Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Claude Code Data Recovery
People are praising Claude Code for its ability to autonomously recover and clean up large amounts of corrupted data, including wedding footage and cache files, utilizing tools like ffmpeg and photorec.
"Claude Code just SAVED my marriage!" I gave Claude Code 512 GB of HEAVILY corrupted wedding footage from a close friend of mine, and within 10 minutes, recovered it all. Two days ago, I got some bad news from a buddy telling me how the only copy of their wedding videos was
I still use windsurf sometimes. I cancelled the sub and switched to claude code but like the auto complete feature sometimes when glancing the code for review. currently using zed + claude code, most of the time
claude code recovering 512gb of corrupted wedding footage is actually insane - using ffmpeg + photorec to rebuild file systems autonomously is exactly the kind of task where AI shines. way beyond traditional data recovery tools. this is the future