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R-Undelete Changelog

What's new in R-Undelete 6.7 Build 180009

Nov 24, 2022
  • New features:
  • Support for the ReFS 3.4 and 3.7 file systems (Windows Server 2019-2022) has been added. NTFS de-duplication included.
  • New file types have been added to all file systems.
  • R-Undelete now enumerates FAT folders with partially damages sectors.
  • Improvements:
  • Detection of partition's sector size has been improved.
  • Processing of sparse files has been improved.
  • Detection of NTFS file systems with overwritten parts has been improved.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The program incorrectly determined the best FAT table for FAT12/16 file systems when the sector-wise processing was used. Fixed.
  • Waste copies of GPT partitions could be found if a GPT HDD was formatted into an LDM/MBR disk. Fixed.
  • Waste copies of partition records could be found when GPT partition entries were partially overwritten. Fixed. Now they are checked against validity, and such records are ignored.
  • The FAT32 bitlocker to go couldn't be recognized. Fixed.
  • When an NTFS file system was partially scanned, its reconstructed MFT included only the scanned part of that MFT. Fixed. The non-scanned parts of the original MFT are now included, too, using its FS file.
  • If a special partition was mounted with a non-standard tool, like Mount ESP, to a disk letter through a link to the object like DeviceHarddisk0Partition1, its corresponding volume was doubled, and two volumes were created. Fixed.
  • Only a GPT partition, regardless of its validity, was parsed if the disk contained both LDM/MBR and LDM/GPT partition tables. Fixed.
  • NTFS file systems were parsed incorrectly if their cluster size was 64k. Fixed.
  • NTFS partitions weren't found in the device didn't have the boot record. Fixed.
  • Root folders with small numbers of files (1-2) on FAT16/32 file systems were detected incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Deleted partitions were not searched for if a direct volume was found on a flash drive. Fixed.
  • Partitions were shown two times if the partition GPTs had the same offset/size but different GPT Guids. Fixed.
  • SMART for intel NVME devices may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.

New in R-Undelete 6.6 Build 175721 (Jun 29, 2022)

  • New features
  • A completely overhauled file previewer which can now show picture tiles and first frames of video files as icons, and supports a large number of video/audio/graphic/document file formats. These files can now be played back without their respective applications installed.
  • Estimation of chances for successful file recovery.
  • Recovery of names and paths for files deleted to Recycle Bin and Trash.
  • Support for ReFS 3.4 file system.
  • Improvements:
  • Folder tree reconstruction has been improved for supported file systems.
  • Memory usage has been optimized and debugged.
  • The parsing and reconstruction of the FAT32 and NTFS file systems has been improved.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • The program may sometimes have crashed when opening heavily corrupted file systems. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete may have temporally frozen when opening an NTFS partition with many compressed files. Fixed.
  • The program may have opened some partitions with large numbers of files for a long time. Fixed.
  • Existing files may have been shown as deleted in cross-linked folders on FAT32 partitions. Fixed.
  • Sometimes the program may have crashed or frozen during file enumeration and disk scan. Fixed.
  • Some small interface and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.

New in R-Undelete 6.5 Build 170927 (Jun 27, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • NTFS file system parsing has been improved.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • Byte-to-bite images (.disk) could not be opened. Fixed.
  • Non-resident symlink parsing on NTFS devices may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Minor parsing bugs for the NTFS file system have been fixed.
  • Minor bugs in the video file preview have been fixed.

New in R-Undelete 6.5 Build 170757 (Apr 19, 2018)

  • Bug-fixes:
  • Many cosmetic bug-fixes.
  • If a file mask was applied to graphic files in the graphic file view, some dummy files may have appeared when the program returned to the tile view. Fixed.

New in R-Undelete 6.3 Build 170123 (Feb 2, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • Tile view has been improved.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • Wiped pictures could be viewed in Viewer and sent to Shredder again. Fixed.
  • Initially, Custom view appeared as a blank tab until clicking the Settings button.
  • Shred files button may have shown incorrect number of files for a short time.
  • Wiped tile view has been corrected.

