![]() This version is better: it feels faster, looks slicker and its features are easier to find and use. Last time I reviewed it, I said it looked like a port from a PC app – in other words, it looked (and felt a little like) it had been developed for PC and then ported over and modified into a Mac app. A cogwheel icon next to Recover lets you further configure how deep you wan this operation to go (main picture, above). In operation, install Disk Drill 3, select the drive to recover from, click Recover next to it, wait for the scan to conclude (this can take a long time depending on how big, full or fast that media is) and then tick the files you wish to retrieve from purgatory, and click Recover again. It would be worth the price of Disk Drill 3 for these anyway … oh yeah, but it’s free. These tools, all free as well, include Disk Health, Mac Cleanup, Duplicate Finder, Recovery Drive, Data Protection and Data Backup. It can even scan and recover from Kindle and Android devices you plug into your Mac.Īdditionally, there are various disk management abilities that come with it, which let you find duplicates, monitor the health of all those drives and to instil some level of protection. This will get back photos, videos, texts, contacts and messages. ![]() But boy, does Clever Files have a deal for you … because this free version does recovery as well.ĭisk Drill 3 for Mac (I reviewed the previous version in November 2015) can recover not just from your internal hard drive but from almost anything that plugs into your Mac: backup drives, other storage external drives, USB ‘thumb drives’, many camera cards and even, with this latest version, from iOS devices. Once upon a time, you then had to upgrade to Pro (for US$89) to actually retrieve them, which is better than buying the software to then discover the files aren’t retrievable. It’s a free download from Clever Files and this is clever indeed – with the free version, initiate a scan to see if those files you lost are retrievable. You should always do this before you pass your Mac on to someone else or sell it, for example, so they can’t reconstruct all those spreadsheets showing there you have spirited away those millions … Erase the Hard Drive with Security options, reinstall the OS from scratch and then sell it or otherwise pass it on.Īnyway, software like Disk Drill can rebuild links to files that have not yet been overwritten. In this case, depending on what kind of hard drive your Mac has as its main drive and what software integration you are on, you can either choose Erase and then click Security Options to write the zeroes, and older versions of the utility let you write zeroes over empty space without erasing the entire HD, although my version no longer allows this. You can do this in Disk Utility, for example, the Apple ute that sits in the Utilities folder in Applications. The space they occupy then becomes listed as free space and if you need to save a new file, or install a, large app, import a movie etc and it needs that space, the file will ‘overwrite’ that space, making whatever file existed there before irretrievable.įor this reason, various software (or the ‘Secure Empty Trash option on Mac that still have non SD hard drives) will write zeroes over where files were to make them irretrievable. The usual process is that when you Empty Trash, the links to the files are obliterated, but the files themselves are there, hidden. ![]() Macs typically don’t actually delete the file itself. File purgatory - Disk Drill 3 is the kind of software that can almost literally save your life if you have deleted files, or something went wrong with computer and files have disappeared.
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