I cannot understand why anybody would purchase this kind of product at this price when many other data recovery software offers the facility to recover all types of files in order to give you an all round option.

It seems to be getting all too common for vendors to split functions in order for them to be seeming to create a wide range of software, where they would be far better off combining similar functionality in more flexible, all encompassing solutions.

Recuva, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, Test Disk and PC Inspector File Recovery are examples of free data recovery options, as well as this kind of functionality also being built into more rounded options such as UBCD4WIN and Hirens.

PhilS  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+72)

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Why this version when Wondershare already sells Data Recovery that can recover any type of file?

Ash  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+67)

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Wondershare generally makes better apps, but in testing with a 4 GB SDHC card, their Photo Recovery couldn't match the free Recuva... I started with a card that had screwed up the other day, loosing a dozen or so photos & showing up as unformatted in win7 64 -- I had done a quick format & left it in the USB card reader [figuring I'd test the suspect card later]. This morning I tried to get those photos back using Recuva, EASEUS Photo Recovery, & today's GOTD, Wondershare Photo Recovery -- none of them could find a single file. So I stuck the card back in the camera, took 4 shots, cut/pasted the jpg images to my PC's hard drive, then did it all over again, taking 5 shots this time. All 3 recovery apps found the last 5 files -- the 1st 4 were apparently gone forever -- but when I actually recovered them Wondershare Photo Recovery botched one image. To make sure that the SDHC card hadn't bit the dust, I went back to Recuva which managed to grab them all, & with a quick scan the Wondershare app doesn't offer in ~1/5 the time. [In all fairness not having a quick scan may not be a huge problem -- stopping a scan in Wondershare Photo Recovery once it found the files I was after did seem to work OK.]

When you use Wondershare Photo Recovery you're given a screen with just 2 options, Resume Recovery & Start. Click Start & the next screen lets you choose the drive/device to scan, & once you select one the Filter button becomes active -- click it to choose what files types you want to show up in scan results, &/or if you want to limit the search to a region of the drive, set in sectors. The next window shows progress as it scans the drive, showing files found as it finds them -- you can pause or stop the scan when you want, & optionally save the scan results so you can pick up from that point later on. Unlike Recuva the found files folder tree lists the file type rather than original file names -- clicking one of the found files showed a preview for jpg, but not mpg video in later testing. Once you select the files you want to recover, clicking the Recover button lets you choose where you want them.

Installation isn't bad, & Wondershare Photo Recovery is portable *Depending on how you define that term*... it will write to the registry, so *Strictly Speaking* Photo Recovery is not a fully portable app, but it doesn't need any registry entries to run, so if writing new registry entries isn't a problem for you, it's portable out of the box. The PhotoRecovery program folder holds 36 files, 3 folders, ~19 MB, though you might pare that down a bit if needed, deleting for example internet shortcuts & possibly some or all of the Microsoft files that are included more as a precaution -- per testing with Process Explorer most Windows installs I think will use the versions of those files already installed into the Windows folder. I recorded ~35 new registry entries, mostly uninstall related.

As others have already noted, there's no shortage of recovery apps, so Wondershare Photo Recovery isn't a *Must Have* by any means. That said, while based on this morning's tests I'd personally start out with Recuva, if you can store this Wondershare app someplace out of your way it's not going to hurt anything either.

mike  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+44)

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Installation was clean (actual version 3.0.1.8), but I can't see any reason to install or use this. It's as bad as Paragon about not seeing one of my RAID volumes and one of my external drives. No information is available via right-click. When you click on a drive and scroll through the list with the arrow keys, the first drive you clicked on will have its descriptive text cleared when you move off it.

Scanned a 621 GB volume, slow scan indicated deep scan. Found a bunch of non-existent stuff, no estimate of recoverability, audio and video as well as pictures. A small number of pictures were valid.

Ran Recuva, naturally sees all drives/volumes. Scanning the same volume with a deep scan (always recommended), I didn't time it but I'm sure it was much faster than Wondershare. When showing all types of files, most were listed as unrecoverable but also listed many as recoverable which I'm sure weren't. However, when filtering by pictures, most of them were marked as unrecoverable but all of those listed as recoverable were, and previews were available (much more convenient than Wondershare, Recuva primarily uses a right-click UI). Recuva found every recoverable picture that Wondershare did and several others.

Fubar  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+42)

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This software could be much improved by including a portable version. Or at least the ability to create a bootable CD in case you need to recover from the root directory.

There are free ware versions of photo recovery software available for example

Digital Photo Recovery Software (from Geek Snerds)

Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery (from cnet)

Recuva (from piriform or filehippo)

Zar (from z-a-recovery.com)

Card Recovery (from card recovery.com)

PC Inspector (from snapfiles or cnet)

Picajet Photo Recovery (cnet)



I've had massive problems trying to add ideas to the Feedback panel above, is anyone else having problems leaving feedback? Every time I input the code it refuses it, but I'm definitely putting in the correct code.

Hard Water  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+41)

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