Reviews for ProSoft Data Rescue 3

Was in a rush and trying to reformat a drive for a client, I accidentally reformatted my main data drive. Gulp... Googled and luckily found these guys. Downloaded the trial version which enabled me to see what I would be able to rescue. Once I saw my data was all there, I purchased the product and 8 hours later my data (350 gigs) was there and functioning. Customer support was super helpful too. Thanks a million kilobytes over! GREAT PRODUCT

Deep Scan, wait, retrieve...it's that simple. Great product and easy to use.

Ok, let me start out by saying that I am not a computer guru at all, I am a stay at home mom who loves her MacBook Pro!! I accidentally deleted all of my pictures off of iPhoto, thousands of them, and my trash had already been emptied!! I really don't know how that happened...Anyway, I was so upset thinking either I was going to have to pay a ton of money somewhere to have someone recover them or give one of the programs out there a try. I decided to try Data Rescue 3 because of mostly good reviews and because they offered free tech support, which I knew I would probably need. So I purchased the program, got an external drive, and set it up to the deleted files scan. Within hours I had my pictures back and ready to import back into iPhoto. I was so happy I could've cried! I recovered all of them, it's been a lot of work sorting through them all but worth the $99 I paid! I must also mention that it is much simpler than I thought, the program walks you through pretty much everything. I did need to call tech support one time to ask how to do the import from my external drive back into iPhoto and they were very friendly!! I would 100% recommend this program!!

Two weeks ago I had a Finder file copy operation lock-up and long story short I ended up using Secure Empty Trash on my Mac running Mountain Lion. I hadn't realized that my 140gb Aperture library had been moved to the trash during my Finder lock-up.

Everywhere I searched on the internet pointed me to the same answer, "when Secure Empty Trash" is used, the files are gone with no hope.

This library included all of our children pics, from birth to today as well as every other facet of life. Needless to say, we were speechless and in shock.

Against the insinuations of all I read online, I bought Data Rescue 3 last night and even though I had accepted the fate and even repartitioned the drive this week, Data Rescue recovered nearly every single photo and video clip from the Aperture library.

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.

Awsome pruduct! Awsome customer service!! We had our laptop computer HD crash after a bit over a year.. the Apple store put in a new hard drive (which we had to pay for and they were not able to recover ANYTHING..) We bought the Data Recovery program and an external HD .. it was pretty simple to follow the instructions and created an image of the HD that crashed.. then proceeded with a deep scan recovery and WALAH!!! almost everything was completely recovered .. We then sorted the files by type and date and in short order copied almost everything.. We actually were able to recover things we forgot about , including websites and searches and downloads that had been used in the past.. as you can see we are speechless!!! LOL. when we called for some help at Prosoft to make sure we are doing it correctly, we got through quickly and received quick and clear instructions.. Nice to see such great results in this age of techno mumble jumble which is very rare.. I am a true fan now!

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.

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!!

I was rescued by Data Rescue 3 today. Many files were lost and Data Rescue 3 recovered them perfectly. It´s fantastic!!!