Going to the masses to ask this question. What's the best (ie: malware and virus free) file recovery software?

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Going to the masses to ask this question. What's the best (ie: malware and virus free) file recovery software?

I could have sworn I copied a folder from my SD card to laptop and then deleted the folder on the SD card, but when I went to add more files to the folder on my laptop the folder was empty. No bueno! And they were some good (okay, decent) pictures! I'd like to have them back.

Gracias.

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Reverend Eric Ha said…
IIRC it's testdisk or photorec. Command line utils but work like a charm.
October 19, 2015 at 5:30 PM
Jason ON said…
Command line?  Eeegads!

Oh, I should have clarified: Windows.
October 19, 2015 at 5:34 PM
Reverend Eric Ha said…
AFAIK it will work with windows..but it's command line driven

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
October 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM
Laura England (LA) said…
Don't you wish we could go back to DOS!!!!
October 19, 2015 at 6:32 PM
David Gross said…
how about dropbox or Google Drive? they both save deleted files to a trash folder.
October 19, 2015 at 6:55 PM
Jason ON said…
Uh, the files are already deleted from the SD card, David Gross.

I actually downloaded and used Recuva (http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download). Sadly it said the files dated 06-21-2015 were not recoverable because they had been overwritten on 04-7-2015. Yeah, you read that right. 

Explain that one to me.
October 19, 2015 at 7:14 PM
Kenneth Thompson said…
July 4th date written in ddmmyyyy format?
October 19, 2015 at 7:53 PM
John Mitchell said…
I've used Recuva, it worked okay.
October 19, 2015 at 8:41 PM
Jason ON said…
Not unless it's the only date written in that format, Kenneth Thompson.
October 19, 2015 at 9:03 PM
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