R-Undelete: version history
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:31 pm
R-Undelete 6.7.180011 Thu Nov 24, 2022
Bugfixes
- It was impossible to specify paths for recovered and other files on the portable version. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.7.180009 Fri Jul 01, 2022
New features:
+ Support for the ReFS 3.4 and 3.7 file systems (Windows Server 2019-2022) has been added. NTFS de-duplication included.
+ New file types have been added to all file systems.
+ R-Undelete now enumerates FAT folders with partially damages sectors.
Improvements:
* Detection of partition's sector size has been improved.
* Processing of sparse files has been improved.
* Detection of NTFS file systems with overwritten parts has been improved.
Bugfixes:
- The program incorrectly determined the best FAT table for FAT12/16 file systems when the sector-wise processing was used. Fixed.
- Waste copies of GPT partitions could be found if a GPT HDD was formatted into an LDM/MBR disk. Fixed.
- Waste copies of partition records could be found when GPT partition entries were partially overwritten. Fixed. Now they are checked against validity, and such records are ignored.
- The FAT32 bitlocker to go couldn't be recognized. Fixed.
- When an NTFS file system was partially scanned, its reconstructed MFT included only the scanned part of that MFT. Fixed. The non-scanned parts of the original MFT are now included, too, using its FS file.
- If a special partition was mounted with a non-standard tool, like Mount ESP, to a disk letter through a link to the object like \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1, its corresponding volume was doubled, and two volumes were created. Fixed.
- Only a GPT partition, regardless of its validity, was parsed if the disk contained both LDM/MBR and LDM/GPT partition tables. Fixed.
- NTFS file systems were parsed incorrectly if their cluster size was 64k. Fixed.
- NTFS partitions weren't found in the device didn't have the boot record. Fixed.
- Root folders with small numbers of files (1-2) on FAT16/32 file systems were detected incorrectly. Fixed.
- Deleted partitions were not searched for if a direct volume was found on a flash drive. Fixed.
- Partitions were shown two times if the partition GPTs had the same offset/size but different GPT Guids. Fixed.
- SMART for intel NVME devices may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.6.175721 Mon Feb 17, 2020
New features
+ A completely overhauled file previewer which can now show picture tiles and first frames of video files as icons, and supports a large number of video/audio/graphic/document file formats. These files can now be played back without their respective applications installed.
+ Estimation of chances for successful file recovery.
+ Recovery of names and paths for files deleted to Recycle Bin and Trash.
+ Support for ReFS 3.4 file system.
Improvements:
* Folder tree reconstruction has been improved for supported file systems.
* Memory usage has been optimized and debugged.
* The parsing and reconstruction of the FAT32 and NTFS file systems has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- The program may sometimes have crashed when opening heavily corrupted file systems. Fixed.
- R-Undelete may have temporally frozen when opening an NTFS partition with many compressed files. Fixed.
- The program may have opened some partitions with large numbers of files for a long time. Fixed.
- Existing files may have been shown as deleted in cross-linked folders on FAT32 partitions. Fixed.
- Sometimes the program may have crashed or frozen during file enumeration and disk scan. Fixed.
- Some small interface and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.5.170927 Wed Jun 27, 2018
Improvements:
* NTFS file system parsing has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- Byte-to-bite images (.disk) could not be opened. Fixed.
- Non-resident symlink parsing on NTFS devices may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Minor parsing bugs for the NTFS file system have been fixed.
- Minor bugs in the video file preview have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.5.170757 Wed Apr 18, 2018
Bug-fixes:
- Many cosmetic bug-fixes.
- If a file mask was applied to graphic files in the graphic file view, some dummy files may have appeared when the program returned to the tile view. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.5.1702 Mon Mar 19, 2018
New features:
+ If the program finds a previous partition with a different file system during the scan, files from that partition can now be separately shown and recovered.
+ Video files can be shown as thumbnails.
+ When the scan info of a partially scanned disk is selected, scan of the non-scanned area is automatically started.
+ Program restart is suggested when updates have been installed.
Improvements:
* Picture tiles are shown faster.
* Detection of FAT32 disks.
Bug-fixes
- Slow scan of a disk formatted from the FAT32 file system. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed during disk scan or showing thumbnails. Fixed.
- File masks may have not shown sometimes, even though the mask was still active. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic fixes.
R-Undelete 6.3.170153 Fri Feb 02, 2018
Improvements:
* Tile appearance has been improved for all three sizes.
