PhotoRec

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

4

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

PhotoRec is a free and open-source utility software for data recovery with text-based user interface using data carving techniques, designed to recover lost files from various digital camera memory, hard disk and CD-ROM. It can recover the files with more than 480 file extensions (about 300 file families).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “PhotoRec”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Original uploaded by Limulus (Transfered by Muff cabbage), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.