[G4E]

Before buying an expensive software for data recovery, don't forget about Photorec[0] and its dangerously powerful brother TestDisk[1].

It will be able to help you more often than not, and it's FOSS.

[0] https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

[1] https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[pavel_lishin]

I don't think $79 is particularly expensive to recover half a terabyte of valuable photos, but thank you for the recommendation!

[sigg3]

It's expensive if you ain't got it.

I used testdisk as a student living on loans :)

[iluvcommunism]

I tried using test disk but I had an obscure situation. I was recovering from a failed REFS pool.

[smoldesu]

It's considerably more expensive than $0, and just because $79 doesn't seem like a big issue in the heat of passion doesn't mean that you won't kick yourself for it later.

[squarefoot]

+1 for TestDisk. That gem literally saved my butt years ago when a controller failure on my old NAS almost destroyed all my data by turning all disks (Linux soft RAID1) into unreadable doorstoppers. And it wasn't like just a damaged partition table or anything like that; each file had to be recovered and copied elsewhere.

[webmobdev]

Let me also chime in with a free and open source decent alternative to LightRoom - https://www.darktable.org/ ...