iSunshare Photo Data Genius

Having to come home from a long vacation only to find that the storage drive on which all your picture are is damaged or files are no longer there is really frustrating. On the bright side of things, there are specialized applications like iSunshare Photo Data Genius which can attempt to recover them in one piece.

Once setup is over, you can launch the application to start the recovery session. It is able to target both fixed and removable storage devices such as USB flash drives or MP4 players, and they can be under file systems like FAT32 or NTFS.

Despite its name, the application can attempt to recover more file types, such as audio, video, and other common file formats. However, it’s recommended to choose the appropriate category of file in order to narrow down search results. If successful, the operation can recover JPG, PNG, BMP, MP3, WMV, WAV, AVI, MP4, MOV, and more.

The initial menu lets you choose the category in which you consider the file is. Multiple selection is possible if you want to recover different items, or you can just opt or all file types. Needless to say that the second step is to choose the drive of interest. It’s recommended to plug in the removable drive before running the program, but there’s a high change it’s automatically detected in the drive selection screen as well.

It can take a little while for the results to arrive. However, this mostly depends on the selected category, size of the target drive, and most importantly its health. A progress bar lets you know how the operation is going.

The process can be cancelled, showing currently detected items. Files are enlisted in a tree view by format, with selection unveiling the actual file. Selection of a file generates a preview if possible. It’s a good idea to restore recovered items to a different drive.

ISunshare Photo Data Genius is a bit more than the name has you believe. It can target both fixed and removable storage devices, either under FAT or NTFS file systems. As such, you now have more chances to recover nearly any kind of files through an intuitive operation.