The following set of instructions explain how you can enable data protection in Disk Drill to prevent any accidental data loss in the future.
Disk Drill supports two different methods of data protection, which are Recovery Vault and Guaranteed Recovery. Recovery Vault and Guaranteed Recovery are two different ways to avoid future data loss.
Recovery Vault saves the metadata (filename, file location, etc.) of deleted files, making it much easier to identify and recover these files using Disk Drill. Guaranteed Recovery actually saves a complete copy of files sent to Trash (or any other specified folder) and therefore guarantees that they will be recovered in case of disk failure.
Guaranteed Recovery is only available in Mac Data Recovery for now.
Enabling either or both of these options will significantly improve your chances of recovering data. However, note that since Guaranteed Recovery ensures 100% recovery of data it is much more resource-intensive method than Recovery Vault.
Note that Recovery Vault can only be applied to FAT and HFS/HFS+ partitions with the write/read operations enabled. Neither read-only partitions nor disk images can be protected with this method.
For security reasons, you can also set up a password for preventing unauthorized access to Recovery Vault, the email address for password recovery, and other Disk Drill settings and features by choosing Disk Drill > Preferences > Security tab:
To enable data protection, perform the following:
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