# Found a great OSX data recovery program

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**Created:** [December 4, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/found-a-great-osx-data-recovery-program/59209 "2008-12-04T12:24:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![neonglh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neonglh/32/4951_2.png) [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/found-a-great-osx-data-recovery-program/59209/1 "2008-12-04T12:24:13Z")

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Long story short, I lost 4 months of photos, including my trips to Missouri, Florida, all the pictures of my cat, etc… I was so upset, and I couldn’t find any software packages that would actually find what I was looking for. Specifically, people had a lot of “blah blah blah”, but then their software didn’t do shit. Anyways, I came across this program called Stellar Pheonix Data Recovery. So far, I have recovered 48 of the photos, and its sitting here cranking the rest of the hard drive, sector by sector. The only problem is that it goes really slow. I started the scan this morning at 9 am, and since then, it has gone through a little more than 11 million sectors on the hard drive, out of 90 million. It will take some time, but I am confident that I will recover most of them.

The coolest part is that I never actually had the images on my computer. I synced my iPhone with the laptop, but I didn’t have photos be one of the items that it synced up. It must have still put them onto the hard drive, just not written to the tables or something, so I am able to recover them. It is the full, high res image too, not a scaled down thumbnail version.

The program is simple to use, and serial numbers are freely available. I hope none of you have to recover data, as it is always stressful, but if you hve a Mac and need to do it, this is what I would recommend.

–mark

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**Author:** ![ILC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilc/32/5337_2.png) [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/found-a-great-osx-data-recovery-program/59209/2 "2008-12-04T12:28:48Z")

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all the pictures of my cat.

LOL you homo

Thanks for the tip on the program though :tup:

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**Author:** ![neonglh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neonglh/32/4951_2.png) [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/found-a-great-osx-data-recovery-program/59209/3 "2008-12-04T12:30:00Z")

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> [@ILC](#):
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> LOL you homo

:mamoru:

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**Author:** ![ZOMGVTEK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zomgvtek/32/5063_2.png) [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/found-a-great-osx-data-recovery-program/59209/4 "2008-12-04T12:37:29Z")

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Ive used this software before, but i found it to be far inferior compared to this one i found. Im not sure what its called, but i probably can dig it up. It was difficult to find, but it worked epicly amazing. Recovered every file i needed. Holy crap is it expensive though, its like $2k or something crazy, and was difficult to crack and use.

The Stellar Pheonix one only found a few for some reason.