Data Rescue 3 External Drive Recovery at Mac App Store analyse

I was advised by a computer technician at the Apple store to buy this program to recover my lost documents from Pages. However, this program does not work for recovery of Pages documents. Unfortunately, the research I did on my own and with my brothers help related that Pages documents information are saved in multiple disparate files, so there is not a single recovery program available currently that has any reported success knowing they are linked to recover the document.

Error codes everyitme I try to scan a SD Card. I could have purchased a ton of phone apps instead of this useless recovery tool.

I read the recent reviews of this product and was turned off because it didnt seem to be working for many people. I looked into other products and it seems that they all have issues with Mountain Lion… So I called up Prosoft (they were the only ones based in the United States, so I could speak to a support person on the phone). It turns out their Mac App Store version (and other competing products) wont run under Mountain Lion due to App Store rules/changes.. It works fine under Lion and their full version works fine under any OS.. So Im guessing thats the big misunderstanding. If youre running Mountain Lion, just get the full version- Support was very helpful which is a godsend in a crisis-

I used this very successfully on my previous laptop (MBA 11 i7) but on my new MBP 15 Retina, it will not recognize any of my 5 external hard drives. The same drives were recognized on my MBA. When it works, its great but it seems to depend on what type of Mac you have.

just purchased. doesnt work. want a refund.

After much investigation, it turns out no apps here on the app store will work with Mountain Lion (something changed in Mountain Lion and these apps are not allowed to have the needed code to work under Mountain Lion). So if you have Mountain Lion, go to the compant website of the product directly (the full versions are not bound by App Store rules and therefore dont have any issues). Prosoft is based in California (not China like most of these others) and that makes dealing with support a million times better-

I purchased this item for 59.99, in hopes of recovering an external hard drive I had deleted files on. The drive itself was recognized by Disk Utility and appeared alongside my regular hard drive. I was excited because I had used Data Rescue 2 previously. Unfortunately, this version of the software did not read my drive, no matter what I did. I could save files to the drive, I could browse it, I could do everything through OSX, but Data Rescue basically said, "Nope, its not there!" over and over. The Help Section was completely unhelpful - it suggested rescanning and the drive never showed up. How is it I can save files to the drive through OSX, see it on my desktop, but Data Rescue refuses to see it? COMPLETE RIP-OFF.