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  • Jan Jan 25, 2012 @ 2:10 pm | delete
    i accidentally emptied the trash with a word file on which i worked for 1 hour. immediately after it i searched for a recovery program. I tried both programs described here. stellar mac scanned my 500 GB SSD for about 3 hours and did not find it. data rescue 3 scanned 40 minutes and found several versions of it. if i had found it with the 10 free previews (it had 30 .doc files) i could have recovered one version for free. stealer mac had no preview i just saw some code or such. i hoped that my files is among the found files, as it found many quite old files. i bought data rescue 3 and luckily there they were. so data rescue 3 worked for me perfectly.
  • Dave Jan 25, 2012 @ 1:00 am | delete
    My entire iphoto library went missing, I assume I accidentally deleted it even though it wasn't in the trash. When I installed iphoto again it was empty. Would this program discover all my photo's individually or in an iphoto album/file. Not sure if this makes sense but thought I would ask anyway. Thanks
  • May Nov 30, 2011 @ 8:14 am | delete
    you just save my life!!!!!!! THANK YOU!
  • Jasin Jun 20, 2011 @ 11:13 am | delete
    hey guys,

    Well i seem to have deleted "hidden" files which are used by the OS X. Now i cant even go on the internet, neither open any application. De Macbook is slow and once i try to open the internet (or any application) it plays me the "an error has been .." then it shuts down the application.

    I have been told to re-install the OS X software again en it will install only the missing files. But i dont wanna take the risk to lose all my data.

    Any advice will be appreciated!

    cheers,
    Jasin
  • Harlen May 13, 2011 @ 1:50 pm | delete
    May 13, 2011. Your not going to believe this, but Stellar Phoenix just recovered 3, 300 Mb avi files of my grandson from my NIKON D5000 SD card that was erased! I tried MacKeeper first but it wouldn't even recognize the card and kept getting giving me an error message. I was truly hesitant to want to buy this product so I downloaded it to see if would recognize the SD disk. Not only was it fast but brought up frames from each AVI file. You FOLKS have my respect and Gratitude! Thanks again
  • tml May 10, 2011 @ 3:44 pm | delete
    This product WORKED. It's not a scam, I was a little hesitant but since I was in a major bind, I decided to just wing it and go with it = voila, it found an Excel file that I had accidentally deleted a month prior, a quite large file with a lot of data. This saved my life. THANK YOU!
  • Golriz Mar 15, 2011 @ 7:00 am | delete
    Hello, I just used the Stellar Phoniex software and apparently it was able to find my files on my hard drive, but at this stage when I try to recover them it says that I should choose another volume for saving them. What other volumes does a macbook have? I mean other than macintash HD which is my hard drive? It's been several days from the day that stellar found my photos, and I am afraid to turn off my computer because it may lead to lose my photos again since I was not able to recover them on my computer. Does anyone know what I should do? Thanks
  • marisaB Mar 17, 2011 @ 5:21 am | delete
    Hi Golriz, have you tried emailing them directly? I would try here: support (at) stellarinfo.com
  • Canadaram Apr 21, 2011 @ 5:23 pm | delete
    Another volume means another hard drive you connect by USB or Firewire, or a USB memory stick, or another partition on your internal drive. You have to have some space to write the recovered files to - and it can't be on the same volume you are recovering.
  • emran Apr 28, 2012 @ 3:35 am | delete
    save them on USB or some other external HD
  • Victoria Nov 17, 2010 @ 4:45 am | delete
    i had a seriously important chinese essay i had to hand up and i accidentally deleted it about a week and a half ago. i only just realized that i deleted it when i just wanted to print it out. i use my computer every day but i really need this essay , do you think i can still retrieve it back?!
  • marisaB Dec 4, 2010 @ 6:33 pm | delete
    After you finish the scanning process, you should be able to see whether your file is listed as recoverable. I guess it all depends on how much information was written on your Mac after you accidentally deleted your essay. Good luck!
  • Cyn Oct 17, 2010 @ 9:01 am | delete
    I have overwrite a folder with pictures in it with a same name blank folder,would this help?
  • rAfS Sep 1, 2010 @ 1:16 pm | delete
    i work at a computer store and one of our customers deleted, by accident, all his pictures.. we couldnt locate them in the whole hard drive and we wnded up buying this software taking the risks that it could be a scam... IT WORKED LIKE A CHARM. I cant wait to show our customer how we recovered his one thousand pictures from all his vacations and other!!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!
  • Daniel, NYC Jul 25, 2010 @ 10:53 pm | delete
    A dvd burning software thought that 17 gigs of video footage (over 8 hrs) were temporary files and deleted them, bypassing the trash completely. I need some serious help to get my .mov and after effects files back.
  • Diane Jun 13, 2010 @ 12:34 pm | delete
    i too deleted my photos i had dropped the files onto a dvd to save and deleted the file on my mac that they were in before i burned the dvd...all files recovered. So happy
  • swisscake Mar 21, 2012 @ 1:09 am | delete
    I lost some files from my desktop on my mac book air recently. I downloaded the above two apps but remo recover mac was the only one which got the deleted files even which was emptied from the trash and that too with all file name in perfect working condition.
  • Boris Jun 4, 2010 @ 9:47 am | delete
    I recovered the 100%, about 20% was difficult to find but not impossible, was with some other name.