Bug-fixes:
- The Shred button may have shown incorrect number of files to shred when switching from any tabs to the Shredder one.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.3.170123 Fri Dec 22, 2017
Improvements:
* Tile view has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- Wiped pictures could be viewed in Viewer and sent to Shredder again. Fixed.
- Initially, Custom view appeared as a blank tab until clicking the Settings button.
- Shred files button may have shown incorrect number of files for a short time.
- Wiped tile view has been corrected.
R-Undelete 6.3.170117 Thu Dec 21, 2017
New features:
+ Shredder that zeros out the content of selected deleted files has been added. The content of these files becomes unrecoverable after this procedure.
Improvements:
* Several optimizations in the file recovery kernel.
* File viewer has better support for text documents.
* USB devices are recognized faster during program startup.
* File/folder tree is shown faster.
Bug-fixes:
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2.169945 Wed Nov 15, 2017
Improvements:
* Improved NTFS file recovery
* Improved distribution of system resources and memory
* Improved file viewer
* Minor user interface improvements
Bug-fixes
- Fixed possible program crash during file tree display
- Fixed "select/deselect" button in "Name" column
R-Undelete 6.2.169821 Wed Oct 25, 2017
Changes:
= The "Name" checkbox on the "Files" panel was changed to a button.
Bug-fixes
- Scan info may not always have been saved upon image closing. Fixed.
- When the Custom time mask was selected, the default value "Today" may have not been applied until the mask was switched to and from some other date. Fixed.
- The recovery progress may have been shown incorrectly for large files (app.1GB+). Fixed.
- File type selection may have been lost on the Custom tab after switching to another tab. Fixed.
- Scan position on the progress bar may have been lost when the scan was stopped and then resumed. Fixed.
- Scan for unallocated space may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Two separate unallocated spaces may have been shown as one on the Disks panel. Fixed.
- Navigation and file marking in the picture file viewer may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2.169781 Fri Oct 13, 2017
Improvements:
* Update download progress is now shown in percent.
* R-Undelete throws a request to restart to complete its update.
* Several cosmetic enhancements in program's GUI.
Bug-fixes:
- File marking by the left mouse click might have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2.169776 Tue Oct 10, 2017
Improvements:
* Improved processing of NTFS and FAT/exFAT partitions
* Multiple files can be marked simultaneously with a mouse and keyboard.
Bug-fixes:
- When recovered files with the same "access time" were saved to another disk with a file system with a different time accuracy, the discrepancy was not considered. Fixed.
- Long text strings might have been truncated in the Log pane and some dialog boxes. Fixed.
- Some files might have been unwittingly marked in Extra Found Files. Fixed.
- After recovering encrypted files under Windows 8,10 they might have been available only after the file system was re-mounted. Fixed.
- File marks might have appear after a delay. Fixed.
- The full file path was not displayed in the picture viewer. Fixed.
- The file viewer might have shown the docx, xlsx files incorrectly. Fixed.
- Several fixes in the video player module.
R-Undelete 6.2.169731 Sun Sep 17, 2017
New features:
+ File scan info is automatically saved then loaded. Files
are saved into %AppData%/R-TT/RUndelete/scaninfo and stored for 30
days.
Improvements:
* Update checking, loading, and installing
* General stability of the program
* Program compatibility with Windows XP
Bug-fixes:
- Possible program crashing when displaying files fixed.
- When scanning of an unrecognized / unallocated space was interrupted and a partition had been found, only the found partition was shown. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2 build 169597 September 6, 2017
Improvements:
* More information is displayed during disk image creation
Bugfixes:
* Several bugs that may resulted in program lags are fixed
* Some GUI cosmetic bugs are fixed
R-Undelete 6.2 build 169533 August 24, 2017
New features:
+ File recovery from disks with unrecognized or unsupported file systems
Improvements
* Image files are automatically shown as tiles on the Pictures tab
* Small unallocated spaces (less than 16MB) and system partitions where user files are unlikely to reside are no more shown on the Disks panel
R-Undelete 6.1 build 169323 July 24, 2017
New features:
+ A new, redesigned R-Undelete wizard-style interface
+ Lifetime Updates
+ Automatic pre-sorting of found files to the file type tabs and sorting files by their names, paths, sizes, or dates
Improvements:
* Modernization of the data analyzing kernel that speeds up file recovery procedure and refines its results
* File viewer design and performance enhancements
Bugfixes
- It was impossible to specify paths for recovered and other files on the portable version. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.7.180009 Fri Jul 01, 2022
New features:
+ Support for the ReFS 3.4 and 3.7 file systems (Windows Server 2019-2022) has been added. NTFS de-duplication included.
