Mac Data Recovery Guru vs PhotoRec
Mac Data Recovery Guru
macdaddy.io
PhotoRec
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| Figure | Mac Data Recovery Guru | PhotoRec |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 7.9 (#50) | 8.7 (#11) |
| Spec score · SD card recovery software | 8.1 (#22) | 8.6 (#8) |
| Spec score · SD Card Recovery Software | 7.9 (#23) | 8.2 (#16) |
| Spec score · Photo Recovery Software | 8.0 (#19) | 8.3 (#12) |
| Spec score · Photo recovery software | 8.1 (#20) | 8.6 (#8) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Memory card recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Operating systems | macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later | Windows; Linux; macOS; DOS; FreeBSD; NetBSD; OpenBSD; Solaris; other Unix systems |
| Recovery sources | APFS drives,HFS+ drives,ExFAT media,FAT32 media,camera cards,USB media,disk images,folders | hard disks; CD-ROMs; memory cards; USB memory drives; DD raw images; EnCase E01 images |
| Support | MacDaddy says it aims to respond to support requests within one business day and gives urgent recovery cases priority. | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. |
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Mac Data Recovery Guru
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PhotoRec
PhotoRec is a free file recovery program for retrieving lost videos, documents, archives, and pictures from storage media and disk images. It searches the underlying data instead of relying on the file system, which can help after file-system damage or reformatting. It recognizes more than 480 file extensions across about 300 file families, and listed file systems include FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+.
Supported sources include hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards, USB drives, raw disk images, and EnCase E01 images. PhotoRec runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, DOS, several BSD systems, Solaris, and other Unix systems. It accesses the recovery drive or card in read-only mode; recovered files should go to a different partition. The portable download runs after extracting its archive, without an installer. QPhotoRec provides a graphical interface, while PhotoRec can also run from scripts or batch files with command-line options. The maker says it usually cannot recover original filenames and does not work well with ReiserFS.