We Recover More Deleted Photos Than Anyone!

How Do We Recover More Photos?

Simple Answer:

We recover more photos because we use SmartCarving™ to recover fragmented photos that other programs can not. On average 10-20% of your photos are fragmented and we are the only photo recovery software that can recover them. You can read more about our research below.

Slightly Less Simple Answer:

You may have tried other photo recovery software that promise to recover deleted photos. Many will work if your memory card or hard drive is not fragmented. This is because most software products work by finding images in a sequential format.

Lets take an example, if your drive or memory card has no fragmentation it will in the abstract look like the picture below. Here a file is made up of a sequence of blocks with the same color.

Visualization of disk with no fragmentation.

All other recovery products recover your photos by looking for the start and end blocks and merging everything in between. Adroit recovers photos by looking at the color of each block and ensuring it matches the previous block. In the drive below, the results are the same

Recovery of photos from disk with no fragmentation.

Unfortunately, in the real world all files are not stored in an orderly sequential fashion, some are fragmented. A file is fragmented when it is not stored on consecutive blocks on disk. On average 10-20% of your photos are fragmented. However, if you are using your camera/disk/card a lot, and delete and save a lot, fragmentation rates can be much much higher.

So lets take an example of disk that has some fragmentation. Here you can see that two of the files have fragmentation, and the last file is incomplete.

Visualization of disk with fragmentation.

So lets now see how recovery is done, by other photo recovery software and Adroit. Again other software recover by identifying starting and ending points of a photo and merging everything in between. Unfortunately, that strategy is terrible when you have fragmented files. The image below on the represents what happens to the photos with other photo recovery programs. Every single of the fragmented photos (green, purple, teal and grey) were recovered incorrectly. Adroit Photo Recovery looks block by block at the colors and is able to identify when fragmentation occurs and is able to recover fragmented photos by looking for the next best block with similar colors. So we are able to recover the fragmented files, and in the case of the photo represented by the grey color, we are able to identify that it has no ending and we stop at the correct point.

Other Photo Recovery.	Adroit Photo Recovery.

Rocket-Science Answer:

Well if we have whetted your appetite for more information, why don't you head on over to our photo recovery technology section and read all about our award-winning SmartCarving™ research. You can read each of our scientific papers on photo recovery there as well!

Visual Answer:

Well nothing really describes our photo recovery techniques like actual photos!