What's new in Data Rescue 5.0.11
Nov 7, 2019
- Support macOS 10.15 (limited): allow Temporary Storage on root; Recovery Drive supported only for HFS+ drives
- Detect Apple iWork ‘13 file types (key/numbers/pages)
- Support Sony DSC-RX/ILCA/ILCE/SLT cameras file formats
- Fix Show Desktop Notifications (popups) on macOS 10.13+
- Fix crash at “Search”, “View File Hex”, “View By Extensions” during changing the selected media or scan on slow drives
- Fix “out of range” crash in HFS+ File/Folder Name parsers
- Fix crash in FAT Long File Name parser at damaged records
New in Data Rescue 5.0.10 (Jun 28, 2019)
- Compact layout for small screens in Professional mode (resizable/collapsible widgets, combined tabs/label)
- Multiple tabs with search results in Professional mode
- Improve Create Recovery Drive on external drives (macOS)
- Improve Serial Number detection for USB devices (macOS)
- Improve Logic Pro X search patterns and size detection
- Fix “Scan was canceled because of a write error” issue
- Fix “No device” crash in select clone destination file
- Fix “View Hex” window crash at open/close race condition
- Fix “Can’t create new bits cache” crash at corrupt scans
New in Data Rescue 5.0.9 (May 2, 2019)
- Run Mount Manager process in background (macOS): “Block attached media from mounting” in Preferences, open/close popups when main application is busy, add “don’t block mount for internal devices” rule, restart process if it was stopped by the system
- Improve privileged server/client reliability (macOS): fix freeze during recovery, restart after abnormal exit
- Support Preview on older macOS versions (pre-10.12 fix)
- Don’t show dock icons for Preview processes (macOS)
- Support Logic Pro X files; fix FileIQ pattern generator
- Fix crash at start clone after media attached/detached
New in Data Rescue 5.0.8 (Mar 26, 2019)
- Support exFAT file system (Quick/Deep Scan, File Recovery)
- Block attached drives (“Mount / Mount Read-Only / Close”)
- to prevent data from being overwritten by Spotlight (macOS)
- Support for recovering files to network volumes (macOS)
- Implement Cancel in “Create Recovery Drive” module (macOS)
- Show /Applications on Recovery Drive after quit (macOS)
- Accept activated Professional serial after full reinstall
- Update compilers/libraries to fix several reported issues
- Fix crash at recovery start when drives attached/detached
- Fix crash at application quit after interrupted activation
New in Data Rescue 5.0.7 (Nov 16, 2018)
- Support macOS 10.14 Mojave (Scan, Recovery Drive)
- Improve automatic serial provisioning support
- Preview: resize large images to fit the screen
- Preview: support more RAW image file formats
- Fix remaining drives checks; skip matching drive images
- Fix crash/freeze in HFS hard links recursive analyzer
- Fix “General Error” while recovering corrupt filenames
- Fix “License agreement could not be downloaded” error
- Fix “Insufficient access permission” error (Windows)
New in Data Rescue 5.0.6 Build 5182.14.05 (Aug 3, 2018)
- Automatic serial provisioning support (lite mode)
- Improve detection of drive failures (read errors/slow reads)
- Enhance “Drive Failure Warning” interface; settings for
- automatic pause and sending notifications after drive failures
- Improve Preview interface (multiple instances; “Save As” button)
- Extend Create Recovery Drive code (wait for mount; check timeouts)
- Detect and show APFS Containers in the drive list (macOS)
- Improve performance of the scanning procedure
New in Data Rescue 5.0.5 Build 5180.89.05 (Apr 10, 2018)
- Preview opens file using the programs installed on computer
- (support all file types on Mac/Windows/Linux, simultaneous preview)
- Recovery Drive based on full macOS system
- (fix multiple crashes, functionality and user interface issues)
- Fix Secure Erase freeze and “Resource is busy” error
