This is forked from
https://github.com/vitalif/ntfs-3g

which is forked from this origin
git://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g

well ... i deleted everything on my windows drive and i wanted to restore the user directory. There was this tool ntfsundelete that restores single files or a bunch of them by nodeid. But ntfsundelete restores files in a single directory and i want it in the original directory structure and without name collisions of equal names. Also i wanted to be able to specify the parent directory to recover all of its content recursively.

to build only ntfsprogs follow these steps

./configure 
make ntfsprogs

to list all recoverable files with a complete path use the -A argument

./ntfsundelete </dev/unmounted_ntfs_drive>  -A

search for the directory and remember inode number of the directory

./ntfsundelete </dev/unmounted_ntfs_drive> -A -r <directory_node_id>

this prints all found files and directories in the selected directory_node_id recursifly.

when you are happy with the directory to undelete use following arguments.

./ntfsundelete </dev/unmounted_ntfs_drive> -A -u -r <directory_node_id> -d </destination/base/path/>

-A specifies that each node lists all parent directories up too root
-r directory_node_id specifies the nodeid of the directory of which all content ntfsundelet is trying to recover.
-u is the the undelete mode of ntfsundelete use at your own risk
-d specifies the destination path where ntfsundelete creates the undeleted files