Recuva Launcher Only *Updated* [5/31/09]

Submitted by Nathan9222 on March 30, 2008 - 3:45pm

Application: Recuva
Category: Utilities
Description: Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Download Recuva Portable
(MD5: 97c087a5eb6a45720a2af61a63144ddc)
Release Notes:This is a new release that now by default saves settings to recuva.ini, so please completely delete previous release and start off with this launcher.Please read (Release Notes)

Updated Launcher to new ahk one

Easy download and extraction of recuva zip through 7za.exe and prompt.

Development Test 1 (2009-05-31): Initial release

Please delete whole "RecuvaPortable" folder to avoid any problems with paths or any old settings. Or just rename "Recuva113" to just "recuva" in the App folder.

( categories:

Beta Testing

)

The other Piriform Products

keizer_or - March 30, 2008 - 4:46pm

Can you also make launchers for CCleaner and Defraggler?

Ill try defraggler

Nathan9222 - March 30, 2008 - 5:33pm

ill try defraggler becuase CCleaner is fully portable.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Defraggler

keizer_or - March 30, 2008 - 5:34pm

Thank you.

I have finished the three.

Jacob Mastel - March 31, 2008 - 2:18pm

If you want me too I can email you the launcher's I made for them.

Release Team Member
"If everyone is thinking the same thing, then someone isn't thinking" - General George S. Patton

Launchers

keizer_or - March 31, 2008 - 2:29pm

I would appreciate an mail of the launchers. Use keizer_or [@] usa [.] com. THanks.

[email address obfuscated by mod tim]

Sorry,

Jacob Mastel - March 31, 2008 - 6:20pm

I lost the files when my computer crashed a couple weeks ago. If you need any help on the launchers though feel free to email me. jacob m 001 at gmail . com

Release Team Member
"If everyone is thinking the same thing, then someone isn't thinking" - General George S. Patton

Two Things

Devo - March 31, 2008 - 9:19am

There are two things:

1) You should rename the registry backup to 'recuva.reg' instead of 'Registry.reg' because when you use the backup function of PAM it will become unclear what this registry entry is for.
2) You need to add 'SettingsDirectory=Data\settings' after 'RecuvaDirectory=App\rcsetup112' in order for the ini file to work correctly.

I just messed around with the launcher for a bit, but it looks like it works.

A couple of changes

powerjuce - March 31, 2008 - 10:31am

Have the launcher direct to the site if the program does not exist.

on the splash screen line there is no fade, so change the 200 to the 0

In the App\appinfo there is a thumbs.db file so delete that

The registry thing that has already mentioned

In the readme and in the code add your copyright under Johns

Change the website to http://PortableApps.com/Development/test

change the readme to be for recuva rather than sumtra pdf

that is all for now

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k

Nathan9222 - March 31, 2008 - 5:41pm

Ill try to fix these as soon as i can, ill try to post an update later today, or sometime tomorrow. Quick question, how do u make it download the file if it is not there? Ill look in the Nsis manual to try to figuire that out.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

good job

powerjuce - March 31, 2008 - 8:46pm

I will take a look again at the paf stuff and see if there is anything else

about directing them to where they have to download from check out this site

IE Plugin

Some more changes

In the Other\Source dir
- In your code
  - Add your line of copyright under johns (make it look like this)
```
;Copyright (C) 2004-2008 John T. Haller
;Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Nathan
```
  - Change the Website to http://PortableApps.com/Development/test
- In the readme
  - make the copyright look like this
```
;Copyright (C) 2004-2008 John T. Haller
;Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Nathan
```
- change your JPEG (RecuvaPortable.jpg) to be the actual DevTest splash screen found here
- There this line in the ini file
```
;Replace (Appname) with the name of your app, and (AppEXE) to the name of the executable of your app.
```
  what is it for?
In the App\ dir
- Add a readme file check any released app to see what needs to be in it
- Add the recuva dir so that people know where to put the program
In the main dir
- Add the help.html file, once again check any released app for the format of the html file
General stuff
- You need your icon to be: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 in both 256 and xp.
- Dont zip the installer. Just upload the installer

that is all I found

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Sub-Categorization

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - March 31, 2008 - 8:49pm

I like it.

did i get everything?

powerjuce - March 31, 2008 - 9:20pm

i hope i did

and does the idea of going to the download site if it does not exist work alright?

