Version history TestDisk & PhotoRec for Mac OS X

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Changes from v6.9 -> v6.10

• General Improvements
• Report disk manufacturer and model under Windows and Linux (Only Linux was supported in 6.9)
• Under Linux, /dev/mapper/* and /dev/md? are now listed with the harddisks.
• Now both OS and compiler versions are recorded in the log file.
• Testdisk is now shipped with plugins for both BartPE and WinBuilder
• TestDisk
• undelete files and directories for FAT filesystem,
• undelete files for ext2 filesystem,
• copy files from ext2/ext3 partitions. These feature was already available for FAT and NTFS.
• PhotoRec
• New file formats are supported:
• adr Opera Hotlist
• als Ableton Live Sets
• amb Licom AlphaCAM
• amd/amt/atd/att AlphaCAM
• amr Adaptive Multi-Rate
• arj Archive
• arw Sony raw image,
• asm Pro/ENGINEER Assembly
• chm MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
• dc TSCe Survey Controller DC v10.0
• deb Debian Archive
• drw Pro/ENGINEER Drawing
• ds2 Digital Speech Standard v2
• fcs Flow Cytometry Standard 3.0
• f Fortran
• fits NASA Flexible Image Transport System
• frm Pro/ENGINEER Drawing Form
• gho Ghost
• gpg Partial support for GPG/OpenPGP file recovery
• ics vcalendar
• ifo DVD Video manager or title set
• iso cd/dvd iso image (ISO0660)
• kmy KMyMoney
• m2ts Blu-ray MPEG-2
• mcd VectorWorks
• mfg Pro/ENGINEER Manufacturing
• msf Mozilla "mork database"
• pfx files holding PKCS#12 keys
• prt Pro/ENGINEER Model
• psp Paint Shop Pro Image File
• SQLite databases
• stl Stereolithography CAD
• stp Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
• tph Pro/ENGINEER ToolPath
• veg Sony Vegas
• wdb Microsoft Works Database
• wks Lotus 1-2-3
• Load and save FileOpts settings: remember which file types to recover
• For JPEG files, extract the time/date from Exif header and set the file time

Changes from v6.9 -> v6.10 WIP

• General Improvements
• Report disk manufacturer and model under Windows and Linux (Only Linux was supported in 6.9)
• Under Linux, /dev/mapper/* and /dev/md? are now listed with the harddisks.
• Now both OS and compiler versions are recorded in the log file.
• TestDisk
• undelete files and directories for FAT filesystem,
• undelete files and directories for ext2 filesystem,
• copy files from ext2/ext3 partitions. These feature was already available for FAT and NTFS.
• PhotoRec
• New file formats are supported:
• adr Opera Hotlist
• als Ableton Live Sets
• amb Licom AlphaCAM
• amd/amt/atd/att AlphaCAM
• amr Adaptive Multi-Rate
• arj Archive
• arw Sony raw image,
• asm Pro/ENGINEER Assembly
• chm MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
• dc TSCe Survey Controller DC v10.0
• deb Debian Archive
• drw Pro/ENGINEER Drawing
• ds2 Digital Speech Standard v2
• fcs Flow Cytometry Standard 3.0
• f Fortran
• fits NASA Flexible Image Transport System
• frm Pro/ENGINEER Drawing Form
• gho Ghost
• gpg Partial support for GPG/OpenPGP file recovery
• ics vcalendar
• ifo DVD Video manager or title set
• iso cd/dvd iso image (ISO0660)
• kmy KMyMoney
• m2ts Blu-ray MPEG-2
• mcd VectorWorks
• mfg Pro/ENGINEER Manufacturing
• msf Mozilla "mork database"
• pfx files holding PKCS#12 keys
• prt Pro/ENGINEER Model
• psp Paint Shop Pro Image File
• SQLite databases
• stl Stereolithography CAD
• stp Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
• tph Pro/ENGINEER ToolPath
• veg Sony Vegas
• wdb Microsoft Works Database
• wks Lotus 1-2-3
• Load and save FileOpts settings: remember which file types to recover
• For JPEG files, extract the time/date from Exif header and set the file time

Changes from v6.8 -> v6.9

• TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.9 comes with numerous improvements
• EFI GUID Partition Table is now supported. EFI GPT is used mainly on Itanium, MacBook and Mac Pro
• Both utilities can use sudo if the user is not root, this functionnality will be enable for MacOSX at least so users won't have to go in command line. Under Linux, disk model is now displayed to help identify the media
• Internal card readers are now better supported under Windows
• TestDisk
• New filesystem support have been added: encrypted LUKS, Mac HFSX, Linux raid md 1.0/1.1/1.2 (0.9 was already supported)
• UFS, UFS2 filesystem are better identified now
• TestDisk 6.9 handles Mac partition table partially overwritten by an Intel partition
• It display unicode filenames correctly and can handle unicode filesname when copying files from an NTFS partition when supported by the underlying libraries. TestDisk warns if the media is in read-only instead of read-write access
• It's now possible to copy files from a delete FAT partition found by TestDisk (already possible for NTFS) without having to rewrite the partition table. In the advanced functionality, raw partition imaging capability have been added
• PhotoRec
• PhotoRec 6.9 can search for lost files in ext2/ext3 unallocated space only (Was available for FAT and NTFS)
• It has a better session support that allow a recovery to be strop and restart later. Windows forensics has been improved with the addition of Windows Enhanced MetaFile .emf (Printing), MS Windows Link .lnk, Internet Explorer index.dat (navigation history.
• New file formats are supported: Acronis True Image .tib, AutoCAD .dwg and PowerTab .ptb, Cineon image file/SMTPE DPX .dpx, Comic Life .comicdoc, HP Photosmart Photo Printing Album .albm, KeepAssX .kdb, Maya .mb and .mp, Microsoft OneNOte .one file, Micros
• It fixes Mac Adress Book and Outlook 64-bits .pst recovery and NTFS free space recovery

Changes from v6.7 -> v6.8

• General Improvements:
• Partition type is autodetected.
• TestDisk and PhotoRec can now be used under GNU screen, the screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. Typically, a screen can be shared by an end-user under Linux, Mac or another Unix and a remote data recovery specialist connected via SSH. It's also possible to disconnect while keeping a long recovery (ie PhotoRec) session running.
• Disk geometry under Mac has been corrected (Version 6.7 affected)
• TestDisk:
• HFS partition detection has been improved to avoid false positive
• Log potential NTFS partition location from MFT & MFTMirr location while rebuilding NTFS boot sector
• PhotoRec:
• Some important bugfixes (false positive problem, implementation bugs) have been made in PhotoRec 6.8.
• JPG bruteforce recovery has been improved a little bit, you can use it to recover more fragmented jpeg but it's very time consuming and not 100% reliable, so it's still disabled by default.
• .7z, .cab, .rar and .tar recovery have been improved.
• .dta and .spss file formats (statistical analysis file format) have been added.

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