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.
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Can you also make launchers for CCleaner and Defraggler?
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)
Thank you.
If you want me too I can email you the launcher's I made for them.
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I would appreciate an mail of the launchers. Use keizer_or [@] usa [.] com. THanks.
[email address obfuscated by mod tim]
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
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.
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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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)
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
what is it for?
that is all I found
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I like it.
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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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.
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)
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 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.
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
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)
if he will host for you
or i can use mediafire to host for you as well
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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)
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)
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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Isn't it supposed to be paf.exe? If EXE's are not supported, try Mediafire
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about the icon try this one
http://www.mediafire.com/?ddlt1mtdfpo
Change the readme to say recuvaportable rather than sumtrapdfportable,
right here
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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)
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)
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
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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)
change the google thing to the download area, also see if you can launch FFP and go to that site
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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)
cause u need it to run this function
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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)
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)
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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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)
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 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)
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' Abortand make the ok messagebox a Yes or No
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kinda makes you look lazy
Insert original signature here with Greasemonkey Script.
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)
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 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.)
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' AbortPlease search before posting. ~Thanks
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)
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 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 me.
"App\rcsetup113" should be changed though.
Works just fine for me - and I didn't change "App\rcsetup113"...
WinXP SP2.
I didn't mean change it to get it to work, it was a suggestion for the launcher developer.
Oh OK - my bad.
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)
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
aka
mapmd1234
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)
Can you please update...
It works great.