recoverpy
Interactively find and recover deleted or overwritten files from your terminal
TLDR
Launch the recovery TUI
$ sudo recoverpy
Run via pipx without installing$ sudo pipx run recoverpy
SYNOPSIS
recoverpy [options]
DESCRIPTION
recoverpy is a terminal tool for interactively recovering deleted or overwritten files. It scans raw partition data directly, searching for byte patterns across the entire block device. Unlike other recovery tools, it can recover both deleted files and overwritten data by scanning every block on the selected partition.
CAVEATS
Requires sudo for block device access. Does not reconstruct files automatically or infer file boundaries — results may be partial or fragmented. If blocks have already been overwritten, recovery is not possible.
HISTORY
recoverpy was created by PabloLec and is written in Python.
