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PhotoRescue 3.2.9.13221
Recover accidentally deleted or damaged images from memory cards. Demo ($29)
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PhotoRescue is a tool that can attempt to recover lost or erased files from digital media. Many file formats are supported, but the focus is on digital photography file formats like JPEG, TIFF, NEF, Compressed NEF and CRW file. It works with SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Sticks, SD, MMC, XD Cards and Microdrives but also generally most other external storage devices.
What's New
Version 3.2.9.13221: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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| Downloads:27,130 |
| Version Downloads:720 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:23 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.00 |
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PhotoRescue is a tool that can attempt to recover lost or erased files from digital media. Many file formats are supported, but the focus is on digital photography file formats like JPEG, TIFF, NEF, Compressed NEF and CRW file. It works with SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Sticks, SD, MMC, XD Cards and Microdrives but also generally most other external storage devices.
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2composers reviewed on 30 May 2011
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Maybe because accidentally I've opened the card through the Finder, now the demo version cannot recover the pictures anymore! I've lost a lot of time and my hope to recover my pictures just because this crappy buying method. The next time I will search for the pirated version!
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So I canceled my order. The support from the developer was faster. My experience with RegSoft is always bad.
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...Wait a minute this sounds a lot like Photorec but is a touch more expensive - $99 for the "expert version". Check out Photorec before you buy, it might save you money.
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It worked great to recover deleted photos on an xD card from an Olympus camera.
As noted by the previous reply, the command line has a simple curses based gui that is easy to use. And there are good step-by-step instructions on the wiki.
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misha reviewed on 26 Nov 2008
My only complaint is that the upgrade from version 2 to version 3 is $19. I already paid $29 for the app... upgrades to tools like this should always be
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m4rtin reviewed on 09 Nov 2008
Exif Untrasher could not find the images. FAIL.
CardRaider took several hours of preparation then crashed. FAIL.
FileSalvage couldn't find anything. FAIL.
PhotoRescue allows you to see if it can locate the missing files in demo mode before paying for the app. Once the items are located you sign up and when the registration code arrives you can then save the recovered files.
US$30 is a fair price for something that works so well and does what the other apps mentioned above could not.
I don't normally write reviews for apps but as finding this one was such a task I figured this might help others in the same situation.
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Colette reviewed on 05 Nov 2008
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MiniMarc reviewed on 03 Nov 2008
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Tomdoherty reviewed on 17 Aug 2008
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http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/v3/try.htm
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mok reviewed on 09 Dec 2007
However, I felt that much could be improved. Scanning a 30GB and 120GB disks took over 12 hours of 100% CPU computations. In neither case did the analysis actually end by itself: I had to click "Cancel", after which, the program retrieved whatever files it had found. If I left the program scan my drive much longer, it sometimes would stop responding and would have to be force quit. There is no real progress indicator, just a fake indicator that goes from 0% to 100% a million times. Since you only see the last 4-5 pictures it saw, and those are usually bogus pics that came from a random app on the hard drive, there's no way to know how many pictures have been found, what they look like, and what percentage of the disk has been scanned. The programs also retrieved some very large movie .avi files, and all .pdf and .wav that it found. I suspect a lot of time was spent reconstituting these large movies and I wish there was the option to skip them and focus on the pictures. I'm disappointed by the fact that I suspect that I could have found more pictures (though it did find 12,000 pictures in perfect condition, many of which were the ones I was looking for)...
So all in all, the interface is spartan, there are not enough options, and progress feedback is woefully lacking. On a hard drive, the scanning is also extremely SLOOOW. But on the other hand, it did find a huge number of perfect/uncorrupted pictures (and PDF/AVI/WAVs) in erased and overwritten hard drives, and for that alone, this program was a life saver (but an imperfect one).