I bought a brand new license after I lost some data, even though I already owned a license for a previous version. The support team *noticed* and sent me an email letting me know that they'd be *refunding me half the price* since I already owned a previous license. I didn't ask for a discount, I didn't expect a discount—these guys are incredible!
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I managed to recover the data from two dead drives, both Toshibas, but neither of the drives has the important data that I’ve lost. I used an app called ‘Disk Drill’ (@Cleverfiles) which I kind of feel obligated to promote given how many other apps failed.
I have one more laptop drive to try. I don’t think it will work. I also have one 5.25 that I”m pretty sure I’ll have to send out for recovery.
One thing that I find frustrating on Mac’s: it’s almost impossible to force the OS to recognize a drive. So I open Disk Drill, open mac’s native disk utility, and then use terminal to try to force the matter. It seems to work. 😉
Downloaded this in a panic after losing a very important budget spreadsheet (somehow reverted to a much earlier version). No idea how it worked but it instantly found the up to date version and has saved the day! Thank you disk drill
I’ve a few issues after upgrading my Mac to 14.1. After an update version that I’ve using was no longer supported, but Davie in 1h handled & solved everything what is need to run Disk Drill on the newest MacOs.
I am on an extended trip in Asia and lost a whole day’s SD card as I tried a “recommended!” download by cable instead of my normal card reader.
I thought I had lost all the files but Disk Drill found them all and with Pro I could recover and download them. I didn’t have Disk Drill before the trip but they were incredibly helpful in explaining how it works.
I should have bought and installed it before my trip….a must have App for photographers.
Restored an important file that I accidentally erased. I m so grateful!
Highly recommend!
I recently had an SSD that lost its AFPS partition. I tried 2 different competing products and neither could find/read the APFS partition/file system, even though they "claim" they could. Not only did this product EASILY identify my files that were existing on the lost partition, it also found numerous files recently deleted (of course I was only interested in my "existing" files). I immediately purchased as this is absolutely an invaluable tool in today's modern digital age. I really wish I would have found this first!
it wasn’t mine 😭 some apple system diagnostics file.
Shoutout to @Cleverfiles’ Disk Drill or I’d never have found it.
I have recently purchased v.5.3.1313. The application works well, it did recover my disk, but I have a few requests for improvement:
– Some actions can’t be interrupted. Scanning images for ex. can take a very long time in a 2TB disk and there is no way to interrupt this action. You can’t even close the app while it’s doing the scanning.
– If you plug a new drive when the app is already open, either it doesn’t detect it or it takes ages before you get any indication that it has detected it. This is confusing.
It would be great to have these issues fixed.
From CleverFiles: Thank you so much for your review. You are right, some actions cannot be interrupted by definition. As for the slow detection of the drive, it’s probably damaged. Email us at help@cleverfiles.com or chat live with us below if you are still experiencing that.
I’ve got my teenager photos back from disk I found while moving out to another apartment. The disk was formatted multiple times and used for many years by 4 different people/PCs. Disk Drill managed to get me many old files with few clicks! Pro license was worth it, also has few extra features like backups, health checks, just great.