When I do that on the JPG file I’ve selected, you can see it’s an outdoor shot from up in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado: What’s really helpful is that you don’t have to recover blindly because along the top are three tiny buttons, one of which - the “eye” - lets you quick preview the file you’re about to recover: Here I’m looking at photos and it only found JPG files so that’s the only subfolder under Photos. This is about file recovery, not folder system recovery, as is true of all applications in this category. Again, the original file and folder structure is gone because the recovery software can’t trust the disk information blocks. Notice on the left that the contents of the drive are organized by file type. “OK” gets me to where there’s a display of what was found as recoverable: Now the program will scan the media…Īnd finally, after a fair amount of time – my 32GB drive took about 10min for a full scan – the scan’s complete… No worries, it hasn’t scanned anything yet to analyze the contents.Ĭhose the correct drive and continue. Totally full? Nope, but for the recovery software there’s no way for it to know what files are present, so it assumes that it’s wall-to-wall at capacity. On the right you can see the specs on this drive: 31.4GB capacity, 0B available. The USB drive is listed as “NO NAME” (the first clue that something’s wrong as it actually has a name when it’s working properly). That’s not what I want, nor is “Macintosh HD”. If you’re running Lion or Mountain Lion, you should already know that the OS install actually creates a special hidden partition called “Recovery HD” that you can use if your OS gets messed up – just reboot while holding down Cmd-R. Now it shows me the media options it can find: Since my entire USB drive is messed up, I’ll choose “Formatted Media / Lost File Recovery”. Here are the four basic types of data recovery that the program can do: a quick recovery special mode, deleted file recovery, lost file / formatted media recovery and a filter that lets you search the damaged media for a specific file. ![]() The opening screen gives me a few options, and I bet you can guess which I choose: ![]() Let’s see how it works with recovering a pretty big 32G USB drive that isn’t properly mounted on my system.Īt the point I start up the program, I’ve already tried other apps and not gotten very far with recovering any of the data on the USB drive. In fact, one of its capabilities is to help you recover files that you might have already accidentally dropped into the trash and deleted. A photo archive of 10,000 RAW and PNG files? That’s going to be a bit of work if you need to just extract a dozen from six months ago.Īs is common with these type of programs, Stellar Phoenix Mac actually scans the entire drive to identify every file it can find, typically even including those that have been deleted. A USB drive with a dozen PSD files from your latest Photoshop project? No worries. ![]() The bigger the drive, the more of a pain this is. One of the biggest challenges with data recovery is that the program can’t trust the file system information tables so it can’t show you the file and directory structure that you think is on the drive.
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