Recover | Boomerang Data Recovery | Promises a lot, does not deliver.

Boomerang Data Recovery

recover deleted files, damaged disks...

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Promises a lot, does not deliver.

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Contributed by: PowerTama Monday, April 09 2007 @ 07:45 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

Very fast and easy to use.
Support is very week. Contacted the developer before buying and he gave snippy condescending responses. Not a nice person to work with.
Features are neutral. It has a Maclike interface.
Stability is poor. On a working MBP 2.16GHZ 3GB RAM on a fresh restart Boomerang crashed. I have run Boomerang 6 times and it crashed just that once.
If you can get something important back it would be worth the purchase price. Boomerang finds all sorts of files but I have never recovered anything useful. As an experiment today I threw a bunch of folders and files in the trash just to see how Boomerang would perform. It found half of the items I was looking for. Hopefully if I was ever in a real bind Boomerang would return some value in the investment.

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Promises a lot, does not deliver. - PowerTama

weak, not week

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Monday, April 09 2007 @ 07:45 PM PDT

Promises a lot, does not deliver. - Boomerang

Deleted files are difficult to recover because of the way OS X is designed using BSD unix. On Windows systems, the FAT stores the location of files, even deleted ones, so its much easier to recover those. On Mac, the only way to get deleted files back is to use a signature and try and re-create the files but if the files are scattered all over the drive and not in order, the files won't be recovered.

Unfortunately, no data recovery program can be 100% effective because of how Apple designs the operating system and the BSD unix subsystem.

You can actually create new signatures yourself from the software and improve your chances of a successful recovery. But if you have a really fragmented hard drive, your chances of recovering deleted data is not likely.

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Tuesday, April 10 2007 @ 11:48 AM PDT

Promises a lot, does not deliver. - PowerTama

Tried on Windows FAT File System as well. Nothing useful recovered. YMMV.

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Monday, June 18 2007 @ 05:46 PM PDT