Project Summary
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License. PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again.
In a Nutshell, PhotoRec...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
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took an estimated 23 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2007
ending with its most recent commit 3 months ago
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it
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