
v6.6 [Feb 29, 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.
v5.1 [Feb 14, 2017]
New features:
+ Support for the ReFS2+ file system (Windows 2016 Server);
+ Support for NTFS deduplication;
+ New extended duplicate file processing options.
Improvements:
* Improved support for the NTFS log;
* Extended recovery log;
* Improved data copying in Hexadecimal viewer;
* A file path can be scrolled and copied in the "File already exists" dialog box.
Bugfixes:
- Data copy commands might work incorrectly on the Properties tab. Fixed.
- Time zones were not taken into account when sorting files by time, files might appear in the previous day. Fixed.
- Internal fixes and improvements.
v4.9 [Feb 22, 2015]
R-Undelete 4.9.158799 Mon May 25, 2015
Bugfixes:
- Sometimes R-Undelete showed folders deleted from the root folder in Extra Found Files rather than in the root folder. Fixed.
- Slow recovery of many small files (>10,000). Fixed.
- Directory Junctions weren’t showed correctly under Windows. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might not show the overall data recovery progress. Fixed.
- R-Undelete sometimes didn’t show correctly progress for some operations like partition opening, imaging. Fixed.
v4.8 [Jul 15, 2014]
Features:
- S.M.A.R.T. attribute monitoring. R-Undelete can display S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) attributes for hard drives to show their hardware health and predict their possible failures. Any unnecessary work with such hard drives should be avoided if S.M.A.R.T. warnings appear.
Bugfixes:
- The Create scan information file option on the Create Image dialog box was enabled by default. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might show deleted files/folders which MFT records were occupied with new ones on wrong places. Fixed.
- A default Crash Report filename contained an illegal character :. Fixed.
- R-Undelete didn’t take into account folder’s hard links during file search. (It didn’t show files in hard links.). Fixed.
- Incorrect behavior of the Failed hardlink recovery dialog box. Fixed.
- The Create scan information option was selected by default on the Create Image dialog box. Fixed.
- R-Undelete failed to create an image when a new folder was selected. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might freeze when attempting to open a file of a multi-file image with some other files moved to another place. Fixed.
- There was no warning about re-writing the scan info file when a new pair of a disk image and scan info files were to be written over the existing one. Fixed.
- It was impossible to change scan parameters for simultaneous disk scanning and imaging. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might freeze when analyzing file systems with cyclic cross-links. Fixed.
- R- Undelete didn’t warn its user that is was going to overwrite an existing scan info or image file. Fixed.
- The Hexadecimal viewer might freeze after an I/O error. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugfixes.
v4.7 [Aug 17, 2013]
- The shortcut menu in Windows explorer didn't work. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might crash when re-enumerating files on large partitions. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might add an incorrect file extensions to the file name when the image type was switched to "Byte to byte image". Fixed.
- R-Undelete always showed empty folders regardless of whether Show empty folders was enabled/disabled on the File Mask dialog box. Fixed.
- Read-only folders might be shown when selecting places to save files. Fixed.
- R-Undelete showed folders even when Look at: Folders was disabled. Fixed.
v4.6 [Mar 24, 2013]
- New features:
- Support for ReFS (Resilient File System), a new local file system Microsoft introduced in its Windows 2012 Server.
- Support for Windows 2012 Server OS.
- Bugfixes:
- File Previewer didn’t show non-Latin characters in file names. Fixed.
v3.5 [Mar 1, 2008]
New wizards were added, kernel improvements, bugs fixing.