[vlc] Recovering An Overwritten Stream Recording

[thoran]

Hi,

I just overwrote hours of streaming which I'd recorded because I  
pressed stop and then play again, thinking every so briefly that I  
would then be listening to the current stream, but not writing to the  
file!

I used the Streaming/Exporting Wizard to set this up and realised  
moments too slowly that I might overwrite that file and that I don't  
have to explicitly go back through  the Wizard to initiate capture of  
the audio stream again.  My second thought was the correct one.

So, I would like to know how VLC handles file handles.

Is it likely that the overwriting of the file name creates a new inode  
and leaves the existing recording and inode intact, but without an  
entry in the filesystem?  Does VLC handle inodes directly, or does it  
pass those kinds of responsibilities off to operating/file system  
services?

I'm using a Mac and would like to know how best to go about recovering  
this.

Thanks,


thoran