Hey all, I'm using "Photorec" that's included in "TestDisk" (i.e. free software that searches for deleted photos on storage mediums) to scrape some drives for .jpgs that used to be in an old PC of mine. Here's my conundrum:
I initially scraped this drive for all .jpg files and it pulled about 11,000 files (this was a year ago). I'm now running the same program again, and searching for .jpg and it's only pulling about 3,000 files. I initially thought that maybe the data search was interrupted so I ran it again, and it pulled about the same amount. What's going on here? Is this software just not as robust as I thought? Should I try a paid software? Did the jpgs disappear from the sectors during the initial scrape and now, even though the drive has not been in use? Thanks.