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PhotoRec
Sign in to savePhotoRec is a free and open-source utility software for data recovery with text-based user interface using data carving techniques, designed to recover lost files from various digital camera memory, hard disk and CD-ROM. It can recover the files with more than 480 file extensions (about 300 file families). It is also possible to add custom file signature to detect less known files.
Key facts
- Software.logo
- PhotoRec Logo.svg
- Software.screenshot
- PhotoRec-Ubuntu (Screenshot 2010).png
- Software.caption
- Demonstration of PhotoRec running in Linux
- Software.developer
- Christophe Grenier
- Software.latest release version
- 7.2
- Software.programming language
- C (nCurses)
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.platform
- CLI
- Software.genre
- Data recovery
- Software.license
- GNU GPL v2+ (free software)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Digital Picture and File Recovery
PhotoRec is a free and open source file carver data recovery software tool.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Functionality
- Compatibility
- Distribution
- See also
- References
- External links
PhotoRec is a free and open-source utility software for data recovery with text-based user interface using data carving techniques, designed to recover lost files from various digital camera memory, hard disk and CD-ROM. It can recover the files with more than 480 file extensions (about 300 file families). It is also possible to add custom file signature to detect less known files.
PhotoRec does not attempt to write to the damaged media the user is about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written to the directory from which PhotoRec is run, any other directory may be chosen. It can be used for data recovery or in a digital forensics context. PhotoRec is shipped with TestDisk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PhotoRec” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.