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Can qic files be browsed?
- Thread starter scallosa
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The only way that I know of is to start the restore process. You could pretend that you are going to do a selective restore, then you can examine the contents as if you were choosing which files to restore. Just cancel out of the restore when you're done.
scallosa
you didn't mention where the (qic) file was. I take that this is a MS backup file and not a tape format.
We have found that different MS os's write the qic format differently between the os's. There are variances. Since MS does not support the format there is very little information on it.
sorry couldn't help more.
Klon Shugart
Data Recovery Specialist
CCNA/MCP2K/CDRT
Microsoft Certified Partners
you didn't mention where the (qic) file was. I take that this is a MS backup file and not a tape format.
We have found that different MS os's write the qic format differently between the os's. There are variances. Since MS does not support the format there is very little information on it.
sorry couldn't help more.
Klon Shugart
Data Recovery Specialist
CCNA/MCP2K/CDRT
Microsoft Certified Partners
Hi:
I recently got interested in this, and can probably
tell you more than you want to know about the internal
file format. I even typed some of it up since its
not well documented.
See
If its a file on disk or CDrom you can get at it,
but if its compressed its pretty messy to try to browse.
I'm close to having a decompressor for the version
of *.qic produced by the MSBackUP that came with WinME.
Its easy to get a directory listing of a compressed or
uncompressed archive. If its text files you want to look at
(ie not binary data like a *.pdf) and you uncompress
the archive you can view it with most editors.
Hence my interest in a decompressor.
Given the way the compression works, they appear to
to blocks of compressed data in 30K segments. Its
possible to decompress a segment at a time so you don't
have a huge file lying around, but I haven't figure out
if there is a way to determine which segment contains
which file without decompressing it. The other problem
is that files cross segment boundries....
Will
I recently got interested in this, and can probably
tell you more than you want to know about the internal
file format. I even typed some of it up since its
not well documented.
See
If its a file on disk or CDrom you can get at it,
but if its compressed its pretty messy to try to browse.
I'm close to having a decompressor for the version
of *.qic produced by the MSBackUP that came with WinME.
Its easy to get a directory listing of a compressed or
uncompressed archive. If its text files you want to look at
(ie not binary data like a *.pdf) and you uncompress
the archive you can view it with most editors.
Hence my interest in a decompressor.
Given the way the compression works, they appear to
to blocks of compressed data in 30K segments. Its
possible to decompress a segment at a time so you don't
have a huge file lying around, but I haven't figure out
if there is a way to determine which segment contains
which file without decompressing it. The other problem
is that files cross segment boundries....
Will
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