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- Price: Free to try $19.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 3.x/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: April 09, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,650
- Downloads last week: 11
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2 votes
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Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This application finds files with the CHK file extension and reverts them to their original extension, but it performed poorly in our tests. Most users probably won't have any problem in figuring Flobo CHK Identifier's neat, straightforward interface. Scandisk creates CHK files from orphan file chains it finds. This application attempts to discover the original extension for each CHK file. You can browse by directory of drive to discover CHK files. Discovered files are listed where you have the option of deleting them. However, it often crashed when scanning our test drives. The demo doesn't offer the renaming feature, but limits you to deleting found corrupted files. With the many crashes we encountered and our inability to test CHK Identifier's renaming function, we can't recommend it for any level user.Publisher's description
From Flobo Recovery :One of the problems running scandisk is that if it finds FAT chains or MFT records without any corresponding files, it creates its own set of files, typically in the format File0001.chk file0002.chk etc in the folder named FOUND. When there are only a few files it is possible to guess what they are and rename the extension accordingly, however when there are several hundred or thousands of these files the task becomes a nightmare.
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Version: Flobo CHK identifier 1.5
"only gave it a one, cuz i couldn't give it zero.junk, junk, junk"
Pros: nothing. useless demo.
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Version: Flobo CHK identifier 1.5
"This Demo version is absolutely worthless. And ugly."
Pros: The application installs and runs. I guess that counts as a good thing.
Cons: This demo version doesn't let you do anything at all. It does not recognize and rename your .CHK files - that is, unless you "buy unrestricted version", it claims. It suffers from ugly design (and I mean UGLY!) and bad usability (and I mean BAD!).
Summary: On basis of this demo version, nothing can be said about the usefulness of the full version. The demo is not promising, however. It demonstrates absolutely nothing - except that the creator has awful taste in design and no feeling for usability. On ... read more >>
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