM
Excellent, thank you