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Mac only: You know that sinking feeling you get when you accidentally delete your photos or reformat your camera’s memory card without first removing the pictures on it? Reach for Exif Untrasher instead of antacids and rescue those pics from annihilation.
Windows 2000/XP/2003 only: Free file recovery utility Partition Drive and Mount could be a real panic-reducer for anyone realizing too late that they really needed that file or folder from a just-removed partition. The app scans your hard drive and finds every hint of partitions it can, whether one disappeared…
Blogger Kent Brewster used previously mentioned file recovery utility PhotoRec to rescue an unreadable thumb drive. He writes: PhotoRec ignores the file system in favour of finding lost files, so it works on FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3, HFS, and (with certain caveats) ReiserFS. And since it’s looking for known file headers…
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