How to recover deleted files with foremost on Linux - LinuxConfig.org

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In this article we will talk about foremost, a very useful open source forensic utility which is able to recover deleted files using the technique called data carving. The utility was originally developed by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and is able to recover several file types (support for specific file types can be added by the user, via the configuration file). The program can also work on partition images produced by dd or similar tools.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-recover-deleted-files-with-foremost-on-linux
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Hello Egidio , thanx for the comprehensive article.

Mbox files, when I browse into Mozilla Thunderbird folders, the mbox data are only a file with no extension, and this file contains all emails in a specific folder.
If by utilizing Foremost carving tool, I try to recover mbox emails, how can I tell Foremost to recognize the file-less file and recover it as mbox or whatever format (I assume Fremost skips the files since I recoverd none; or was an .ole file)?

Thanx