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Isn't Recuva already portable?

blackbox - March 31, 2008 - 5:49pm

Maybe I'm missing something, but all Piriform products are fully portable. Moreover, I've been running Recuva from my USB drive for a few months, and never noticed it touching any registry settings.

There is a setting in Options... > Advanced > Save all settings to INI file. When checked, it creates recuva.ini in the same folder as the exe file.

When started, the program checks whether recuva.ini is present and if yes the settings are then loaded from there instead of the registry. I know this because I have two copies of Recuva installed - on HDD and USB drive, each copy with separate settings. The former uses registry and the latter stores its settings in the INI file.

So basically your launcher is useless.

well..

Nathan9222 - March 31, 2008 - 6:00pm

I know about the .ini and all, but not only can you add my launcher to the PAM but it is easier for people who do not want to do that to just run it without changing anything. Plus since its in the PAM its easier to launch and keep track of applications.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Wow

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - March 31, 2008 - 6:08pm

So basically your launcher is useless.

That was nice, thanks for your input and making someone feel good today.

It would be useless if all

rozberk - March 31, 2008 - 6:10pm

It would be useless if all you're trying to do is get it to run from a USB drive. But I've always found that even stand-alone launchers add structure and ease-of-use to applications. While I tend to just use stand-alone apps by themselves like you described, any self-contained, do-everything-for-you launcher only makes an app more accessable. And I think they are great entry point for learning this stuff.

Could you be nicer?

Jacob Mastel - March 31, 2008 - 6:16pm

There is no need to be so rude. Also The launcher is not useless. If the .ini file is accidentally deleted or not copied or whatever the app will no longer be portable. The launcher can run make sure the .ini is present. Then if not create the .ini or if it is just start the app.

Release Team Member
"If everyone is thinking the same thing, then someone isn't thinking" - General George S. Patton

i think.....

Nathan9222 - March 31, 2008 - 9:52pm

I think i can do all that, but about not zipping it, esnips does not support paf files so it doesnt let me upload it. It will always say "File type not supported".

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

try askin patrick...

powerjuce - March 31, 2008 - 10:29pm

if he will host for you

or i can use mediafire to host for you as well

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K

Nathan9222 - March 31, 2008 - 10:52pm

What ever is easier for either u or patrick is fine for me. I should be having a development test 3 up soon. The only thing that is slowing me down is that whole "if app is not found make a redirect link to download it." I looked at that site and the examples but i think i need to do a bit of testing with that before i can upload. I pretty much did everything you said i needed to do.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Well

Nathan9222 - March 31, 2008 - 11:05pm

I included in the help.html file the file u need to download, so i might later put that whole redirect thing in a later development test, I dont want to do it yet cause i read on there that if its done wrong it can cause memory leaks so.. I might do some testing with it before i release it to the public.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

use mediafire...

powerjuce - April 1, 2008 - 11:29am

here it is

http://www.mediafire.com/

just create an account

unless you really dont want to just say so and I can use my account to keep hosting the file for you

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.Paf.Zip?

Stevoisiak - April 1, 2008 - 6:49am

Isn't it supposed to be paf.exe? If EXE's are not supported, try Mediafire

The guy who acts like he knows what he's talking about.

Good Job

powerjuce - April 1, 2008 - 11:57am

about the icon try this one
http://www.mediafire.com/?ddlt1mtdfpo

Change the readme to say recuvaportable rather than sumtrapdfportable,
right here

-\ <--- Directory with SumatraPDFPortable.exe

that is all i could find again.

