The main reason I'm using Recuva is to recover the Skyrim save files that I deleted, but I thought to myself that if I'm doing a scan I would take the opportunity to recover other files and pictures.
So I chose to run a deep scan thinking that it would be more thorough. It has been running for around 10 hours and in that time it's been stuck in 65% for like 7 hours.
Then I read the info about deep scans in the site and it says that it only reads certain types of files. I didn't see the Skyrim save file extension in the list which is: .ess
According to posts I've read in the forums, 1TB hdd's deep scans could take up to 48 hours, so my question is: Is the deep scan not going to recognize the game save files? I would like to know so I can stop the scan and run a regular one, instead of waiting that long to find out that it didn't find what I was looking for.
Where did you read that deep scans only read certain file types. My experience is that, unless you type a filter before scanning, recuva finds files of all file extensions (and non-extension files too) no matter if you do a regular or deep scan.
Yes deep scans take much longer and are likely to provide files with "excellent" as a condition but in truth are only currently not overwritten, they may have at other times been overwritten though.
Have you heard anything from the devs? The deep scan has been running for more than 48 hours now and I don't know if I should stop it and run a normal scan. It's still stuck at 65% but it has read 2 or 3 thousand more files (it's at 1,935,110 files now). Estimated time keeps going up and it's at 1 day now, probably still going up.
Another question: For how long can a PC stay on before it becomes dangerous to it's health?
The deep scan did read the save files, I didn't let it finish though. It read a whole lot of files that aren't mentioned in the tutorial, so I don't really understand what they mean.
A deep scan will run a normal scan first, which is possibly where all the unmentioned files came from. A normal scan will return any file type, with or without an extension, where a deep scan will - as far as I can tell - only return those file types mentioned in the link in post 3.