Hmm, no ability to sort, search, or filter to more quickly select what you want recovered? Most data recovery utilities have practical features such as those, even freeware data recovery tools.

GRTsoft sells 6 "separate" products for data recovery:
GRT Recover Deleted Folder $69.95
GRT Recover FAT $49.95
GRT NTFS Recover $49.95
GRT Recover My File $49.95
GRT FAT32 Undelete $29.95
GRT NTFS Undelete $29.95
...it's generally standard for each of those "individual products" to be included and considered basic features in most "single" data recovery products, even freeware. GRTsoft considers it fair business to charge $280 for a basic set of data recovery features, most if not all of which can be found in freeware?

Is it just a coincidence that all of GRTsoft's "products" are all the same size of 1.3 Mb?

Smells a little fishy to me.

Gee.K  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+211)

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Win7 64bit: Everytime it crashes :(
I removed it. Thank you anyway Gaotd.

See you tomorrow.

Devilshaker  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+104)

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Downloaded and installed: I wanted to see if it could recover files from my recycle bin after trashing it with Ccleaner's "Gutmann (35 passes) option.
The program only seems to offer one setting: Recover from C: drive but I have no idea if it works or not because every time I run it it just crashes and I have to shut it down with my task manager.
This would be a lot more helpful if it:
a) allowed me choose a location to recover files from (i.e. my recycle bin)
b)didn't crash every time I use it

So this is definitely not a keeper for me - Piriforms free "Recuva" software is probably a better option.

Keya23  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+99)

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win 7 64 bit starts then freezes when you start scan , thx anyway

bry68  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+84)

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I don't know whether this developer is trying to specialise in plucking out random features of existing freeware and touting each on an individual, paid-for basis, but it certainly looks like it.

There's no case for the existence of a commercial product as immature as this or as redundant: Recuva, established for years and from one of the best software developers anywhere, is free of charge and backed by an international community support.

Why, then, would any computer user, anywhere, want to go with today's developer -- one I'd never heard of until encountering its earlier, and similarly utterly unimpressive 'Photo Stamp Remover' -- when the people responsible for the darn-near indispensable CCleaner are also the same people behind the darn-near indispensable Recuva??

I can't even get today's GAOTD to work on my machine. Or, if it is working, it's certainly not finding anything.

(That said though, I do wish some posters would please, please stop to think before levelling unfounded criticisms at software offered by GAOTD: the earlier post about Recover My File's 'failure' to retrieve something that was actually wiped (re-written) not once but 35 times has to be amongst the daftest to appear on here.

Truth is: a file recovery app will only work if a file is in a condition such that it can be recovered. Simple as that. No recovery app will work magic and retrieve the irretrievable. (And that doesn't just mean, files which have been erased due to multi-wipe passes as per CCleaner or, say, Eraser; it also means files that have gone thanks to something as simple as a routine hard drive defrag.)

Thanks then, GAOTD, but no thanks. And by way of what is intended to be a constructive suggestion to today's developer: how about packing in this bonkers idea of passing off as commercialware one or another single feature from complete sets in existing and well-proven freeware?

What with Photo Stamp Remover and now this latest effort, you really don't seem to have much idea of what the global software market actually is -- or how astute so many millions of computer users actually are, both here on GAOTD and elsewhere. Still, this season of the year is an appropriate time for a good laugh so I guess sincere thanks are due for trying to charge $49.95 for Recover My File: quite probably, the funniest tech joke of 2011.

* Information about Piriform's highly regarded freeware file recovery app here

MikeR  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+81)

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