+ New file types have been added to all file systems.
+ R-Undelete now enumerates FAT folders with partially damages sectors.
Improvements:
* Detection of partition's sector size has been improved.
* Processing of sparse files has been improved.
* Detection of NTFS file systems with overwritten parts has been improved.
Bugfixes:
- The program incorrectly determined the best FAT table for FAT12/16 file systems when the sector-wise processing was used. Fixed.
- Waste copies of GPT partitions could be found if a GPT HDD was formatted into an LDM/MBR disk. Fixed.
- Waste copies of partition records could be found when GPT partition entries were partially overwritten. Fixed. Now they are checked against validity, and such records are ignored.
- The FAT32 bitlocker to go couldn't be recognized. Fixed.
- When an NTFS file system was partially scanned, its reconstructed MFT included only the scanned part of that MFT. Fixed. The non-scanned parts of the original MFT are now included, too, using its FS file.
- If a special partition was mounted with a non-standard tool, like Mount ESP, to a disk letter through a link to the object like \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1, its corresponding volume was doubled, and two volumes were created. Fixed.
- Only a GPT partition, regardless of its validity, was parsed if the disk contained both LDM/MBR and LDM/GPT partition tables. Fixed.
- NTFS file systems were parsed incorrectly if their cluster size was 64k. Fixed.
- NTFS partitions weren't found in the device didn't have the boot record. Fixed.
- Root folders with small numbers of files (1-2) on FAT16/32 file systems were detected incorrectly. Fixed.
- Deleted partitions were not searched for if a direct volume was found on a flash drive. Fixed.
- Partitions were shown two times if the partition GPTs had the same offset/size but different GPT Guids. Fixed.
- SMART for intel NVME devices may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.6.175721 Mon Feb 17, 2020
New features
+ A completely overhauled file previewer which can now show picture tiles and first frames of video files as icons, and supports a large number of video/audio/graphic/document file formats. These files can now be played back without their respective applications installed.
+ Estimation of chances for successful file recovery.
+ Recovery of names and paths for files deleted to Recycle Bin and Trash.
+ Support for ReFS 3.4 file system.
Improvements:
* Folder tree reconstruction has been improved for supported file systems.
* Memory usage has been optimized and debugged.
* The parsing and reconstruction of the FAT32 and NTFS file systems has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- The program may sometimes have crashed when opening heavily corrupted file systems. Fixed.
- R-Undelete may have temporally frozen when opening an NTFS partition with many compressed files. Fixed.
- The program may have opened some partitions with large numbers of files for a long time. Fixed.
- Existing files may have been shown as deleted in cross-linked folders on FAT32 partitions. Fixed.
- Sometimes the program may have crashed or frozen during file enumeration and disk scan. Fixed.
- Some small interface and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.5.170927 Wed Jun 27, 2018
Improvements:
* NTFS file system parsing has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- Byte-to-bite images (.disk) could not be opened. Fixed.
- Non-resident symlink parsing on NTFS devices may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Minor parsing bugs for the NTFS file system have been fixed.
- Minor bugs in the video file preview have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.5.170757 Wed Apr 18, 2018
Bug-fixes:
- Many cosmetic bug-fixes.
- If a file mask was applied to graphic files in the graphic file view, some dummy files may have appeared when the program returned to the tile view. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.5.1702 Mon Mar 19, 2018
New features:
+ If the program finds a previous partition with a different file system during the scan, files from that partition can now be separately shown and recovered.
+ Video files can be shown as thumbnails.
+ When the scan info of a partially scanned disk is selected, scan of the non-scanned area is automatically started.
+ Program restart is suggested when updates have been installed.
Improvements:
* Picture tiles are shown faster.
* Detection of FAT32 disks.
Bug-fixes
- Slow scan of a disk formatted from the FAT32 file system. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed during disk scan or showing thumbnails. Fixed.
- File masks may have not shown sometimes, even though the mask was still active. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic fixes.
R-Undelete 6.3.170153 Fri Feb 02, 2018
Improvements:
* Tile appearance has been improved for all three sizes.