New in R-Undelete 5.0 Build 164588 (Jun 9, 2016)

  • New features:
  • A new data analyzing and recovery kernel that improves data recovery speed and results.
  • Faster Open Drive Files operation.
  • A new advanced algorithm for recovering exFAT partitions.
  • Improvements:
  • HDD S.M.A.R.T. status is now shown using HDD icons.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. information monitoring.
  • Hard links, symbolic links, and their targets have now different icons.
  • Optimized memory usage for large disk scanning.
  • Timestamps (Created/Modified/Accessed) can be specified separately on the Find/Mark and Mask dialog boxes.
  • The raw file recovery algorithm (search for Known File Types) is greatly improved. The entire file signature database was checked and corrected.
  • Hexadecimal viewer:
  • The status bar now shows the cursor offset in the decimal format, too.
  • Search for Not equal string is added.
  • Bugfixes:
  • R-Undelete might crash during scan. Fixed.
  • Names of several S.M.A.R.T. attributes were corrected.
  • Sometimes R-Undelete could not find exFAT partitions during disk scan. Fixed.
  • Many cosmetic and localization bugfixes are fixed.

New in R-Undelete 4.9 Build 159562 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved support for NTFS $LogFile
  • Improved file recovery from FAT32 disks

New in R-Undelete 4.9 Build 159222 (Jul 29, 2015)

  • New features:
  • A new advanced algorithm for raw file recovery (search for file signatures).
  • Support for Directory Junctions and Symbolic Links
  • Improvements:
  • Now R-Undelete shows extra files found by their file signature both in the Raw Files folder and in recognized partitions.
  • The file recovery algorithm has been optimized.
  • Bugfixes:
  • When recovering Directory Junctions, R-Undelete might save files to the Directory Junctions symbolic paths rather than to the recovery path. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete asked to save scaninfo before initial scanning an opened image or loading scan info. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete attached recognized partitions from an opened dsk disk image to those on the original hard drive. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete cut text strings in the progress window. Fixed.
  • When very many files were recovered, the progress window might be visible for sometimes even when file recovery was completed. Fixed.
  • Windows 10 might be incorrectly recognized as Windows 8.1. Fixed.

New in R-Undelete 4.9 Build 156454 (Apr 14, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Accelerated disk scan for fast-read devices.
  • Search for deleted file versions. R-Undelete can search for deleted file versions using their sizes, names and extensions, and recognized file types as the search parameters.
  • Improvements:
  • More reliable and significantly faster recognition of NTFS and FAT partitions.
  • Files found using both search for known file types and file record analysis are now shown only in the file/folder structure.
  • Improved data selection in the Hexadecimal editor. Now the beginning and end of the area to be selected can be set by the Select from and Select to commands in the shortcut menu.
  • The Hexadecimal reader shows now a search position together with the progress bar.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Sometimes scan might freeze. Fixed.
  • It was impossible to enter hex values in the offset field in the Hexadecimal viewer. Fixed.
  • Sometimes data search didn't work in the Hexadecimal viewer, and it was impossible to stop it. Fixed.
  • Some settings were GUI language-dependent. When the language was changed, they got lost, when the language was changed back, they appeared again. Fixed.
  • The title of the Size column got lost when the column size was changed on the first panel. Fixed.
  • The Command Show S.M.A.R.T. from on shortcut menu was active for an HDD image. Fixed.
  • Search for Extra Found Files was disabled by default during simultaneous image creation and disk scan. Fixed.

New in R-Undelete 4.8 Build 155159 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • New features:
  • S.M.A.R.T. attribute monitoring. R-Undelete can display S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) attributes for hard drives to show their hardware health and predict their possible failures. Any unnecessary work with such hard drives should be avoided if S.M.A.R.T. warnings appear.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The Create scan information file option on the Create Image dialog box was enabled by default. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete might show deleted files/folders which MFT records were occupied with new ones on wrong places. Fixed.
  • A default Crash Report filename contained an illegal character :. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete didn’t take into account folder’s hard links during file search. (It didn’t show files in hard links.). Fixed.
  • Incorrect behavior of the Failed hardlink recovery dialog box. Fixed.
  • The Create scan information option was selected by default on the Create Image dialog box. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete failed to create an image when a new folder was selected. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete might freeze when attempting to open a file of a multi-file image with some other files moved to another place. Fixed.
  • There was no warning about re-writing the scan info file when a new pair of a disk image and scan info files were to be written over the existing one. Fixed.
  • It was impossible to change scan parameters for simultaneous disk scanning and imaging. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete might freeze when analyzing file systems with cyclic cross-links. Fixed.
  • R- Undelete didn’t warn its user that is was going to overwrite an existing scan info or image file. Fixed.
  • The Hexadecimal viewer might freeze after an I/O error. Fixed.
  • Some cosmetic bugfixes.

