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Disk Drill Media Recovery Changelog

What's new in Disk Drill Media Recovery 4.5

Nov 4, 2021
  • Full support of macOS Monterey
  • Improvements:
  • Improved Deep Scan and recovery from APFS drives with multiple partitions
  • Enhanced recovery of X3F file format for Sigma sd Quattro cameras
  • Improved CR3 files recovery for Canon EOS R6 (craw with HDR preview), Canon EOS R5 (craw HDR, FW 1.2.0), Canon EOS 1DX Mark III (craw w/ HDR FW 1.0), Canon EOS R5 (craw/craw HDR FW 1.0)
  • Better labeling of found JPG files in Deep Scan
  • Improved detection and recovery of deleted EMF files (Enhanced Windows Metafile, vector graphic)
  • Extended support for BRAVO codecs when recovering Braw (Blackmagic RAW) files
  • Multiple improvements in BMP and DCR (Digital Camera Raw file format) recovery
  • Improved FAT32 recovery when scanning partitions with unsupported ANSI code pages
  • Improved recovery from NTFS drives formatted by Acronis apps
  • Better compatibility while recovering from older iPods, the ones connected as a mass storage device
  • Current Helium Gas Level explained properly in S.M.A.R.T. panel
  • Fixes:
  • Process exception when clicking unrecovered items on recovery log
  • Inaccurate numbers of found files for disks with nulled ending areas
  • Non-functioning buttons in Byte-to-byte Backup module on macOS 10.11-10.14
  • Corrected recovery statuses in Disk Drill’s logs
  • File name generation for RAF photos (RAW file signature)

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 4.4 (Aug 27, 2021)

  • Byte-to-byte backups offer even more flexibility now: specify size in MB or choose specific disk sectors
  • Deep Scan now supports MSI files (Windows Installer Packages)
  • Deep Scan detects PSD and Insta360 One X2 files more effectively
  • Ten-fold increase of FAT32 scan speed for files with longer names
  • The scan log offers an even more detailed and thorough statistics
  • New confirmation dialog has been added upon clicking on the Home button during the Clean Up module scan. This helps avoid accidental scan cancellation
  • We brought back the thumbnail generation status
  • Quick Scan is much faster now for exFAT systems with a large volume of deleted files
  • A significantly improved detection of NTFS partitions and their contents based on the discovered MFT entries
  • Automatic scan stops upon unmounting FAT32 disks
  • Improvements and optimizations of Deep Scan for JPG, PDF, and DOC file types
  • Enhanced support for compressed NTFS volumes
  • MP4 files (video) encoded with H.265 XAVC codec are now supported in Deep Scan
  • Corrected false detection of exFAT formatting on some NTFS partitions
  • Scan and recovery processes run as smoothly as ever together in Disk Drill
  • Random crash fixes

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 4.3 (Jun 18, 2021)

  • Disk Drill now runs natively on M1 Macs
  • New simplified UI
  • New Deep Scan algorithms to recover raw image formats
  • New enhanced NTFS, FAT32 and ExFAT recovery
  • Deep Scan supports new file formats: AU (Audacity audio files), PCX (bitmap images), Microsoft Publisher files (PUB), WordPerfect (WPD), "Ichitaro" the Japanese text processor (JTD, JTDC, JTT, JTTC), and others
  • Deep Scan finds and reconstructs more RAR, CAB, ZIP, and other archives
  • Extended file names recovery for PDF and AI files
  • Improved detection of TIFF, JPG, and X3F image formats
  • Byte-to-byte backups can now be paused and resumed
  • New option to "Select only files that were not recovered yet" in the recovery tree
  • Auto-resuming scans of frequently disconnecting (unstable) devices
  • Greater visibility in scanning and recovery results

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 3.8 (Nov 26, 2019)

  • Overall improvements for macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • New: smart ExFAT recovery algorithms
  • New: file signatures added to Deep Scan - AU (Audacity audio files) and PCX (bitmap images)
  • LaCie devices recovery: critical improvements, disk disconnection prevention
  • FAT32: improved support of lost partition recovery
  • Disk Drill gets better at detecting and scanning external USB storage devices on macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • Improved: original file location detection in Quick Scan
  • Improved: recovery of fragmented files on ExFAT partitions
  • Minor UI and tutorial enhancements
  • Fixed: false detections of HFS+ partitions
  • Fixed: rare cases with file name recovery during HFS+ Quick Scan
  • Fixed: empty disk labels on macOS Catalina

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 3.7 (Mar 16, 2019)

  • Improved APFS data recovery
  • Improved preview of files with extensions in upper case
  • Fixed recovery loops on some FAT32 disk images

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 3.6 (Oct 31, 2018)