    The order of the file list is not in a perfect order, that makes even harder to find what you need.
  • lauraryan1982 May 15, 2010 @ 6:48 am | delete
    I bought the StellarPhoenix software. I had accidentally deleted all my photos and didn't realise for two days. It took quite a while to get through everything, but thankfully I recovered almost of all of my deleted Photos. It is definitely worth the $119!
  • Tim Dec 14, 2009 @ 9:48 pm | delete
    You should feel great saving peoples as like this. Have a good day!
  • Monica Oct 10, 2009 @ 3:15 pm | delete
    thank you so much! life saver
  • amber Oct 7, 2009 @ 11:54 am | delete
    I am trying to recover documents in my trash which I emptied. Am I correct in understanding that my files/ docs are only recoverable IF I used the "rm command" to delete them? I always drag the trash to my garbage icon then use the menu bar to empty the trash. Does that mean this will not work for me?
  • cameron Nov 5, 2010 @ 10:03 am | delete
    did you ever find the solution to your problem I did the same thing.
  • Mark Oct 5, 2009 @ 5:53 am | delete
    Unbelievable! I thought I was toast. This thing really works and I am so fu*king happy. I highly recommend this software and well worth the money. Great job
  • apple Sep 11, 2009 @ 2:29 am | delete
    thank you so much for your help%uFF01i deleted files without knowing and was ready to cry%uFF0Cthank god that the files weren't completely deleted%u3002%u3002%u3002thank you thank you thank you!
  • question.. Sep 10, 2009 @ 11:57 pm | delete
    I'm trying to recover a word file and it was not recently emptied form my trash. I used SP to recover my word documents, but the documents it found are not named what I originally named them- just a whole bunch of numbers. Is there anyway to know what these documents are before I buy the registration key? Thanks.
  • nicecompaq Sep 10, 2009 @ 1:27 pm | delete
    awesome!!! awesome!!! thank you writer i could recover my girl friend picture which was deleted by accident!!
  • JAck Jul 23, 2009 @ 1:52 am | delete
    IT worked sooo well!!! It has saved my life. i had deleted my 40 pg essay by accident... and i thought that i would have to redo it... thanks SOO MUCH
  • Alan Jun 30, 2009 @ 12:26 pm | in reply to Sophie | delete
    If you are worried if Data Rescue II can work for you, we have a demo that you can try before hand that we recommend to all of our customers. The demo will allow you to scan the drive and recover one file that is 5Mb or less for demo purposes. Then at that point it will list out what it found and if it is satisfactory, you can then purchase it on our website www.prosofteng.com for the serial code to activate the software, so you don't have to scan again.
  • Sophie Jun 27, 2009 @ 8:15 am | delete
    I'm scared how reliable this is I emptied my usb by putting everything in the trash thinking it was on my desktop but they where older files opps, then I emptied my trash and realised a few days later oops I needed that.

    BTW Gina your file might not work because it has only been saved to a usb and not to the desktop ect which word automatically deletes and you can not recover it.
    That happened to me once, so annoying...
  • Alan Prosoft Jun 4, 2009 @ 1:18 pm | delete
    If your trash was securely erased, then no. What a secure erase does after deleting the files is to write over the missing space with binary code (0s and 1s) to make sure that nothing is recoverable. When you do a regular empty trash, your file is still there on the drive, but not visible. With secure erases, those files will be non-recoverable.
  • Oliver May 16, 2009 @ 12:20 am | delete
    Will this work if the files have been surcurely deleted with a program such as 'Trash It!'??
  • Catherine May 2, 2009 @ 11:36 pm | delete
    The Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery software worked like a charm! I needed to recover files on my macintosh that I had accidentally deleted (emptied trash and everything) and it pulled up files from what seems like years ago. The only thing is that although the download to search for files is free, to recover the files it makes you register the product, which means pay for it, and it was expensive ($129.00 from the product site). If you really need to retrieve something you lost or deleted, though, it is worth it. It works and does what it promised!
  • Alan Apr 9, 2009 @ 10:34 am | delete
    Gina-So was the file deleted? Or, did you simply turn the computer on and off and now the file no longer opens?
  • Alan Apr 9, 2009 @ 10:32 am | delete
    Gina - This word document, are you saying you deleted it, or simply you turned the computer on then off and the word document no longer opens? Please contact me at alau@prosofteng.com
  • gina Feb 18, 2009 @ 9:57 am | delete
    hi i was doing a word document and i turned of my comp and when i turned it back on i had the recovered file of the document i was doing but it wont let me open it ? any idea i tried opening it on many program but i wontrecognize it?
    thnx
  • Alan Feb 4, 2009 @ 12:12 pm | delete
    -Cinnamon-
    If you have deleted a file and have used the computer since then, there is a chance that you could overwrite your file. Also when a file is deleted, it won't have it's reference name. This means that if it was called backup.dmg, it will come back with a generic name such as file00001.dmg. For additional assistance on the product please call our support line at 1-925-426-6306 M-F 7am-5pm pst or you can send them an email at support@prosofteng.com
  • Steve Jan 4, 2009 @ 10:01 pm | delete
    It worked amazing!!! Thank you so much!!!
  • Cinnamon Jan 1, 2009 @ 7:49 am | delete
    I recently deleted an encrypted dmg. file and have used my computer ever since regularly. i tried to recover the files with help of data rescue II and did a thorough scan but I can't seem to find the file I deleted. instead it shows me the deleted cache and the files that are already on me computer. Is there any way I can specify my search. All the files have been renamed. Help.

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