Deep Scan and Skyrim Save Files

[Question002]

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.

[Nergal]

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.

 

[Question002]

I read it here: http://www.piriform.com/docs/recuva/using-recuva/wizard-mode/the-deep-scan-option

 

I must have misunderstood the information.  I'll let the scan finish.  Thanks for the quick reply.

[Nergal]

You may not have misunderstood, I've asked the developers to clarify, hopefully they will.

[Question002]

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?

[Question002]

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.

[Augeas]

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.

 

How long can a pc stay on? I dunno, five years?

[mta]

Another question: For how long can a PC stay on before it becomes dangerous to it's health?

 

I'll put forward it's measured in days.

Even mission-critical servers usually have a weekly or monthly maintenance schedule where they get rebooted.

I'm yet to see a constantly left-on PC that doesn't suffer accumulative memory leakage issues.

Weird stuff just seems to occur and upon a reboot, all is right again with the world.