- Fix crash at scanning drive with invalid block size
- Fix buffer overflow during scanning DMG files
- Fix crash at workspace change during writing logs
New in Data Rescue 5.0.4 Build 5180.26.02 (Jan 30, 2018)
- Normalize filenames during recovery (avoid General Error)
- Improve Create Recovery Drive support for older systems
- Add scan pattern to look for PDF files
- Don’t terminate program at exceptions during the scan
- Clone warnings (“This operation will overwrite data”)
- License warnings (“Professional license will be required”)
- Fix crash after data cache request beyond media limits
- Fix Preview window crash at some of raw image files
- Fix Drive Parameters window crash with invalid block size
- Fix Form NTFS Boot Sector crash with invalid cluster size
New in Data Rescue 5.0.3 Build 5173.46.11 (Dec 13, 2017)
- Improve error dialog when failing to change temporary storage location
- Improve Create Recovery Drive support for macOS High Sierra
- Fix "Invalid info about selected files/directories after program restart"
- Fix "NTFS incorrectly displays some files/directories as hidden"
- Fix "Scan does not complete"
- Fix Slow Read detection
- Fix several crashes, leaks and UI issues
New in Data Rescue 5.0.2 Build 5172.96.22 (Oct 25, 2017)
- Improve Create Recovery Drive error handling
- Improve NTFS detection
- Fix directory structure of multiple FAT partitions
- Fix ABL window crash with large number of results
- Fix PCIe devices on macOS in Professional mode showing as unknown
New in Data Rescue 5.0.1 Buid 5172.89.18 (Oct 19, 2017)
New in Data Rescue 4.3.1 Buid 5162.80.19 (Oct 12, 2016)
- Increase maximum file size
- Bug fixes
New in Data Rescue 4.3 Buid 5162.70.17 (Sep 28, 2016)
- Added support for macOS 10.12
- Added built-in chat for quick and easy live support
- Improved reliability of searching by date
- macOS 10.8 is now the minimum required version
New in Data Rescue 4.2.3 Buid 5161.73.22 (Jun 27, 2016)
New in Data Rescue 4.2.2 Buid 5161 (Jun 10, 2016)
- Improved reliability of Create BootWell Drive
- Improved compatibility with 10.11
New in Data Rescue 4.2 Buid 5152 (Sep 7, 2015)
- New pricing model that offers a low entry-level option.
- DR Free: recovers up to 2GB of data.
- DR Lite: recovers up to 250GB of data row.
- DR Standard: recovers up to 5 drives unlimited in size.
- DR Pro: recovers unlimited drives & unlimited data.
- All new licensing options are eligible to be increased to recover a larger amount of data with our new PaperByte upgrade options.
- Continued overall improvement in speed and performance.
New in Data Rescue 4.1 Buid 5142 (Oct 23, 2014)
- By default Data Rescue now only works with one scan at a time
- A BootWell button has been added to the Welcome screen
- The Welcome screen buttons have been simplified and renamed
- For safe recovering of the main drive, you must now use a BootWell drive
- Note: expert mode can be enabled to revert most new functionality
New in Data Rescue 4.0.1 Buid 4416 (Sep 24, 2014)
- Fixed BootWell bugs with 10.7
New in Data Rescue 3.2.4 Buid 4156 (Jul 30, 2014)
- Fixed Deleted Files Scan for very large partitions
- Fixed bug with recovering from multiple scans
- Fixed crash while resuming a scan
New in Data Rescue 3.2.3 Buid 4029 (Mar 22, 2014)
- Animated user interface is now disabled to improve OS X system stability
- Removed Analyze feature
- Changed default settings so recovered files do not retain original ownership and permissions
- "Parse HFS+ attributes" is now off by default
New in Data Rescue 3.2.2 Buid 3317 (Jul 27, 2012)
- Added Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion compatibility
- Added a newly designed application icon
- Added support for recovering MIDI audio files
- Added date to JPEG file names for those that contain EXIF metadata.
- Added an "Open With" contextual menu for scan results.
