Copying PW site - odd encoding

[Peter Knight]

It's one of those mornings!

I'm trying to restore a PW site after a VPS crash over the weekend and step 01 is to copy all the root PW files and site over to a test server.

Actually, it's a restored version of the crashed VPS.

When I copy over the files and load up the domain, I am getting a very weird collection of characters.

Viewed on the VPS I get Chinese characters

while on the localhost I get the following

I'm not expecting the site to work right now as I've yet to import the database but I did'nt think I'd see the above and have never seen this before.

It's not a hacked site by any chance?

[DaveP]

Are you sure the files aren't compressed (.tar or .gz or the like)?

If they are PW core files, check if file sizes compare to those on git.

[pwired]

Actually, it's a restored version of the crashed VPS.

Like DaveP said, check the file format you are dealing with, .tar, .gz, .zip, .rar, etc.

It that's not it then it looks like corrupted data due to interrupted writing. One of the things that is left to do

is to use a tool that scans the partition or file area sector by sector and piece together what is still there.

Depending on the work that you did on those files this could save you time.

R-studio is very good. I recovered many times pieces of word and excel documents with it,

saving hours of time.

[Peter Knight]

Thanks guys

The files were placed on the server as a ZIP and then unpacked. I'll look at R-Studio as they're not ZIP files any longer.