Overwritten files not recovered

I am disappointed. I purchased the Recuva software hearing it would solve a problem with recovering lost files. But this did not happen. The list was shown but, was Unrecoverable. This is a problem I already knew and hoped to have solved. Then the comments showed that the file was overwritten. Why not recover the ~WRL file also. Is not the purpose of the product to recover files?

May I ask where you purchased the program from as Recuva is totally free to all.

Can be downloaded free from here

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/

and here

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/builds

The list was shown but, was Unrecoverable. This is a problem I already knew and hoped to have solved. Then the comments showed that the file was overwritten. Why not recover the ~WRL file also. Is not the purpose of the product to recover files?

I don't think the STATUS bar gives accurate info all the time. I do seem to recall an instance where the status bar said a file was fine... but I could not recover it. And today I just posted on deleted files that were said to be unrecoverable because they were overwritten... yet I easily recovered them. In this case the comment bar said they were overwritten by the same file.

So while comparing Recuva to products that are in the $60+ range, Recuva's ability to recover files is as good as I've seen. But I would not trust the status bar to be accurate 100% of the time. And all that being said... it very well could be that your file has been partially overwritten. You didn't really give any info on what sort of recovery you were performing... or what Recuva settings you used.