fzabkar wrote:I can't answer your question, but could it be that DMDE is bothering you with duplicate file names only because Windows is insensitive to case, not DMDE itself?
I believe that's the root of the problem. Dmitry responded very promptly to my e-mail (thanks!) and asked if both source and destination drives were using non-windows file systems. They are (Ext3 & HFS/HFS+) but it seems Windows itself is the culprit.
...have you considered mounting an ext3 or ext2 volume (with an appropriate Windows file system driver) and then recovering your files to the ext3 volume? Alternatively you might like to recover your files to a network drive.
I've installed MacDrive (trial) and a drive pre-formatted on a Mac, and DMDE can access them okay as source and destination drives. Other than the renaming of duplicate folder/file names, and the occasional file error, the recovery is progressing well. The repeated requests for how to handle duplicates have stopped, having happened just a few times.
Last night, I tried accessing the data using a live Mint CD and it just sees inodes. My Mac sees the 4TB clone containing the Ext3 data partition but can't enumerate the partitions. ReclaiMe proved no more help but I forget exactly what it saw (didn't take notes and my mind was boggled by then).
My next step is to inquire about the Linux version of DMDE (thanks, Brian!). If I can use it, I will recover the data to the HFS drive and my customer would be happy to just stick that in an external enclosure and access his files that way.
Cheers,
Larry