New in R-Undelete 4.7 Build 154025 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • The shortcut menu in Windows explorer didn't work. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete might crash when re-enumerating files on large partitions. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete might add an incorrect file extensions to the file name when the image type was switched to "Byte to byte image". Fixed.
  • R-Undelete always showed empty folders regardless of whether Show empty folders was enabled/disabled on the File Mask dialog box. Fixed.
  • Read-only folders might be shown when selecting places to save files. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete showed folders even when Look at: Folders was disabled. Fixed.

New in R-Undelete 4.6 Build 153643 (Aug 16, 2013)

  • New features:
  • Support for ReFS (Resilient File System), a new local file system Microsoft introduced in its Windows 2012 Server.
  • Support for Windows 2012 Server OS.
  • Bugfixes:
  • File Previewer didn’t show non-Latin characters in file names. Fixed.

New in R-Undelete 4.5 Build 152119 (Mar 23, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • The built-in hexadecimal editor is renamed to the hexadecimal viewer, so are the corresponding commands.
  • New features:
  • R-Undelete Home: a free for home user version that recovers files from storage media with the FAT file system without any trial limitations. An ideal solution for photo and video recovery, and recovery of other files stored on SD cards, USB memory sticks, and alike. It also recovers files from NTFS disks with trial limitations. Turns into full-functioning R-Undelete upon registration.
  • A new file previewer that supports additional file formats: Adobe Acrobat pdf, Microsoft Office documents doc, xls, ppt (Office 97-2003), docx, xlsx, pptx.
  • Simultaneous image creation and scan. Now the R-Undelete can create an image and simultaneously scan the data being copied. In this case the program creates two files stored at the same place: an image file and file with the scan info.
  • New, faster, and more robust algorithms for scan for Known File Types and processing the FAT file system. These algorithms are adapted to multi-core architectures and include critical situation processing to prevent the program from freezing and crash.
  • Improvements:
  • Scan of large disks is improved. Now the program can process 2^64 elements rather than 2^32 as in previous versions. This prevents R-Undelete from locking while analyzing disks with huge numbers of files.
  • The GUI language can be changed on-the-fly.
  • Better file system parsing to eliminate duplicate file records.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Sometimes scan info wasn’t saved together with the image file. Fixed.
  • The same image (rdr) could be opened multiple times. Fixed.
  • The option Recover real folder structure was active when files were sorted by their real structure. Fixed.
  • The command Create Image was active for opened images. Fixed.
  • When the shortcut menu command Refresh was executed on the first panel, recognized partitions might appear, and they even could be scanned. Fixed.
  • The shortcut menu command Close All Previews was active when all preview instances were closed using the closed button. Fixed.
  • R-Undelete might not ask the user to save scan info. Fixed.
  • When the disk has been changed, the Find Results still contained found files for the previous disk. Fixed.
  • When the disk scan was interrupted using the Stop Detailed Scan command and Stop and return to the Select Disk panel is selected, the Next button was active at the first panel even when no disks were selected. Fixed.
  • Several cosmetic bugs are fixed.
  • On the Find/Mark and File Mask dialog boxes, it was possible to enter inconsistent data interval into the between field. Fixed,
  • Long paths for recovered files were incorrectly displayed in the Wait dialog box. Fixed.
  • Corrections in the French localization.
  • Search might not work is some parameters are entered into the Find/Mark dialog box. Fixed.
  • An image file might not be saved on a FAT32 disk if Image split size Fixed on the Create Image dialog box is selected as 4Gb FAT32. Fixed.
  • The progress bar showed the progress only for the current file recovery. Fixed.
  • Already scanned objects could be shown incorrectly if scan had been interrupted or the disk hadn’t been completely scanned. Fixed.
  • The program could sometimes crash while searching for files. Fixed.
  • The program could freeze if an empty mask was specified in File view. Fixed.
  • Some bugfixes in data representation in Scan info display.
  • The pre-viewer could start at the background. Fixed.

New in R-Undelete 4.1 build 132962 (Jan 21, 2011)

  • Support for exFAT
  • Greatly enhanced scanning for FAT and NTFS partitions

New in R-Undelete 4.0 Build 127535 (Feb 4, 2009)

  • An improved wizard-style interface oriented on data recovery novices
  • option to recover files from damaged and deleted partitions

New in R-Undelete 4.0 Build 127493 (Oct 24, 2008)

  • Added an improved wizard-style interface oriented on data recovery novices
  • Added an option to recover files from damaged and deleted partitions that bring R-Undelete to a highly rated R-Studio level except for some special data recovery features like RAID , Hex editing and Network support
  • Found files and folders can now be easily sorted by the original structure, file extension or file creation/modification time.