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k

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 5:56pm

I made a mediafire account. Since a dev changed my topic name to recuva launcher, I am wondering if i can just make a .paf that says "recuva.paf
'instead of all that dev test stuff. Oh yeah thanks 4 the icon. I should be uploading a new one soon.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

There

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 6:01pm

New Test up... Hope everything got fixed.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

great job

powerjuce - April 1, 2008 - 6:09pm

you have been really good with these releases
if it was not for the "open-source" policy you would be ready to release

here is one more thing, you don't need to release a new test but on the next big release you need this file

In the Other\source dir you need a file called AppSource.txt
it should contain this

The source code for the base application in this package is available from the portable applications home page mentioned in the help.html file.

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k...

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 6:45pm

I guess i might try to add a bit to the launcher, that whole redirect thing. Do u know of any launchers that can do that??

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

here is the code i quickly made up

powerjuce - April 1, 2008 - 7:35pm

IEFunctions::OpenBrowser /NOUNLOAD
IEFunctions::SurfTo /NOUNLOAD "http://www.google.com"
IEFunctions::ReleaseBrowser

change the google thing to the download area, also see if you can launch FFP and go to that site

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hmm

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 9:07pm

I think there has to be a system call of some sort. It doesnt seem to work.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

do u hav the plugin?

powerjuce - April 1, 2008 - 9:13pm

cause u need it to run this function

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Wait

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 9:14pm

Nevermind I got it now. Ill try to do FFP if i can.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Ok...

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 9:27pm

I was wondering if u can even do firefox. I was looking through plugins and didnt see anything. Unless you just change it to FFFunctions or something. Plus i added a little message box that tells you to press ok to download Recuva. Ill put it up so u can tell me what you think.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

try this

powerjuce - April 1, 2008 - 9:36pm

Exec '"..\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe" www.google.com'

that will start firefoxportable (if it exists) and go to Google.

Just replace google with the address you want to go to

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Ok

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 9:37pm

let me take down my link to add it. So it doesnt go to a new test

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Weird i just tried..

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 9:44pm

it and i have firefoxportable, but it didnt open it also, it only opened IE, will it only open the one that is easiest to find?? I have firefox on my usb, i think it needs to be on the computer.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Test 5

Nathan9222 - April 1, 2008 - 9:54pm

Test 5 up. Tell me what you think about the IE thing.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

looks good...

powerjuce - April 2, 2008 - 7:23am

here is the code I used to get it to work with FFP

oProgramEXE:
		;=== Program executable not where expected
		StrCpy $MISSINGFILEORPATH $PROGRAMEXECUTABLE
		MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION `$(LauncherFileNotFound)`
        MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION `$(LauncherDownload)`		
Exec '"..\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe" http://www.recuva.com/download/builds/downloading-zip'

		Abort

and make the ok messagebox a Yes or No

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The appsource.txt

digitxp (Homepage) - April 1, 2008 - 6:59pm

kinda makes you look lazy

Insert original signature here with Greasemonkey Script.

k

Nathan9222 - April 2, 2008 - 10:43pm

how do u add a function to the "No" button so when you hit it, it wont open the browser? Cause i got the yes and no buttons but i cant figuire out how to make it not open.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

code

wraithdu - April 2, 2008 - 10:51pm

MessageBox MB_YESNO "Click yes or no." IDYES jump_if_yes IDNO jump_if_no

compile error

Nathan9222 - April 2, 2008 - 11:01pm

says this

Error: could not resolve label "jump_if_yes" in install section "Main" (0)
Error - aborting creation process

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

LOL Ok, you need to read the

wraithdu - April 2, 2008 - 11:10pm

LOL Ok, you need to read the NSIS help file on the MessageBox function. jump_if_yes and jump_if_no are placeholders, where you need to place your own labels (or relative jumps like +2 +5 etc.)

