Unless the .vmdk files are corrupted, my script will only extract metadata, i.e. the descriptor, and pointer data, but no user data. That's why I provided a source code script.
Anyway, you can certainly try to recover data by yourself. What basically needs to be done, is to create dummy base virtual disks in the original/expected location (you can find the parent path, and file name within the first 1,536 Bytes in the REDO files), format these new virtual disks in the same way as they were originally formatted, then fix the snapshot chain (i.e. set the parentCID in the REDO files to the CID found in the newly created parent virtual disks - using a Hex-Editor). If everything has been done correctly you should be able to mount the snapshots to either your host (VMware Mount Utility - included in VMware Workstation Pro), or to a helper VM, and use a recovery utility to scan the virtual disk for files.
In any case you should - unless already done - keep backups of the files, so that you can revert to them in case it's needed.
André
