Softtote Data Recovery for Mac
Developer Website: http://www.softtote.com/data-recovery-for-mac.html
- 2020
Overall Product Rating: 3.6
A program with a good wizard interface, good set of file recovery features, and the fourth score for file recovery performance. It was able to recover files from Apple RAID0. Its weak points are the lack of direct access to SIP-protected disks, no disk imaging, and no S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
It crashed when recovering deleted files from a FAT32 memory stick.
Interface and Features
Support for the SIP system protection : 4.0Compare
The program informs the user that the files on the system disk can be accessed only when SIP is disabled and provides instructions on how to do so.
File recovery using file signatures (raw file recovery): 5.5Compare
Supports raw file recovery with a pre-defined file signature set. Individual files can be located through a built-in search, which can be selected in the program preferences.
File search, mark for recovery, sorting: 4.0Compare
Search parameters: individual file search/mark for recovery, file mask search/manual mark for recovery. Images and pdf files can be shown as tiles.
User interface: 4.5Compare
A good wizard interface that guides the user through the file recovery process but gives the user some control over it.
File recovery performance
Apple Encrypted Volume: 0.0Compare
The program could not automatically recognize the Apple Encrypted Volume.
Mac APFS Fusion Drive: 1.0Compare
The Mac APFS Fusion drive was immediately found as disk6, but the program could not find anything on it..
Apple RAID0: 6.0Compare
The Apple RAID0 was immediately reconstructed. All folders and files were found and successfully recovered.
Emptied Trash (APFS file system): 2.5Compare
After Disk Scan: Only some raw files were found. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Emptied Trash (FAT32 file system): 1.5Compare
The program found some parts of the original folder structure after a long scan (20 min). The program constantly crashed when attempting to open the found folders and could not recover anything.
Emptied Trash (exFAT file system): 4.5Compare
The program was able to find all files, but only as raw ones. All of them were successfully recovered.
Emptied Trash (HFS+ file system): 4.0Compare
After Quick Scan: The program was able to find about 2/3 of deleted files as raw ones. All of them were successfully recovered.
Disk erased (formatted) from FAT32 to FAT32 (memory stick): 2.5Compare
After Quick Search: Only raw files were found.
After Deep Search: Only raw files were found. Approximately half of them could be successfully recovered.
Disk erased (formatted) from APFS to HFS+ (external USB HDD): 3.5Compare
After Disk Scan: Nothing was found.
After Disk Scan: Only raw files were found. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 1 doc, 5 docx, 5 xlsx, 5 odt, 5 ods.
Disk erased (formatted) from APFS to APFS (external USB HDD): 3.0Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery, Quick Search and Completely Search: Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only few files were found as raw files, that is, without their names and folder structure. These files were successfully recovered.
Disk erased (formatted) from HFS+ to HFS+ (external HDD): 4.0Compare
After Simple scan: Nothing was found.
**After Lost Partition Recovery:**Only raw files were found. Most of them were successfully recovered.
After All recovery methods: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 5 pdf, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Disk erased (formatted) from HFS+ to APFS (external HDD): 3.5Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery, Quick Search: Nothing was found.
After Detailed Scan: Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only raw files (Reconstructed Files) were found, All of found files were successfully recovered.
Files that were not recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Disk erased (formatted) from HFS+ to exFAT (external HDD): 3.5Compare
**Lost Partition Recovery: **
Quick Search: Only some raw files were found, that is, without the original folder structure or names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Extensive search: The same results were obtained.
Files that were not recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 4 odt, 1 ods.
Disk erased (formatted) from exFAT to exFAT (external USB HDD): 3.0Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery, Quick Search: Only raw files were found without the original folder structure or names. Most of them were successfully recovered.
After Complete Search: The same results were obtained.
Files that were not recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Disk erased (formatted) from exFAT to HFS+ (external USB HDD): 3.0Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives (Formatted/Reformatted Recovery): Nothing was found.
Lost partition recovery (Quick search): Only the new HFS partition was found.
After Complete Search: Only raw files were found without the original folder structure or names. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Files that were not recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 avi, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Disk erased (formatted) from exFAT to APFS (external USB HDD): 3.0Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery (Quick Search): Nothing was found.
After Complete Search: Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only raw files were found, that is, without the original folder structure or names. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Files that were not recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 avi, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Damaged partition (exFAT): 3.5Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery (Quick Search): Nothing was found.
After Complete Search: Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only raw file were found. They were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Damaged partition (FAT32): 4.0Compare
After Quick Search: Nothing was found.
After Complete Search: Nothing was found.
After Lost File recovery: Only some raw files were found. Some of them could be recovered successfully
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Damaged partition (APFS): 4.0Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery (Quick Search): Nothing was found.
After Extensive Search: Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only raw files were found. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 jpg, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 4 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Damaged partition (HFS+): 4.0Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery (Quick Search): Nothing was found.
After Lost Partition Recovery (Complete Search): Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only raw files were found. They were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Deleted partition (APFS): 3.5Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery (Quick Search): Nothing was found.
After Complete Search: Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only raw files were found. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 5 mp4, 1 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt 1 ods
Deleted partition (HFS+): 4.5Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery (Quick Search): Nothing was found.
After Complete Search: Nothing was found.
After File Recovery: Only raw files were found. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 png, 1 mkv, 5 mp4, 1 mts, 1 doc, 1 odt 1 ods
Deleted partition (exFAT): 3.5Compare
After Lost Partition Recovery (Quick search): The previous exFAT partition was immediately found.
After Partition Scan: Only raw files were found. Most of them were successfully recovered.
After Lost Partition Recovery (Complete search): The previous exFAT partition was found.
After Partition Scan: The same results were obtained.
Files that could not be recovered: 41 jpg, 6 jpg, 1 mkv, 1 m4v, 4 mts, 4 doc, 1 odt, 1 ods.
Deleted partition (FAT32): 5.5Compare
After a disk scan: The program found the previous FAT32 partition with the entire folder and file structure on their original places with correct names. All files and folders were successfully recovered.
