We've gone through a ton of "simple" file recovery apps at Download Squad, and not all of them perform as advertised. Some take a painfully long time to scan only to report few - if any - recoverable files, dashing our hopes of retrieving that funny lolcat we deleted by accident.
Undelete Plus, however, is a champion at what it does. It quickly completes its scan for potential targets, displays them in a detailed list that includes likelihood to be recovered, size, date created, and path, and even gives you a second pane with totals grouped by file type.
We tried the recovery on formats that typically gives these programs fits - images and video - and Undelete Plus recovered each one without issue. Granted, there are going to be times when it can't - no recovery app is perfect - but we were certainly impressed in our testing.
If you've accidentally wiped something important from your PC, do yourself a favor and download it. We guarantee that it will increase the likelihood that your spouse won't make you sleep on the couch because you trashed their favorite pic or song by 70%.
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7-04-2008 @ 3:05PM
Lee Mathews said...
Banner ads in the program itself, I assume? For how well it worked, I'll take a few stupid ads any day.
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7-04-2008 @ 3:12PM
Mark said...
It created a new folder on my drive named AdRotation and it had jpegs of ad banners in it and a list of urls to download them from.
7-04-2008 @ 3:14PM
Lee Mathews said...
Well, you can always go for the standalone (http://www.undelete-plus.com/files/undelete_plus.exe) as well...I didn't notice any activity other than the program launch!
Thanks for commenting, btw...Don't want people getting AdRotation without a warning!
7-04-2008 @ 3:09PM
Mark said...
First it's adware which I hate, and it's very limited. Doesn't scan for lost clusters or anything, amateurish looking GUI as well. Sure it will do in a pinch for an accidentally deleted file but there are much much better programs for this out there that don't download banner ads onto your system.
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7-05-2008 @ 8:10AM
Lee Mathews said...
Just goes to show you that there's more to undeleting than the app itself. I've tried Recuva, and it didn't do squat on my system, yet Undelete Plus did.
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7-05-2008 @ 2:34PM
whiskey said...
My case? One of our USB drives became "locked" and you could not make use of the rest of it. Plus some files were there but you could not read them. Tried UndeletePlus, and couldn't do anything to it.
That is until I formated theUSB drive and used UndeletePlus to recover the files. I got ALL files back.
What was cool was that it comes with a file previewer (how do you know which DWG file you are looking at guided just by the filename and/or location?).
This maybe is not "phorensicz" grade but it will definitively get the job done.
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7-05-2008 @ 2:55PM
Fred Thompson said...
Yup, it's junk compared to Recuva http://www.recuva.com/
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7-06-2008 @ 5:54PM
Mark said...
I've tried recovering 2 files, both mp3's.
After restoring these files 1 file was something complete different as to what the file should be and the other file was unable to play.
Furthermore the recovering of the Word documents failed aswell... :-/
7-10-2008 @ 5:11PM
Jeebus said...
@Mark,
Are you commenting on UndeletePlus or Recuva?