Hi, just got my external hard drive back after it packed in. Someone has run some recovery software on it and it has retreived most of the files, but theyre all named file 1, file 2, file 3 etc and sorted into new folders by their type, ie avi's mp3's etc. I can sort most of them (unless theres an easier way of renaming 100Gb of songs etc other than doing it one by one ), but my main problem is that theres about 10Gb of .arj files and a couple of .btr files which i cant get to open and i cant think what they would be. A quick google search suggested it was some sort of archiving system but i dont know about that because it should only be stuff that ive put on there like photos movies etc. Im not too fussed about it but 10Gb seems a lot as if ive forgotten something that should be on there. Any body any ideas??

Arj is just the same zip i.e. a compressed archive go to
http://www.arjsoftware.com
for the tool to extract (although I think winzip has an option or plugin that will do it too)

Cheers

Alex
PS
The .btr files shoudl be btrieve database files

From http://filext.com/
BTR Btrieve Database File (Pervasive Software Inc.)
BTR FrontPage Binary-Tree Index (Microsoft)

They also (http://www.ozinsight.com/support.html) seem to be used by a usenet news program (Ozum?)

Thanks ill give them a try