I just ran a scan, Recuva found files to recover but I don’t see how large they are in total, so I don’t know what size of hard drive to prepare to restore the files onto.
I can see the individual file sizes but the amount of files to recover is so vast that it’d be impossible to count all of these by hand. Is there no way to easily see that number?
At first, I thought it’s the number at the bottom-left of the screen, after “NTFS”. But I figured that’s the drive size.
I would ask why there are so many files found, and if you are doing the best recovery options for your needs.
Firstly why are you attempting a recovery?
Files deleted by mistake, drive crashed, drive refirmatted, something else?
Are you using the Recovery Wizard or the Advanced options?
There are so many files found because I used the deep scan. I used the deep scan because the regular scan didn’t display the files I hoped would be displayed. On top of that, the files I was looking for were backup files in the root directory of my drive. Thus, I couldn’t narrow down the search to decrease the amount of files shown.
I’m attempting a recovery because I accidentally deleted two backup files of which both may contain Chrome Extension data that was saved locally instead of in the cloud and I want that data.
Isn’t Recovery Wizard software by EaseUS? I’m using Recuva and I clicked on advanced options after my drive was scanned for recoverable files.
‘Wizzard’ is a term used by many kinds of software for the quick/easy option to run it.
PS. You can just click ‘Cancel’ there to go straight to the Advanced options.
(Or use that tickbox bottom-right if you never want it to show the Wizard again).
One issue with scanning a backup drive is that it will often find all previously deleted backups.
Which means there will be multiple copies of each file found.
Which then means that Recuva often decides that to be able to recover them all it will need more space than is actually on the drive being recovered from.
If you know what particular files you are looking for then you could try cutting down the search to a particular filetype, or even a filename:
https://support.ccleaner.com/s/article/using-recuva-s-advanced-mode?language=en_US
Once you have decided which files in the scan results you want to recover the you tick the box next to it; it’s at that stage that Recuva will tell you how much space is needed on the drive that you are recovering too to take the files that you have selected to recover.
Thanks for your explanation on Wizards.
I’m trying to recover files of an extension that allows me to make notes notes and mark text on websites. I’m not sure what filetype the relevant files containing my notes and marked texts have. Maybe documents?
I don’t see Recuva telling me how much space the files I checked for restoration will take up on the page on which the checking happens. Can you show me a screenshot of where that’s displayed? I see how much space individual files take up, but not how much all of the checked ones together take up.