What's new in File Scavenger 5.3 Revision 4
Mar 14, 2018
- Supports nested spanned volume, RAID and virtual drives (VMDK/VHD/VHDX) in many combinations.
- Supports Btrfs.
- Groups trivial volumes under one subtree. Trivial volumes contain no or little user data. They may clutter up the results.
- Shows deleted data in a separate subtree.
- Supports VMFS long scan.
- Saves the recovered data from multiple volumes in one operation.
- Fixes bugs in Version 5.2.
New in File Scavenger 5.2 Revision 1 (Apr 14, 2016)
- Improved support for hard drives with 4K sector size.
New in File Scavenger 5.1 Revision 1 (Nov 16, 2015)
- The 64-bit version removes the limit on the number of files the program can scan, provided that sufficient physical memory is available. The 32-bit version can scan no more than about ten million files.
- Handling disk number changes when loading a session file. Windows assigns a disk number to a physical drive, such as "Disk 1", "Disk 2", etc. Older versions of File Scavenger cannot load a session file if the disk numbers have changed.
- New option to create a log for a long scan. The log can be used in a subsequent rescan to significantly reduce scan time.
- Improved recovery of PDF documents in raw mode. In previous versions raw PDF documents are sequentially numbered and saved in a flat folder. In version 5 they are arranged by author and date with the document title as the filename.
- Improved ZFS and RAIDZ recovery. ZFS is a new file system used primarily by FreeNAS devices.
- Improved recovery of the 64-bit ext4 file system.
New in File Scavenger 4.3 Rev 1 Beta (Sep 19, 2014)
- Support for the ZFS file system and RAID-Z (single and double parity). ZFS is an open-source file system and logical volume manager used in NAS devices (e.g. FreeNAS) and high-performance servers.
- Support for the ReFS file systems. ReFS or Resilient File System is Microsoft's next generation file system for the Windows platforms.
- Support for RAID 6.
- Implementing custom RAID. Custom RAID is used when special algorithms is needed to reconstruct data.
- Raw recovery for Cannon RAW Image (.CR2) and Material Exchange Format (.MXF) files.
- Improved raw recovery for Office documents.
- Streamlining the Advanced Volumes dialogs.
New in File Scavenger 4.2 Rev 2 Beta (Jul 11, 2013)
- Improved support for the Ext3/4 file systems, both 32- and 64-bit.
- Improved support for the XFS file system.
- Support for the exFAT file system.
- Support for the VMware VMFS file system.
- Support for the VMware VMDK (flat, hosted sparse, and ESXi host sparse).
- Support for the Microsoft VHD and VHDX (fixed, dynamic and differencing types).
- In raw recovery mode where the original filenames are lost, most JPEG and TIFF files are arranged by the date the pictures were taken (instead of being stored in one large folder).
- Using 5 to 10% less virtual memory than version 4.1.
New in File Scavenger 4.1 Rev 1 (Jan 22, 2013)
- A new dockable status panel with more details about the current session status. During recovery log messages displayed in this panel are also saved on a disk file
- Windows 8 compatibility certification
- Improved support for hard drives with 4K sector size
New in File Scavenger 4.1 Rev 1 Beta (Jan 4, 2013)
- Significantly improved recovery of the following file systems: Ext3/4 (both 32- and 64-bit), UFS1 and UFS2, HFS+ and XFS.
- New view filters to show only files meeting certain conditions. For example you can show only filenames containing a certain string, files larger than a certain size, files created after a certain date, etc. When the filters change the display is updated accordingly without havving to rescan the drive.
- The significantly improved Quick Scan mode can now quickly locate volumes for scanning. When it works Quick Scan yields uncluttered results. The Long Scan can find more files but in many cases those include irrelevant files that need cleaning up later.
- Availability of the Chinese version.
- In raw scan mode (where files are found without a name of folder path) display certain TIFF and JPEG photos by the date they were taken.
- Support for UTF8 filenames in various file systems.
New in File Scavenger 4.0 Rev 5 (Jul 4, 2012)
- Significantly improved recovery of corrupted FAT and FAT32 volumes. The FAT and FAT32 file systems are commonly used on flash memory cards.
- Improved recovery of the folder structure of NTFS volumes.
- Reduced virtual memory requirement which allows File Scavenger to scan volumes with several millions of files.
- Support for the latest generation of hard drives with 4KB sector size (3 TB and up).
- Support for very long filenames (over 260 characters).
- Simplified licensing.
- Reconstruction of NAS devices.
- Reconstruction of spanned volumes over RAID volumes and RAID 50.
- Limited support for Ext2, Ext3, HFS, HFS+, HFSX and UFS1. These functions will be incrementally improved with each revision within version 4 with no additional upgrade fees.
New in File Scavenger 3.2 Rev 19 (Dec 28, 2009)
- This version can find lost data in more scenarios, run much faster, scan very large disks (containing several million files) and support FAT and FAT32 volumes.
- The interface has been greatly streamlined.
- There are new commands to save and reload a session to avoid having to rescan a disk.