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What's the best file recovery software? - Cary - 04-17-2013
Just got a call from my 83 year old father - he deleted "a bunch of stuff" from his Mac - "cleaning up," he says. He just realized that he somehow deleted all the family pictures off the external hard drive.
Best of all, this was 4 days ago.
Now he wants me to see if I can recover any of it.
Here's my question: What's the best Mac file recovery software these day? Extra points for free or cheap.
Thanks,
Cary
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - GGD - 04-17-2013
You might give PhotoRec a try, it's free, and designed for photo recovery.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - bazookaman - 04-17-2013
I've used Data Rescue many times before and it's never failed to save my bacon. It is neither free nor cheap. However, when it comes to recovering precious data, I think I'd prefer something that is neither free nor cheap.
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - evilrobot - 04-17-2013
I'll second Data Rescue for it's bacon saving properties. Absolutely worth it.
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - weapon - 04-17-2013
data rescue works for me.
As long as he has not overwritten the disc much. He should be able to recover most photos.
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - rz - 04-17-2013
Data Rescue saved my bacon about 9 years ago when I had a hard drive get badly damaged. It was so bad, even Disk Warrior couldn't see the drive. DR managed to not only see it, but recover about 60% of my files. Granted, it took 11 days for it to do the deep scan and recovery, but it worked.
I've used it twice since then, both times on other people's drives. Recovered 100% of files both times. Interestingly, a friend of one of those people had a PC hard drive go bad and we tried the PC version of DR. It didn't recover anything. Coincidence?
Oddly enough, I recently came upon that hard drive from 9 years ago. I had put it in anti-static wrap and stored it away. I decided to see if the new version of Data Rescue, on a much faster machine, would be able to recover anything. It ran for a while, but finally came back and said it couldn't. So I decided to destroy the drive by opening it up. when I looked at the platters, there was a gouge in one of them, obviously where the head crashed onto it.
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - mattkime - 04-17-2013
hope you get that stuff back!
then install backblaze and time machine
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - anonymouse1 - 04-17-2013
TELL HIM TO STOP USING THAT HARD DRIVE! Turn it off!
Then, Data Rescue.
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - Lew Zealand - 04-17-2013
Bacon is something which needs to be safeguarded at all costs and the best bacon-saving program is Data Rescue. After a similar event but which included wiping an entire hard drive, Data Rescue recovered 100% of the wiped files.
Best $89 I have ever spent.
Re: What's the best file recovery software? - Speedy - 04-17-2013
Be sure he exercises patience. Set Energy Saver to never sleep and tell him not to worry about the $2 of electricity he may think he is wasting.
rz wrote: it took 11 days for it to do the deep scan and recovery, but it worked.