O/T Need help / advice recovering file from an iPod

[richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)]

Not that OT, actually.  And for that reason I'm about to make you cry and wish that you had a backup of your host computer.

iOS is Mac OS X with a different GUI and running on an ARM-based core instead of x86.  Same XNU built on the same Mach microkernel and FreeBSD kernel.  Same user space tools.  Same HFS+ file system with POSIX translation.  Same multi-process scheduler.  In other words, it's UNIX.

And your son scribbled all over the freed blocks on that file system when he did the resync.  A forensic data recovery specialist may be able to recover the data from the flash chip but you're not going to get it from PhoneDisk or a jailbreak.

But a question: how many times did you run the iTunes backup on the iPT between recording and deletion?  iTunes by default keeps multiple backups.  Your file may still be there, hiding in the backup history.

--Rich P.