Please look at the screenshot: Recuva reports, that a file is 'unrecoverable', because it is overwritten by another file. But this is not true.
What I did:
- I saved a file as e:\Inst\rcsetup150.exe
- then I moved this file to e:\Inst\_SystemTools\Recuva\rcsetup150.exe
- then I deleted this file to the recycle bin
- then I deleted this file within the recycle bin
- immediately after this I started Recuva
So Recuva reports a wrong state ('unrecoverable'), although the file should be recoverable.
The reason is, that Recuva does not check, that a file has been moved, before it was deleted. But this can happen often.
This seems to me a bad error, because a file is reported to be lost, although it is recoverable.
Only if the user:
- remembers, that he had moved the deleted file (this could be long ago) and
- realizes, that the mentioned file in column 'Comment' was the source of the move and
- searches this file (e:\Inst\rcsetup150.exe) in the list
then he will see, that this file is reported to be recoverable. But this disadvantages should not be necessary.