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Disk Drill 5.5 Brings on Lots of Fine Tuning of Interface and Overall App Performance

New Disk Drill sees improvements in iOS data recovery, scanning for new file types, faster scanning speeds in certain cases, and refined handling of NAS devices.

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New

  • Disk Drill 5.5 brings on lots of fine tuning of interface and overall app performance.
  • New file signatures recognized by Disk Drill: .gp – Guitar Pro 8 Tablature and .musx – Finale Music Notation files.
  • iOS scan can now recognize and include geographical location in photo recovery results as well as keychain passwords.

Improvements

  • Minor improvements in iPhone and iPads scanning module for even better user experience.
  • Improved handling of Dropbox files by the Clean Up module.
  • Better presentation of images assigned to the recovered contacts.
  • Better recovery chances prediction for the files recovered from BTRFS file systems.
  • Much improved .potm files detection and therefore their subsequent recovery.
  • Overall scanning speed improvements by approximately 5%.
  • Subtle improvements of the app interface visuals, responsiveness and usability throughout.
  • Purgeable space is now taken into consideration when determining how much free space is available on disk.
  • Better detection of operating systems on scanned NAS devices.
  • Better handling of NAS devices set up with DRBD system.
  • Overall improvements for data recovery from Android devices.
  • Better detection of the following file signatures during scan: .potx, .ppsm, .pptm, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsm, .xlsb.
  • Disk Drill stability on macOS Big Sur.
  • Optimized the display of information about NAS devices and their elements.

Fixes

  • Corrected some issues when attempting recovery from locked notes on iOS devices.
  • Fixed Disk Drill running out of memory on rare occasions while scanning for lost contacts, and other non-file entities.
  • Random occurrences of the detected lost partitions not being displayed in dashboard during scan.
  • Crash during scan when a .zip file was found.
  • Data Protection module was not always displaying all supported partitions.
  • Randomly occurring issue in Clean Up module upon dashboard refresh.
  • Rare crash when items were dragged to caddy in Clean Up module.
  • Eliminated the Dylib Hijack Scanner vulnerability in a third-party analytics library.
  • Sorting status for the Disk list not saved.
  • Excessively long scan of Fusion Drive has been fixed.

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.updated: May 7, 2024 author: CleverFiles Team

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