#DVD RECOVERY SOFTWARE FOR MAC UPDATE#
#DVD RECOVERY SOFTWARE FOR MAC CODE#
#DVD RECOVERY SOFTWARE FOR MAC MAC#

Free software = Download Free software and also open source code also known as FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). Freeware Trialware = Download Free software but some parts are trial/shareware. RECENTLY UPDATED = The software has been updated the last 31 days. NO LONGER DEVELOPED = The software hasn't been updated in over 5 years. Type and download NO MORE UPDATES? = The software hasn't been updated in over 2 years.

#DVD RECOVERY SOFTWARE FOR MAC UPDATE#

Version number / Beta version number / Update version number and when it whas released. There's no need for any solution to be freeware, just something that I can safely say 'if this can't get the data, nothing can.Explanation: NEW SOFTWARE= New tool since your last visit NEW VERSION= New version since your last visit NEW REVIEW= New review since your last visit NEW VERSION= New version Latest version Ideally this would be something on the OSX side to maximize ability to deal with their old drive formats (the CDs I was looking at are mostly burned in the late 90s), but if I can't find anything else then something on the Windows side will have to do. I'm not 100 sure I'll get any additional data beyond what I got, but it'd be useful to know if I can as we'll likely need to hire some people to do the bulk of the data transfer (I'm just doing the first 'binder' so I can work out the process needed) and I need to know if there's any hope for these CDs. Is there anything that anyone has actually had some success with? So I'm wondering if there is an actual REAL CD recovery program that works in OSX? So far I'm mostly finding snake oil. I wouldn't suspect this to work much differently than rsync. Score -1 out of 10.ĭisk Utility (built into OSX) - It's smart enough to tell me the partition is damaged, and helpful enough to suggest that I repair it, but not helpful enough to actually let me repair it (the button is greyed out).

#DVD RECOVERY SOFTWARE FOR MAC MAC#

MiniTool Mac Data Recovery - This will scan a CD, and come up with a bunch of gibberish that doesn't even include the files that you can easily get off the CD.

Stellar Phoenix - This at least acts like it's supposed to be able to recover data from a CD, but in practice it recovers less files than rsync. VirtualLab Data Recovery - Despite a few mentions on the web site, this doesn't appear to be able to recover from CDs at all. In testing a few CDs versus a few pieces of software out there here are the results: The catch is I can't find any working software that actually does anything of note to be this potential in depth process. I wrote a script that runs rsync to copy the files to a more suitable location and I can see when there's an error so I can I presumably run some more in depth process on the CDs that are damaged.

To make things extra exciting, many of the CDs seem to only be properly readable on Macs (you can see the files on a PC, but you can't actually copy them) I'm good with a process for the good CDs. A s a surprise to no one, it turns out that about 20% of the CDs seem to have a problem with some unreadable data and about 5% can't be read at all! well, I'd say better protected, but just being written to CD-Rs isn't good enough to be called protected in the first place. I recently discovered binders of very old CDs which have some data on it which likely isn't elsewhere and I have started a project to copy the contents to our server where it can be.

Dvd recovery software for mac