Anyone know the best (BEST!) data recovery software?

So, got half million photos back with Stellar data recovery pro.

Wouldnt recommend it. There was no way to break up the photos into folders of 10,000 to make it workable.

Also no Folders, dates, times etc like they promised.

I’ll tackle that bulging folder at some point.

Sone good news is that I found

three folders while digging around in my 2x 2tb back ups and found quite a lot of missing photos.

Lesson here is get a job and own new Macs. My beloved 06’ is dying a slow death.

Oh and check trash before emptying,

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and ideas.

Okay thanks.

My actual library is around 300gb but the computer has been giving me so much trouble over the past year and it’s nearly doubled the volume!

Am I correct in thinking that data recovery cant just pick out the volume ‘iPhoto Library’ that was deleted on the 22/07/19?

Am I going to get 24,000 photos in random order with all the movies thrown in?

Stellars scan has said there is 867gb that can be recovered!

Is the one you mentioned better?

Have you ever been a fool like myself and needed to use one?

Thanks.

Hi,

No, I have access to it but not the deleted part.

The Stellar recovery is still going on. 13 hours and counting....

I’ll see what it says when done. Then check the program suggested in the first reply.

The computer works fine (except for kernal panics) but with thousands of messages in console for all over. Sometimes 500 a second (iTunes) which is then stopped.

Stellar recovery program froze so had to force quit.

I would love to buy another but I’m not working at the moment so I’m stuck.

I will try Target Disc mode tonight and get back to you all.

Thanks for the help so far.

Cheers for that. I’ll give it a go tomorrow.

Running off usb just now while EaseUS Data recovery scans.

Dont know how good they are as it’s froze twice already but that could be because it’s only a 16gb drive.

I made that bootable usb years ago and I don’t recall how I did it.

Anyone know how to make a bootable usb copy of either 10.6.8 or 10.7.5?

Looked online but it’s all install usb’s which are no use to me.

Off to bed.

Thanks all.

Hi all,

Okay so things looking a bit more positive. Using Stellar Pro to scan drive just now after talking to a woman there.

I didn’t need much convincing after I tried a couple of trials of other recovery scans. Yes you get photos and videos back but with no info!! No dates, no folders, no organisation at all. Thousands of photos and videos all in a pile. There was 24,000 photos in 583 folders so no thank you.

Stellar say they can look for big volumes, recently deleted and go for the lot with all the related information. So hopefully this is true. It gets really good reviews.

Managed finally to make a 128gb bootable ssd usb drive so it’s not slow anymore.

I’ll post when I know more.

Cheers.

The computer still works but it’s hardly been used since this happened.

So I should not use it at all except with my bootable usb?

Thanks.

Hi,

Can’t use that software as I’m running 10.7.5 and it needs 10.10.

Cheers though.