This is a Fail

My situation couldnt have been simpler and more aligned with the claims of this tool. I deleted an .mov on a sd card while on the camera. I Immediately realized my mistake. I took the sd card out of the camera without adding or deleting any files. I even knew the original file name. I ran Guru it found several files but named them with new names. The file sizes looked like the file I was looking for. They then extorted my $59.99…a price I would gladly pay for success. But it was a fail. Not one .mov file was an actual video. Each file that Guru saved to the recovery folder were black or random color blocks with no intelligible sound. So not only do I not have files but I do not have any notion as to whether or not the files it claimed to recover are the one I was looking for.

This is a frustrating example of bait-and-switch. It is also a frustrating example of advertising false capabilities. The first could be cured by watermarking successfully recovered photos or giving a 5 second preview or stuttered preview of a successfully recovered video. The second is incurable.

Obviously the only way to avoid this problem is to not be an idiot and delete things you want to keep. But who of us likes to feel the frustration of losing a really great memory and then being stiffed out of a ransom fee.

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