BackTrack - 4.1.3

Previous versions of Backtrack 3 were good at recording keystrokes but not particularly user-friendly when it came to making use of the recovered data. The big improvement in v 3.6 is to introduce very precise control over what is exported from BackTrack, in the event of an application crash or accidental document deletion.

It is now possible to sort and subsort records e.g. by Date & Time, Application and Window (click first on Date & Time, then on Application then on Window to do this -unfortunately this is not documented in the online Help, which would benefit generally from expansion and some examples), so grouping together chronologically all the work done on a particular document. These records can then be selected (highlighted) and exported to a text file. A new Export tab in BackTrack Preferences provides control over which combinations of data (Text) and metadata (Date & Time, Application, Window, Delta Time) to include.

In previous versions of BackTrack ALL records were exported and included ALL metadata, making it quite complicated to reconstruct, say, a Word document that had been put together over several hours, punctuated by switches between windows and applications in the process.

With v.3.6 it is now easy to select and export only the text from the relevant records in BackTrack and use find/replace and spellcheck commands in Word to reconstruct the document with relative ease. The result is that BackTrack 3 has now become an extremely powerful disaster recovery tool and even better value for the shareware fee.

This is a vital utility and one from which anyone who has ever lost data (i.e. everyone!) will benefit.