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I am an Ubuntu user and I have a friend with a busted NTFS drive. I know about safecopy, which can copy a file, or clone a whole partition to an image, skipping errors.

However, I did this, and I can't mount the image because it's too damaged. In any case, there's way more there than I need to recover. I only need one folder with a bunch of photos (and subfolders) in it.

I also know about photorec, but that was scraping tons of unneeded image files off this huge drive and it estimated over 200 hours to complete.

So really, I just need to copy the one directory, quickly skipping errors. If some images can't be copied, I'll cut my losses.

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I found this to be the best solution:

cp -Rfv source target

-R: recurse through subfolders -f: skip over undreadable files -v: verbose output so you can see what was skipped.

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