New in Data Rescue 3.2 Buid 2338 (Jul 11, 2011)
- Added support for recovering:
- Microsoft Office 2011 documents
- OpenOffice documents
- iWork '05-'08 documents
- Photoshop large documents
- AutoCAD 2010/2011 documents
- Ogg Vorbis audio files
- Apple and Windows icon images
- Java Archives
- AVCHD videos
- AppleScripts
- X3F and MRW raw images
- Encrypted sparse disk images
- QuickBooks 2006-2011 company files
- EML messages
- MPEG-2 videos
- JPEG 2000 images
- PICT images
- Digital Speech Standard audio
- Improved support for recovering:
- Photoshop documents
- DNG raw photos
- ORF raw photos
- QuickTime/MPEG-4 audio and video files
- JPEG images
- TIFF images
- Added option for Find to only search the selected folder
- Added warning for possible drive failure
- Added basic detection of ExFAT file systems in DR's drives and volumes list
- Added new HTML help
- Improved search performance
- Improved handling of Preview while in demo mode
- Improved compatibility with VoiceOver
- Improved naming of attached disk images
- Improved FileIQ user interface responsiveness when processing large files
- Improved performance when browsing scan results
- Improved stability when running from a headless computer
- Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X
- Improved progress status information during Deleted Files Scan
- Fixed Data Rescue sometimes unnecessarily canceling a system restart, shutdown or logout
- Fixed "nulls" showing in the recovery step when performing multiple drag-and-drop recoveries in a row
- Fixed folders with extensions sometimes showing the wrong icon in Scan Results
- Fixed an error when trying to authorize a copy of the application
- Fixed a -4 error when deleting scans stored in the DVD's Temporary Storage
- Fixed the Contents column in Detail View not properly updating if a drive was erased with a different partition type
- Fixed rare crash when canceling an Analyze
- Fixed rare crash when a search finishes
- Fixed completion audio improperly playing when a Clone or Analyze fail
- Fixed potential hang when browsing for files in FileIQ
- Fixed bug which prevented some MBR FAT32 partitions to not show up properly, which in turn caused any operation on the partition to fail immediately
- Fixed Esc key not properly continuing the scan (closing the dialog) in the Cancel dialog
- Fixed rare crash in Clone when DR was unable to determine the length of the source device
New in Data Rescue 3.0.1 (Oct 27, 2009)
New in Data Rescue 3.0 (Oct 13, 2009)
- Sports a brand new Graphical User Interface, with animated visual effects.
- Many (over 100) new Reconstructed file types have been added for Deleted and Deep scans. See the last section of this file for a current list of supported types.
- A powerful new feature called FileIQ allows Data Rescue 3 to learn about new file types from user supplied samples. This greatly extends the number of potential Reconstructed file types supported.
- A new File Previewer feature, which can preview many file types prior to recovery.
- The ability to suspend and resume scans, and to manage the results from multiple scans.
- Improved support for scanning Apple software RAID drives.
- Improved support for scanning large > 1TB drives.
- Improved support for recovering large sparse disk image files.
- Improved support for recovering pkzip files.
- Improved recovery of hard linked files.
- Added ability to unmount or eject a volume (useful when booted from DVD-ROM).
- Automatic check for updated Data Rescue 3 version.
- Improved features to assist if a call to Prosoft technical support becomes necessary.
- New Home Folder feature when booted from DVD; avoids the need to re-enter activation key each. time it's booted.
- Numerous bug fixes.
New in Data Rescue 1.2.2 (Apr 22, 2009)
- This version is distributed on a new Leopard-based (10.5.6) boot DVD. This allows booting on newer hardware.
- A number of bugs were fixed to prevent crashses and hangs, and improve recovery results.
New in Data Rescue 1.2.1 (Jun 5, 2008)
- This version is distributed on a new Leopard-based (10.5.3) boot DVD. This allows booting on newer hardware.
- A bug was fixed which prevented several file modules which were based on inary property lists from being disabled.
- A built-in file module was added for recovering gzip files.
- Two bugs were fixed which in rare cases caused crashes during scanning.
- A bug was fixed which could rarely cause a Data Rescue user preferences file to become inaccessible due to permissions.
- A bug was fixed which prevented the user from re-choosing the same working directory on second and subsequent scans.
- Safety checks were enhanced to prevent the user from inadvertently choosing to write to the scan drive or inside the current working directory.