If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of losing photos because of either accidental deletion or saving over an original file, you may want to take a look at the recovery tools available in Undelete 2009.
Undelete 2009 is a software application that claims not only to recover deleted files but older versions of saved files as well. This recovery ability doesn’t just apply to files deleted from the main hard drive of your computer, but it extends to removable drives as well. This even includes files that were deleted from digital cameras.
In addition to its recovery options, Undelete 2009 also contains a tool to securely delete files permanently. According to Diskeeper, the developers of Undelete 2009, the methodology used in the development of this purging process is the same as that employed by the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense.
One thing I really like about Undelete 2009 is the Recovery Bin feature. It sits on your desktop like any other icon, and double-clicking it opens the program. At first, I assumed this would be just a single folder filled with deleted objects that you would have to sort through in order to find the file you wanted to recover. This isn’t the case at all.
The directory structure of your computer is duplicated in the Recovery Bin so all you have to do to find the file you want to recover is navigate to the directory where it was last stored. However, if you can’t remember that directory, there’s a nice search feature that allows you to search for the file either by name or by the date the file was either deleted or created.
That last option is the one I know I’ll use the most. When I want to recover a file, it’s usually right after I delete it while I’m still sitting there asking myself, “Why did I just do that?” Having the option to pull up deleted files by date makes it a lot easier to find these files without having to worry about trying to remember the name or the directory where they were stored.
Michele McDonough is a web programmer and independant technical consultant living in the northern Nevada area. In addition to her other freelance work, she is currently acting as a major adviser and project... read more
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