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34 out of 36 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: Recover My Files 3.98
"Deceivingly useless trial/Undetermined full-product functionality"
Pros: Judging by the trial account, this product was easy of operate as the interface is mostly user friendly and so far bug free.
Cons: MOST IMPORTANTLY:
The trial account will not allow you to recover any data. It will in fact allow you to search for the data, in my case for over 3 days, until it finishes, where it will refuse to recover the files it found unless you purchase the product on the spot. If you choose to purchase the product later you will have to do the search all over again.
SECONDLY:
This software costs $69. Personally, I can pay some children down the street to take a list of what songs I had and start stabbing my hdd with tiny magnets for $70. Or buy a backup hard drive. Or an operating system that doesn't write over its mft.
NOTE TO THE DEVS:
The user must choose some example file types to lead the recovery search. It preemptively states that selecting 'too many' file types will slow the process down, but that selecting just a few of the most common will speed the process. This portion of the interface was more difficult to work with, as I found myself scrolling down a seemingly endless list of files types trying to battle in my head "Do I have that? Yes... but how many? more than .mp3s? but what about .zips, I haven't even neared the end of this list, so maybe I'll come back to this one... but how many should I select? Will one too many be a big difference?" A thought process that is not necessary, and embarassingly lengthy. For a start, the user should not be allowed to select too many file types to ascertain that the recovery process runs as quickly as possible. But I beg the software developers to smooth this process, even if it means forcing defaults so that I have to sit another x hours of the 3 days that I've waited, just so I don't think to myself the entire time it's running: "I shouldn't have checked pdf...."
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Recover My Files 3.84
Pros: Retrieve your deleted data, i've seen alot of programs that say they can, but there are allways some flaws. But in this product i can't find one!
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19 out of 19 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Recover My Files 3.98
"Useless DAta Recovery - After buy they accuse of pirated copy"
Cons: Not much to like - downloaded trial version - decided to buy - key did not unlock trial version - had to reload from their web page - support is super slow (takes days) and they accused my of using a pirated version, even I had given them purchase info, unwilling to support. Files can't be recovered well, file size limits - can't safe/store search - took over 24 hours to scan disk with useless results - consider yourself warned about this software.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: Recover My Files 3.9.8.5875
Pros: nothing to say
Cons: not impressed
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15 out of 16 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: Recover My Files 3.98
"Unless Your Willing To Pay $70 .....do not waste your time with this product"
Pros: Seems to scan and find deleted files on hard drive okay.
Cons: This software is crippled and you CAN NOT SAVE any file it finds, Unless your willing to pay $70, to "maybe" be able to recover some files if they havent been written over.
Not worth installing and wasting time doing a scan and then finding out when scans done that you just wasted your time.
Theres Free File recovery programs out there that scans just as good and FREE ! So do a little search and find one of those instead of this product.
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