Many times we delete some files from our computer without seeing what we are deleting and in this case we delete some priceless photos of our vacation or of last holidays and so on.
Or it may happen that you had photos on a USB but someone else has formatted it without your knowledge, and you don’t have any kind of backup.
Ashampoo GetBack Photo allows you to recover lost or deleted photos and images from your internal drives, external drives, and external devices (such as smartphones, tablets, cameras, etc.).
Pros
- Recovers deleted (i.e. photos/images deleted normally, either on purpose or accident) and lost (i.e. photos/images lost due to corruption, format, crash, etc.) photos and images
- Supports recovery of major image formats: JPG, PNG, BMP, PSD, TIF, GIF, HDP, APCDOC, PCD and “many current RAW formats”
- Supports all internal and external drives (USB flash drive, external hard drive, etc.), devices of any operating system (smartphones, tablets, cameras, etc.), and cards (microSD, etc.). Anything that is mounted in Windows as a storage device can be scanned by Ashampoo GetBack Photo.
- Is able to find and recover photos/images embedded in PDF and Word files
- Recovers EXIF and IPTC metadata
- Provides a preview of photos/images prior to you actually recovering them
- Tells you the size (resolution) of photos/images prior to you actually recovering them
- Allows you to recover photos/images in batch, meaning you don’t have to recover them one by one
- Gives you the ability to select if you want to do a “quick” scan which only looks for JPG, PNG, BMP, and GIF images or a “complex” scan which looks for all supported image formats, including JPG/PNG/BMP/GIF, PSD, and RAW. (By default Ashampoo GetBack Photo is set to do a quick scan. You can change to complex scan via Configuration -> Settings.)
- Not computer resources intensive while scanning: uses less than 20% CPU and less than 30 MB RAM while scanning. (I tested it on Win7 with a dual-core i5 processor that supports hyper-threading and 4GB RAM.)
- Is very easy to use and fairly effective — will find thousands of photos/images
- Doesn’t recover file names. It is understandable that Ashampoo GetBack Photo is unable to recover file names for images/photos lost due to corruption, format, crash, etc. but it is inexcusable that Ashampoo GetBack Photo is unable to recover file names for deleted images/photos.
- Shows preview of images that can be recovered but doesn’t allow you to view preview in full size — previews are shown as thumbnails in less than 200×150 in size
- Buggy
- Allows you to select a specific partition on a drive (internal or external) to scan but then scans the whole drive instead of the specific partition you selected
- Won’t detect external devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) if they are loaded into Windows as a Portable Media Player as opposed to simply being loaded into Windows as a regular storage device
- Didn’t show thumbnail previews of found images when I used Ashampoo GetBack Photo on my Android smartphone (Samsung Nexus S) but did show thumbnail previews when I used Ashampoo GetBack Photo on my internal hard drive. This leads me to believe thumbnail previews are only shown when scanning internal drives but are not shown when scanning external drives/devices. Because the developer doesn’t specifically mention thumbnail previews are only for internal devices, I’m chalking this one up as a bug.
- Doesn’t always properly recover photos/images it shows as recoverable. For example, some photos/images are still corrupted and only parts of the “recovered” image as oppose to it all. I realize that not all photos/images are properly recoverable (due to how drives work — once a file has been written over it is near impossible to recover) but if a photo/image is not able to be properly recovered, why is Ashampoo GetBack Photo showing it as recoverable?
- Is not intelligent enough to differentiate between photos that have been lost or accidentally deleted and photos/images that were purposefully deleted (i.e. junk photos/images you don’t want to recover). More specifically, recovers photos/images from the temporary files of internet browsers instead of ignoring them because those photos/images were, 99 out of 100 times, purposefully deleted. The program should at least give users the option to disable recovering purposefully deleted photos/images (such as the just-mentioned photos/images in temp files).
- Is not computer resources intensive while scanning but Ashampoo GetBack Photo is computer resource intensive while recovering images/photos — uses roughly 60-85% CPU and RAM usage constantly increases as photos/images are being recovered — it ended up at over 1,000 MB RAM for me by the time it was done recovering roughly 15,000 photos/images. (I tested it on Win7 with a dual-core i5 processor that supports hyper-threading and 4GB RAM.)
- Is very slow. Took roughly 73 minutes to scan a 13.3
GB drive, and over an hour to actually recover roughly 15,000
photos/images that were found. And this was while using the quick scan
feature. Imagine how slow it would be with complex scan.
- NOTE: The slow speed of this program is directly related to the fact that it uses relatively few computer resources while scanning. However, I’m not sure why it takes so long to actually recover images/photos after Ashampoo GetBack Photo finds them.
- Must be run from within Windows — does not support the ability to boot from CD/DVD/USB recoverable/rescue media from outside Windows
- Hasn’t been updated since April 2012, meaning development of Ashampoo GetBack Photo is either dead or very slow. Whatever the case maybe, you don’t want to shell out $19.95 for a program with dead or slow development.
- Only works with photos/images. I realize that this program is specifically designed for just photos/images but if I were to pay for a shareware file recovery program, I’d want to pay for one that does photos/images plus other files. It should be mentioned, however, Ashampoo GetBack Photo is just $19.95, which is not a very high price for a file recovery program… so the fact that it only supports photos/images is not a deal-breaker but still deserves being mentioned.
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