  • New:
  • Multiple internal optimizations and improvements for macOS Mojave
  • All FAT32 smart recovery algorithms updated
  • Canon RAW Movie (CRM) file format added to Deep Scan's file signature repository
  • Data recovery from Apple's RAID arrays - Striped (RAID 0), Mirrored (RAID 1) and Concatenated (JBOD)
  • Automatic detection of APFS Fusion Drives
  • Extras:
  • Improved universal recovery sequence on APFS partitions
  • Improved processing of Core Storage
  • Improved data recovery routines on encrypted APFS volumes, emphasis on Deep Scan
  • Improved recovery consistency on FAT32 partitions with 8K cluster size
  • Improved preview on macOS 10.10
  • Improved MP3 recovery and labeling as part of Deep Scan
  • Several minor UI enhancements
  • Multiple improvements in UI translations

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 3.1.772 (Feb 10, 2017)

  • The new nicer and vastly improved UI
  • Better support of macOS 10.12 Sierra
  • Faster byte-to-byte disk backups
  • ExFAT and EXT4 support
  • Improved disk image attaching and detaching
  • New file signatures for Deep Scan: .epb (EP Budgeting files), .rt (Rich Text document), .mlv (Magic Lantern Video Wrapper File for DSLRs), .ipt (AutoDesk Inventor CAD), .aaf (Advanced Authoring Format multimedia file), .tib (Acronis True Image), .enex (Evernote XML notes)
  • Tolerant reading of GPT partitions improves lost partitions recovery
  • Better handling of orphan & lost files in HFS+ Catalog Rebuild
  • HFS+ Extraction added to the family of other HFS+ Healing Algorithms. Now Disk Drill locates lost HFS partitions more reliably
  • Improved resuming of past recovery sessions
  • Mounting of found data as a disk
  • Preview recoverable items more conveniently: as icons with thumbnails for all previewable file formats
  • Review found items as a flat list, without grouping and folders
  • Improved sorting in recovery results screen
  • Better detection of bad sectors
  • Now Disk Drill also speaks Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Malaysian, Taiwanese
  • Improved reconstruction of .sib (Sibelius music composing software)
  • Endless fixes and improvements on Mac OS X 10.11.x
  • Several reported crashes fixed

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 2.6.447 (Sep 7, 2016)

  • Easier initial selection of the drive for recovery
  • Improved disk backup creation process
  • New file signatures recognized by Deep Scan
  • Fixes on OS X 10.9

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 2.5.432 (Oct 22, 2015)

  • Deep Scan learns new signatures: Notes.app database, iCash files, .GP3/.GP4/.GP5/.GPS (Guitar Pro documents)
  • new: ISO disk images support
  • some visual and usability improvements
  • fixed: disk space calculation in found items lists
  • fixed: several random app freezes

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 2.4.423 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • Completely redesigned UI.
  • Universal partition search: this function allows you to recover partitions on HFS+, FAT and NTFS file systems.
  • Scan for lost HFS+ partition: this recovery method finds and recovers HFS+ partitions that have been reformatted.
  • “Allocate existing file system data” is a new scan type that shows existing data on a loaded media using Disk Drill’s unique reading algorithms.
  • Better filtering: The algorithms for filtering out hidden and system files in the scanning results have been improved.
  • Optimized scanning results: The scanning results view now includes more information and the results can be viewed, scrolled and sorted much more quickly.
  • A ton of new file signatures for Deep Scan: TAX (TurboTax files), TS (Video Transport Stream Files), R3D files (Red camera images), and many more.
  • Better recovery of PSD files with deep and quick scanning.
  • Improved recovery of Adobe InDesign (.INDD) and Nikon Raw Image files (.NEF).
  • Recovery of updated Numbers, Pages, Keynote packaged file formats.
  • Better dates for found files: Disk Drill now keeps the original creation date when found items are recovered.
  • Better names for files found with Deep Scan.
  • Better detection of lost partitions: Disk Drill is now better at detecting corrupted lost partitions during scanning.
  • Already recovered files are marked green if you get back to scanning results.
  • Recoverable files can now be previewed with hex view (highlight a file in scan results and use the Alt+Space keyboard shortcut or click the special hex view icon).
  • Lost partitions are now automatically expanded into readable file structures in the scan results.
  • Improved support of the latest Mac OS X updates (including Yosemite).