Bug-fixes:
- The Shred button may have shown incorrect number of files to shred when switching from any tabs to the Shredder one.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.3.170123 Fri Dec 22, 2017
Improvements:
* Tile view has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- Wiped pictures could be viewed in Viewer and sent to Shredder again. Fixed.
- Initially, Custom view appeared as a blank tab until clicking the Settings button.
- Shred files button may have shown incorrect number of files for a short time.
- Wiped tile view has been corrected.
R-Undelete 6.3.170117 Thu Dec 21, 2017
New features:
+ Shredder that zeros out the content of selected deleted files has been added. The content of these files becomes unrecoverable after this procedure.
Improvements:
* Several optimizations in the file recovery kernel.
* File viewer has better support for text documents.
* USB devices are recognized faster during program startup.
* File/folder tree is shown faster.
Bug-fixes:
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2.169945 Wed Nov 15, 2017
Improvements:
* Improved NTFS file recovery
* Improved distribution of system resources and memory
* Improved file viewer
* Minor user interface improvements
Bug-fixes
- Fixed possible program crash during file tree display
- Fixed "select/deselect" button in "Name" column
R-Undelete 6.2.169821 Wed Oct 25, 2017
Changes:
= The "Name" checkbox on the "Files" panel was changed to a button.
Bug-fixes
- Scan info may not always have been saved upon image closing. Fixed.
- When the Custom time mask was selected, the default value "Today" may have not been applied until the mask was switched to and from some other date. Fixed.
- The recovery progress may have been shown incorrectly for large files (app.1GB+). Fixed.
- File type selection may have been lost on the Custom tab after switching to another tab. Fixed.
- Scan position on the progress bar may have been lost when the scan was stopped and then resumed. Fixed.
- Scan for unallocated space may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Two separate unallocated spaces may have been shown as one on the Disks panel. Fixed.
- Navigation and file marking in the picture file viewer may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2.169781 Fri Oct 13, 2017
Improvements:
* Update download progress is now shown in percent.
* R-Undelete throws a request to restart to complete its update.
* Several cosmetic enhancements in program's GUI.
Bug-fixes:
- File marking by the left mouse click might have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2.169776 Tue Oct 10, 2017
Improvements:
* Improved processing of NTFS and FAT/exFAT partitions
* Multiple files can be marked simultaneously with a mouse and keyboard.
Bug-fixes:
- When recovered files with the same "access time" were saved to another disk with a file system with a different time accuracy, the discrepancy was not considered. Fixed.
- Long text strings might have been truncated in the Log pane and some dialog boxes. Fixed.
- Some files might have been unwittingly marked in Extra Found Files. Fixed.
- After recovering encrypted files under Windows 8,10 they might have been available only after the file system was re-mounted. Fixed.
- File marks might have appear after a delay. Fixed.
- The full file path was not displayed in the picture viewer. Fixed.
- The file viewer might have shown the docx, xlsx files incorrectly. Fixed.
- Several fixes in the video player module.
R-Undelete 6.2.169731 Sun Sep 17, 2017
New features:
+ File scan info is automatically saved then loaded. Files
are saved into %AppData%/R-TT/RUndelete/scaninfo and stored for 30
days.
Improvements:
* Update checking, loading, and installing
* General stability of the program
* Program compatibility with Windows XP
Bug-fixes:
- Possible program crashing when displaying files fixed.
- When scanning of an unrecognized / unallocated space was interrupted and a partition had been found, only the found partition was shown. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs fixed.
R-Undelete 6.2 build 169597 September 6, 2017
Improvements:
* More information is displayed during disk image creation
Bugfixes:
* Several bugs that may resulted in program lags are fixed
* Some GUI cosmetic bugs are fixed
R-Undelete 6.2 build 169533 August 24, 2017
New features:
+ File recovery from disks with unrecognized or unsupported file systems
Improvements
* Image files are automatically shown as tiles on the Pictures tab
* Small unallocated spaces (less than 16MB) and system partitions where user files are unlikely to reside are no more shown on the Disks panel
R-Undelete 6.1 build 169323 July 24, 2017
New features:
+ A new, redesigned R-Undelete wizard-style interface
+ Lifetime Updates
+ Automatic pre-sorting of found files to the file type tabs and sorting files by their names, paths, sizes, or dates
Improvements:
* Modernization of the data analyzing kernel that speeds up file recovery procedure and refines its results
* File viewer design and performance enhancements