Reviews for ProSoft Data Rescue 3

I was able to use this product on my RAID-1 drive that had suddenly gone blank and within seconds after running a quick scan I saw all of my files and was able to retrieve over 350GB of precious family videos. The customer support people were friendly and helpful (thanks, David), and the fact that I could download the software and see what it would recover before paying for it was really helpful!

I had lost some files in my forced migration from my PowerBook 4 to My new MacBook Pro. These files were not on my TimeMachine backup but were on another disc that I had recorded 'just in case'. Inevitably this other disc was erased unexpectedly by some other s/w I had installed. I searched the web and found Data Rescue 3 which I used to do a scan on trial. I was so pleased with the analysis that I signed up immediately. Data Rescue 3 has indeed found all my files and I have been able to rename the retrieved files and save them into my Document directory. I have revisited the "Reconstructed" files twice more to locate and rename files that would otherwise have been lost forever. Data Recovery 3 does all that it claims to do and more. It is very user friendly and highly recommended.

This product has been a mac staple for years, and years. And years.

It's one of those products that you don't need until you need it, then you'd better have it. Eventually, unless you're really lucky, you'll need it. If you though time machine was cool, this product actually compliments it by doing recovery on non-tm disks. I've used it to recover family photos, fix external cf cards that have failed while in camera (saving photos I thought were gone). It's epic.

Buy it.

My 320gb hard drive on my MacBook pro went down. DR3 to the rescue and with some help from Prosoft's customer support, every single file was recovered. If you're up the creek without a paddle, I can't recommend it highly enough.

An external drive wasn't mounting with some very important data inside. It would have been a disaster and spelled certain death with a new client if it wasn't recovered. Data Rescue was very easy to use and recovered everything with a simple scan. The software goes much deeper for harder-to-recover drives. I'm very glad I have it, because all hard drives fail eventually.

I unfortunately deleted my 12T PROMISE RAID unit in a fraction of a second (my fault, i'm stupid) I was around to kill myself when i tried (with no hope at all) DARA RESCUE 3 and this software is absolutely amazing !!
Definitely, it will depend on the size of your disk for the time it will run, but even after 3 weeks (oh, yes) i have recover all my data !
This is my best 100$ spent !!
Don't kill yourself before you tried it !

I had inadvertently deleted all of my email in my inbox when deleting another Mail account (I have suggested to Apple that they address this issue as I am not the only one to have done this!). After 2 phone calls with Apple Support they told me that the messages were gone! I purchased this product and with a lot of patience from Jeremy in the ProSoft Support department (yes, a REAL person!!) in a very short time I had all of my emails back! This program is absolutely worth it's weight in gold!!

A friend of mine recently accidentally re-formatted his External Hard Drive which contained all his iTunes Music library and media. As a long time user of Drive Genius, last night, I purchased Data Rescue 3, ran it all night and recovered all 115GB of his music, and I have now imported the music back into iTunes. I have never ventured into data recovery before, but I have to say that your program is not only effective, but also very intuitive to use. I didn't have time to read the full manual. Just used the deleted Items scan. It took about 7 hours to scan and about 4 hrs to recover.
I love the way the recovered files are shown in Folders, in this case Music, with each type nested inside, i.e. MP3, AIFF, etc It even restored the song and album name, and the artwork artwork!
It is also good value for money.
Needless to say we are both very impressed with Data Rescue!

What can I say? It saved my backside and is worth every penny. A corrupted camera memory card was filled with photos from a never-to-be-organised-party. When Lightroom and the camera said "what photos?", I cried. After some digging with Data Rescue II, I got the whole lot back in perfect RAW form. I can't thank the guys who wrote this software enough.