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 1.8.2 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Deep Scan file signatures updated
  • improved recovery of DNG raw images
  • improved internal algorithms of Guaranteed Recovery protection
  • fixed several minor crashes

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 1.8.1 (Aug 23, 2012)

  • now fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.8 (see instructions to access all your disks)
  • new: Deep Scan updated with the new known file signatures including DXF (Drawing Exchange Format), BPN (ArchiCAD Backup File), PLN (ArchiCAD Project File), PLA (ArchiCAD Project Archive), TPL (ArchiCAD Project Template), WEBLOC (Mac OS X Website Location)
  • improved: recovery of MXF files that contain video (older versions of Disk Drill could produce corrupted 4KB recovered items)
  • improved: recovery of DNG raw images
  • improved: stability of Guaranteed Recovery protection features on heavy loaded protected folders
  • fixed: all reported crashes and exceptions not related to QuickLook and OS X itself

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 1.8 (Jun 12, 2012)

  • new: a bunch of new file signatures was added to Deep Scan's database based on user requests, among them: CPR (Cubase Project), CDA (CD Audio Track), AA (Audible Audio), IDML (Adobe InDesign Markup Language File), EPUB (Open eBook File), ENS (REAKTOR Ensemble), INX (InDesign Interchange File), FOS (Fallout 3/NV Saved Game File), CST (Adobe Director External Cast File), CXT (Adobe Director protected cast file), DIR (Adobe Director Movie), DXR (Protected Macromedia Director Movie), FH3 / FH8 / FH10 / FH11 (FreeHand 3/8/10/11 Drawing File), PTF (Pro Tools Session File), LRCAT (Adobe Lightroom catalog file), CAF (Core Audio File), CHM (Compiled HTML Help File), CWK (ClarisWorks Document), FDX, FDR (Final Draft Documents)
  • new: recovery from ExpressCard/34 Cards external storage
  • new: preliminary support of Unix File System (UFS and UFS2) and Linux File System (EXT2/3) by Quick Scan
  • new: Disk Drill can find accidentally or intentionally deleted EXT2/3 partitions using Deep Scan or Search for Lost Partitions
  • new: support of external RAID Cards and SAS RAI, including those over 4TB
  • improved: Quick Scan is much faster on high-loaded file systems thanks to increased internal cache size
  • improved: better recovery of .TIF files that were converted from .NEF's
  • fixed: some occasional endless Quick Scans
  • fixed: most of the reported crashes and exceptions that were not related to QuickLook and OS X itself
  • fixed: some .MOV files could be recovered as a series of images

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 1.7 (Feb 8, 2012)

  • Disk Drill supports data recovery on external Thunderbolt hard disk drives
  • New file types for deep scan recovery (.xib for Mac OS X Interface Builder, .h and .m Xcode 3 and 4 related files, .ESS for The Elder Scrolls IV and V saved game files, .LXO, .PRPROJ, .VWX, .OLK14MSGSOURCE - Outlook for Mac Email Message Data File)
  • Improved Guaranteed Recovery status display
  • Updated Growl notifications, full support of new Growl's features
  • Updated lost partition searching algorithms
  • Improved large and small ISO files recovery
  • Improved detection of defective hard drives and better notifications if that happens during scanning
  • Better detection of corrupted files after scanning
  • Improved monitoring for empty boot disk space and notifying during scan to prevent Mac OS lock ups
  • Improved localization references and links from the UI to local CleverFiles websites
  • Last recovery resuming stabilized
  • Fixed all reported exceptions, crashes and minor bugs
  • Fixed occasional freezing if disk gets unexpectedly unmounted
  • Fixed rare freezing when viewing disk info
  • Fixed visual issue when users could occasionally hide Guaranteed Recovery configuration options
  • Added rating request

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 1.6 (Dec 16, 2011)

  • better preview navigation of the found items (cursor Up/Down or mouse scrolling to switch files)
  • new file signatures added: PS (PostScript), EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), PSB (Photoshop Large Document Format), CDR (CorelDraw 7-15, up to X5), ANI (Windows Animated Cursor), MID (MIDI), IDF (MIDI Instruments Definition File)
  • smart filtering of the scanning results removes inconsistent items from the list
  • improved recovery of large files (ISO > 1GB, MOV (M4V, MP4) > 4GB, MPG, M2TS, MKV > 4GB)
  • fixed: Deep Scan session saving and loading
  • fixed: freezes when scanned disk is dismounted during scanning
  • fixed: mounted disk status when loading a scanning session
  • fixed: various exceptions and possible crashes

New in Disk Drill Media Recovery 1.5 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • Recovery of Recently Deleted Items: we added Guaranteed Recovery, a totally new data protection method
  • New localizations: Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese
  • New interface icons
  • Several speed issues resolved
  • Stability in many aspects of data recovery
  • Deep Scan is now capable of recovering APK (Android applications), C4D (Cinema 4D), RM (Real Media files, also known as RV, RMVB), RA (Real Audio format), MXF, FLAC (lossless audio), MA, MB, MP (Maya related files), ITL (iTunes library file format), DB3 (SQLite3 database, same as DB file in iPhoto library and many other mac software), CELTX, AEP (Adobe After Effects CS5), ORF (Olympus raw images), FFF (Hasselblad raw images), IPA (iOS applications), MMAP (MindManager maps), RVT (Revit), FP7 (FileMaker document), ENL (EndNote Library file), FLP, MINDNODE, RNS, CAB, TEXTCLIPPING, ARJ, ICO, ICNS, BLEND, XMP, MYO and other files
  • Improved saved session files compatibility