MessageBox MB_YESNO "Choose." IDYES myyeslabel IDNO mynolabel

or

MessageBox MB_YESNO "Choose." IDYES 0 IDNO +3

make it this...

powerjuce - April 3, 2008 - 6:49am

NoProgramEXE:
		;=== Program executable not where expected
		StrCpy $MISSINGFILEORPATH $PROGRAMEXECUTABLE
		MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION `$(LauncherFileNotFound)`
        MessageBox MB_YESNO `$(LauncherDownload)` IDYES 0 IDNO +2
Exec '"..\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe" http://www.recuva.com/download/builds/downloading-zip'

		Abort

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New release

Nathan9222 - April 21, 2008 - 9:35pm

Please use this launcher for the latest release, also make sure u are getting the portable build from their site. No need to manually go ther, just click on recuvaportable.exe and you will be directed there automatically. Please tell me if there are any problems so I can correct them.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

New Test 2

Nathan9222 - April 29, 2008 - 1:20pm

Read above for changes, now you should be able to use RecuvaPortable.ini to disable splash without any problems. Changed script a bit so it looks organized. Please test and tell me what you think.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

The launcher doesn't seem to

Drakkim - October 31, 2008 - 2:57pm

The launcher doesn't seem to work... Once I put the files in "App\rcsetup113" I can get the splash screen, the the launcher exits. No errors, no Recova.

I'm _guessing_ that something was coded specific to version 1.13 (since we're using rcsetup113 as the path) and the program is at 1.20... Not sure how you wold do that, but that's all I got

The program does run directly just fine, though.... but I'd like an item in my PA Menu (Which is also why I disagree with the "launcher is useless" remark way above

This doesn't happen with

scriptdaemon - November 26, 2008 - 4:46pm

This doesn't happen with me.

"App\rcsetup113" should be changed though.

Works just fine for me - and

getco - December 6, 2008 - 5:09pm

Works just fine for me - and I didn't change "App\rcsetup113"...

WinXP SP2.

I didn't mean change it to

scriptdaemon - December 6, 2008 - 10:25pm

I didn't mean change it to get it to work, it was a suggestion for the launcher developer.

Oh OK - my bad.

getco - December 7, 2008 - 10:09am

Oh OK - my bad.

Update of launcher, please

Nathan9222 - May 31, 2009 - 2:38pm

Update of launcher, please read above for changes. This launcher now integrates the same easy download prompt followed by automatic extraction of the zip folder as the CCleaner launcher. It also fixes the same bugs and adds in more functionality. As stated last time if there is an interest to automate compression of recuva through UPX let me know AFAIK no problems arise from doing so. Any comments, bug reports, or nice gestures are always appreciated. Enjoy!

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

admin needed still

mmd123 (Homepage) - July 25, 2009 - 10:48pm

i downloaded the updated launcher of the file and now when it is all extracted it prompts me for the admin access to run defraggler, and i thought the whole reason we make them portable is to be able to run them from a flash drive so that you could use it without being an admin and for me that is key, as i wont have that access when i use it, so please get that bug fixed as it is suposed to be running in a portable mode, aka, non admin mode...or am i mistaken??... anyways just FYI...

yes i am new, no im not a "noob" when it comes to being a geek, yes i understand the concept of the system of portable apps, i may be making this my first post here, but thats purely because i was too lazy to register, but now i need to to get this app working like i need it to...

windows vista basic / premium, using premium now...2 diff. computers being used

please and thank you...
MMD123

Well does this only happen

Nathan9222 - July 26, 2009 - 12:43pm

Well does this only happen when you are trying to run defraggler? Have you had this problem with any of my other portable piriform apps? With Portableapps it doesnt mean that it will allow you to run it as an admin, it just means that the applications settings will not be saved onto the computer but rather onto your flash drive in the "Data\settings" folder. Its also to keep things organized. If you do know the password to the admin account I believe I could put in the ability to do a RunAs. This would allow you to run this as admin while your using a limited account. But this might slow down startup time of the app. I also believe that to use defraggler you would need admin rights so it can gain access to all of your computers files and organize them properly. But I'm not 100% sure on that. Ill check the defraggler website and see if it mentions admin rights as a requirement.
Edit: Yup you do in fact need admin rights. Please see here...
http://docs.piriform.com/defraggler/troubleshooting-defraggler/problems-...

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

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