I work with large TB drives and want to be able to save the scan which may take 9 hours to run so I can do the importing of saved files in batches. I know I can save a text file list and that I can pause the scan before it completes and pick it back up but is there any way to pull it up once it has completed? Most other programs have that capacity.
The problem is that a scan shows what us on the drive now.
If you could save it to use later then it may not represent what is on the drive later.
Anything could have happened to that drive between when it was scanned and later; so Recuva will only work on a current scan and not a ‘saved earlier’ one.
Technically that’s true, but if you are trying to recover a crashed drive, you aren’t going to be doing any ‘work’ with that drive that is going to change it’s structure until everything is recovered. In large drives like the 4tb ones I’m working with your looking at possibly over a half a million files. If your just recovering a folder of a couple dozen files, you don’t need to save the scan since it’s 30 minutes to recover. It’s the reason other recovery software has that feature.
You or I know not to, but you might be surprised just how many non-techie people would use a drive thinking they could recover the saved scan later.
You also have to bear in mind that Recuva is almost 20 years old software (and hasn’t had a functional update for several years) and was aimed at home users - back then TB sized drives were very expensive and hardly ever seen in peoples homes.
TBH if I had to look at recovery from a multi-TB sized drive I would be looking to more modern recovery software.
(My own stuff is backed-up anyway, but just occasionally a friend/acquaintance needs help).