Stellar Data Recovery

Recently I experienced a data loss of 650GB of data directly attributed to a lack of transparency of the limitations of SoftRAID software in their FAQ section on their website. This included around 30 years of important data, photos in Photo Library and information contained in DevonThink databases. So, I have been attempting recovery using this product and other data recovery apps. As it turns out, all that I have tried including Stellar Premium are not able to search for file types that are call bundles which Photo and DevonThink files are. What a bundle is a data container that contains the individual files in their saved format. What this means for recovery is that this recovery tool, like all I have tested, can only recover the files in these data containers or bundles but NOT the bundle with the files in them. For the user this means recreating the bundles from the raw data that was recovered, often with only a generic filename when recovered. For significant amounts of data or photos this can literally take many months. In the case of Stellar, having read some reviews of some success in this endeavor I attempted to do a search using this tool. Like its competitors it could not display any found bundles for recovery. What made this even more frustrating is that when contacting Tech Support and even doing screen sharing, they refused to acknowledge this limitation when directly asked, only suggesting I redo the search with the hope they might show up. Since a deep search on an 8TB drive can literally take days, they were perfectly willing to waste my time rather than admit the limitations of their product. So, my advice be for wasting your time looking for recovery of unsupported file types is first checking the list on their website for support file types. If you desired file type is not listed and there are no tools capable of adding the desired file extension, as in the case with Stellar Data Recovery, consider it may not be with your time and energy to do the demo scan to find your desired files. Also realizing if you do you may be only able to recover the actual files with generic files names that made up you Photos Library or database in the case of bundles that you may have to make a time commitment of many months to organize the recovered files back to their original format in their bundles. In the case of files with uncommon extensions, you may simply not be able to recover them at all unless they happen to show up or you can add their extension to the search tool in the program.

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Love This Add-On, my external drive has bad sectors, Stellar Data Recovery software makes the disk image and I safely retrieve the 40GB data in original condition. It is a life-saving & Easy to use product. P.S. Using on macOS Catalina without a glitch.

Though EaseUS is free, I will recommend trying Stellar for better data recovery because unlike EaseUS, Stellar was able to complete the scan on my corrupt 64GB flash storage drive and recovered around 90% of my files.

I upgraded to High Sierra sometime back, but had to downgrade to Sierra. Eventually, I ended up with loosing the data after downgrading Mac. I came across Stellar Mac Data Recovery software and it recovered the lost files. It did with ease.

The recent version of Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery is impressive. I purchased this software to recover data from my hard drive (which I formatted by mistake). The demo version showed all my files which I wanted badly. It took time while scanning the drive but satisfied with the results as the software completed the task of recovering files.​​

Its very useful and I like it.

Stellar Phoenix recovered latest backup from my troubled 1TB Toshiba Time Machine hard drive. Perhaps this is the only software that recovers files from the Time Machine drive systematically. Are there others tool that can recover Time Machine?

Not only did this software not work but the support team at Stellar wanted to argue with me about it and refused to refund me. Do not download this software. Data Rescue 4 worked for me

A comparison site recommended a different product, which I bought. It crashed twice, after 4 hours each time. Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery ran perfectly, recovering 149GB of missing data.

Of the data recovery programs I tried, Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery was the only one that actually showed the original file name in the preview window. That's important.

Your Data Recovery program worked like a charm on my Mac. It was worth every dollar!!!

Of the data recovery programs I tried, Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery was the only one that actually showed the original file name in the preview window. That's important.

I have been long waiting for some software that can retrieve files from my couple of damned flash drives. These drives didn’t mount on my Mac. Though I downloaded Stellar Phoenix software I preferred to image my drives rather than launching straight forward scan. One by one both of them were Imaged, I got to say, time taken for imaging each drive was more than what I expected. Nonetheless, the scan begin to process and files got arranged in some hierarchy. This happened with my both flash drives and I successfully extracted files from it. Upon examining recovered files I found most of them in stable conditions, though few jpg and Adobe CS files couldn’t be launched. Overall, I am pretty happy with how things worked for me.

I tried Stellar Phoenix and Disk Drill to recover files on my Mac Mini hard drive. During the run, I found Stellar Phoenix as more robust and quick. It scanned 500 GB drive and recovered deleted video files. All of them are running good in QT player. Though, Stellar Phoenix is slightly ($10) costly than the Disk Drill home version. I am happy it worked for me.

It helped me in recovering the lost Mac files and third party applications which was hard for me to recollect from my corrupted hard drive and saved me from a big trouble.

Trying to resize Mac partition but unfortunately formatted my Mac HDD and lost my data. Got my data back upto 2 TB easily with this software.

Yesterday week, I was trying to create a new partition, but formatted my Mac drive volume accidentally and was seeking the solution for getting my important data back but all in vain. After lot more had work, I came to know about Stellar Phoenix Mac data Recovery software. Earlier I was worried about using this software first time but all done very well with in few clicks. I got my memorable pics and important files back again. Thanks

Absolutely awful. I'd originally run ProSoft's Data Rescue 3 to rescue a volume on which a few hundred thousand photos and videos had inexplicably simply disappeared; after (perhaps unrealistically) being disappointed at how disorganized the recovery was, I bought SP Mac Data Recovery under the misapprehension that it did a better job recovering original file names. That much was my mistake. The utility ran for literally a couple of MONTHS, 24/7, to recover data. And when it was done, the JPEG recovery was somewhat worse than DR 3 and with no better file name info, but the video recovery... not a single video was playable. NOT ONE. I re-ran Data Rescue 3, limiting it to video recovery; it ran for a much, much shorter period and it seems that at least 90% of the videos are in excellent shape, with another 5% or more at least mostly playable. I contacted Stellar Phoenix, but they were no help at all; it was like calling Three Stooges Tech Support Co.

This software does not work as represented. The filter and search tabs do not work. When you demand a refund the company refuses. Save your time and money and use the Seagate recovery software that actually does work.