Why does a free & opensource tool work better?

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Why does a free & opensource tool work better?

Post by mastereworm » Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:44 am

Hi there,

my trouble was usual: just formatted a SD card (Qumo 16 Gb class 10) in my Nikon. Then I came to my friend with r-studio 5.2 installed, we made an image, scanned it and tried to recover photos... The card was full for about a half, containing some videos in .mov & about 1000 pictures in .jpg. The recovery result was unsatisfying: only 10 percent of files (mainly from the start of the card) were readable, and could be opened in common viewers. Then we traveled to frind's company, where used R-studio 7 on the same card... and received NO readable files, while their quantity & sizes match our first try.

Googled for some time, & found some reports of success with Testdisk/Photorec - http://www.clarity.net/~adam/recoverpix.html

Then we run this FREE & opensource tool on that card - and we got all videos & photos fully readable! So why it can be so? Why R-Studio with price over $100 can't do the work, but Photorec does? Maybe your programmers try to find some useful stuff in that sourcecode - than why not to buy some things to improve your commercial product making it more powerful?

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Re: Why does a free & opensource tool work better?

Post by Alt » Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:35 am

That particular SD card or its image is needed to clarify the situation, otherwise this is nothing but words.
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Re: Why does a free & opensource tool work better?

Post by mastereworm » Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:12 am

I expected that answer:) Well, when I face next time such situation, I'll attach an image. The subject SD contained too personal pics, so I'll try to model the situation with another card.

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Re: Why does a free & opensource tool work better?

Post by Alt » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:00 am

We'll see.

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Re: Why does a free & opensource tool work better?

Post by Alt » Tue Oct 22, 2013 2:02 pm

Actually, you may make some pictures of, say, you ceiling, then format the card, and test the software.

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