Clever Data Recovery helps you recover deleted files on your Mac - photos, videos, documents, and more - from internal drives, external hard drives, USB flash drives, and SD cards.
Version 6 offers a new streamlined user interface that will help you navigate, preview, sort, and filter your recoverable data with ease.
Clever Data Recovery can recover your deleted pictures and photos, music, documents, applications, videos, notes, and other data. There are several data recovery algorithms running in a smart sequence within the software. "Quick Scan" and "Search for Lost Partitions" can recover files of any format. "Deep Scan" file recovery works on a lower level and analyzes disks as binary entities. It runs your hard drive recovery based on file signatures, thus original file names, locations and properties aren't always recoverable.
Clever Data Recovery can recover deleted data from all major file systems, including APFS, HFS+, FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, EXT4, and ExFAT, and can even work with formatted disk images. If your data is still physically present, the app can undelete it for you. It can also get your data back from byte-by-byte disk images in DMG, ISO, and IMG formats, as well as from NAS devices and Linux machines accessed over SSH.
Clever Data Recovery is developed by CleverFiles, a well-known data solutions brand founded in 2011. You can be sure you are getting an app of the best quality.
We are always around if you have any questions: help@cleverfiles.com
Your lost data can be recovered from almost any internal or external media, including your Mac’s hard drive (excluding system partitions), any disk you can mount to your Mac, USB flash drives, cameras, memory cards, external hard drives, and other Macs connected in Target Disk Mode.
** How to create and recover from a disk image **
Clever Data Recovery uses uncompressed (byte-by-byte) disk images as the source for data recovery.
Here's how you can create them really easily:
1. Run Disk Utility, it's a standard macOS app.
2. Go to File > New > Disk Image from "YOUR_DISK_NAME".
3. Choose "read-write" as your Image format. Do not choose "Compressed", deleted data will not be copied if you do.
4. Set encryption to "none".
5. Save your disk image, and load it in Clever Data Recovery when done.
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It’s working!
stenusmc
Had a SDD 5T drive disappear. Disk Utility could see it, but not mount it. Could not make a disk image of it. Disk Drill was able to access it, and is in the process of recovering the data (5 days, but still, I’m getting important files back…). I’m sure if I would have thrashed around a little more, I could recover the data in smaller chunks, but I was too excited to see the files listed and had to slam that recovery button. So far it is almost half done, and still chugging along. I am able to use and move the recovered files with no issues (yet…I’m sure there are a few trashed files I’ll run across, but still, it is a win if I get the majority of them back.) I did have to download an additional file from the developer’s website in order to get it to start recovering the files - not sure why it wasn’t included in the program app, unless it is something that needs regular updating?
Best recovery app of all the (many) recovery apps I’ve tried
WendieWard2
After a mishap with a drive used for both backup and a large media library (note to self: in Carbon Copy Cloner, ALWAYS make sure that “Protect Root-Level Items” is turned ON), I tried several different recovery apps to try to bring back some of the 3TB of data I accidentally deleted. Disk Drill was one of the only ones that would even launch (apparently the other apps didn’t like one of my external drives). The interface is great—clean and professional. Over the three days required to scan such a large drive, Disk Drill found a massive list of files (hard to say if it’s really all of them, but it’s gotta be close). Luckily, unlike some other recovery apps, you can pause, save, and resume your scanning progress at any time, so my laptop didn’t have to stay in one place for three days straight. Once the scan is over, recovering the files is easy—just select the ones you want and click the “Recover” button. My one major gripe is that, for some reason, it changes .MKV video files to “.webm” files. As far as I can tell, the only way to fix this is to use one of the many third-party MKV utilities to restore the proper container. Though I’m happy to have those files back at all, the conversion process can be time consuming, and I hope they’ll fix this issue in a future update. Bottom line: until human error and equipment malfunction are a thing of the past, Disk Drill is a must have.
Great Recovery App To Say The Least
SKBigSurUser
When my 128gb Usb Pen Drive that had all my Mac’s needed Software and Games backed up on it became unusable on my Mac, I didn’t think I would be able to get any of my files back at all. All was lost until I found Disk Drill, it didn’t recover everything that was on the drive completely as some the stuff just was to far corrupted but what it did recover were my most important files that I could not have recovered with out it. It is a real life savor and it even gave me a good point of where to look to recover the other files that couldn’t be saved from my Pin Drive. With out which I would have no way of knowing what all the files even were that I lost, relying on my memory alone I would have been at a real loss. If you need a solution to save your lost files or data on a non functioning drive Disk Drill is the tool worth having. It took about two hours to scan my Usb Drive but I was able to preview the recovery process and see that it was working to bring back many of my lost files and that they were intact and recoverable by Disk Drill. I was immediately sold when I realized what it could do, I give it Five Stars. I think it is the best Recovery Tool there is, Thank You, Disk Drill and cleverfiles..
Saved Me!
EddieWouldStillGo
I was shooting some 4K footage for a documentary and 384 gigs of footage disappeared when one of my hard drives took a dive. Worse yet, the footage was of the main subject of the documentary who was only available for one morning for a sit-down interview. A reshoot was out of the question. I had a few days before I had to deliver the footage and I’m sweating bullets. Then I remembered that Disk Drill had gotten me out of a similar jam a few years ago. I fired up the app and let it scan the dead drive. It took about an hour, but then it showed me a directory of all the missing files. (A nice feature is the ability to save a scan session if you’re not recovering all your files at once.) You can preview files before recovering them if you’re unsure of what you’re looking for, which is pretty handy if you’re searching through a gazillion image files with unhelpful file names. You can also tell Disk Drill to search for only certain types of files to save time. I found the folders for the missing footage and then started the recovery process. Disk Drill recovered every single frame! I went from total despair to elation, breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked all the higher powers that Disk Drill exists. Thank you, everyone at CleverFiles!
Advanced Camera Recovery module has been added for fragment-deleted videos and photos from multiple device types.
Improved categorization and visibility of different storage device types in the sidebar.
Better detection and recovery of files on storages with ReFS.
Optimized scanning and recovery chance prediction for storages with ReFS.
NTFS scanning was greatly optimized.
FAT32 scanning speed has been optimized.
Fixed rare crashes on SSH devices.
Version 6.2
The developer, Sergii Sementsov, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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