mkss55442 - 02 January 2009 05:23 PM

Hi Anton,
I was able to install the uncompressed WM6 CAB on my x51v. I registered with the code you sent. Every time I try to run either ScanDisk or Undelete, I get a pop-up that the evaluation period has ended. When I close that window, I’m taken to the registration page which shows the program as registered.
Mark

Fixed, new cabs are on the server. The application had to be restarted after registration in order to get rid of the evaluation reminder messages. Should be ok now.

cscoot03 - 02 January 2009 07:00 PM

I am about to hard reset my Treo 800w put in an empty card & then download this program.  Yes I have a Mogul but I’m going to use the 800w 1st. Question: will this work on my 6.1 800w & 6.1 Mogul since this is a 6.0 program? Thank You.

It will work on both devices - the WM6 build is for WM6 and WM6.1 devices.

So ... any feedback yet?

What do you like and what you don’t like, what works and what doesn’t, what would you like to see more in this application?

Come on, we need your opinion to bring back a great product!

Update - new .CAB files uploaded to the server.

v1.02 should fix the issue with 8GB SDHC cards not being recognized on some devices.

Looking forward to your feedback!

Anton

Hi Anton,
Thanks for the instructions to restart the application. As a reminder I have an x51v running WM6.1. Both ScanDisk and Undelete modules are fast. The graphics look great.

I’ve run scandisk on both my 16GB SD and 4GB CF cards. Errors were found that I fixed on my CF card. I’m a little hesitant to do anything to the SD card before I back it up. After fixing the scandisk errors on the CF card, a rescan showed no remaining errors. One thing I like to see is a click & hold option to fix an error if you don’t choose to automatically fix errors.

I next ran the Undelete module on my CF card. I picked one file and one folder to recover. Both were recovered. I was able to re-delete the file but the folder name starts with a square and ends with ~1. I am unable to delete the folder because of the name. I’ve tried to delete it thru ActiveSync and with VirtualExplorer and Resco Explorer. None are able to delete it. I’m concerned that it may take a reformat to get rid of the folder. One other thing I noticed is all of the “recoverable” folders are 0 bytes, which sort of makes sense but if there’s stuff in them wouldn’t the size indicate the contents? One needed improvement is to rename recovered folders so they are re-deletable.

As I’m typing I got notified that version 1.02 is available. Haven’t tried that yet. Hope you have a solution to deleting the goofy folder on my CF card

Thanks,
Mark

mkss55442 - 03 January 2009 04:49 PM

Hi Anton,
Thanks for the instructions to restart the application. As a reminder I have an x51v running WM6.1. Both ScanDisk and Undelete modules are fast. The graphics look great.

I’ve run scandisk on both my 16GB SD and 4GB CF cards. Errors were found that I fixed on my CF card. I’m a little hesitant to do anything to the SD card before I back it up. After fixing the scandisk errors on the CF card, a rescan showed no remaining errors. One thing I like to see is a click & hold option to fix an error if you don’t choose to automatically fix errors.

I next ran the Undelete module on my CF card. I picked one file and one folder to recover. Both were recovered. I was able to re-delete the file but the folder name starts with a square and ends with ~1. I am unable to delete the folder because of the name. I’ve tried to delete it thru ActiveSync and with VirtualExplorer and Resco Explorer. None are able to delete it. I’m concerned that it may take a reformat to get rid of the folder. One other thing I noticed is all of the “recoverable” folders are 0 bytes, which sort of makes sense but if there’s stuff in them wouldn’t the size indicate the contents? One needed improvement is to rename recovered folders so they are re-deletable.

As I’m typing I got notified that version 1.02 is available. Haven’t tried that yet. Hope you have a solution to deleting the goofy folder on my CF card

Thanks,
Mark

Hi Mark,
Thanks for your report!

Was the folder that you deleted containing any non-standard characters? I will send you a debug build to verify that, I am guessing the character got somehow not converted properly. Folders are always marked as zero-byte files in directory entries, that’s perfectly fine. I cannot send a debug build right now, will do that in the next 12 hours. The invalid folder name can be saved I just need the log file from the debug build before that.

Anton

Hi Anton,
To be honest, I don’t remember what the folder name was. The current name is (square) CCOUN~1. Looking at a recent backup and a year old backup, I don’t see any folders with (A)CCOUN(T) on the card. It’s possible it was corrupted before I un-deleted it. The file I recovered was an old SKTools CAB. It’s recovered name was _KTOOL~2.cab. I was able to delete the file.

Even stranger now…I can’t see the contents of my CF card using ActiveSync. Shows up fine on the x51v.

Mark

mkss55442 - 03 January 2009 05:27 PM

Hi Anton,
To be honest, I don’t remember what the folder name was. The current name is (square) CCOUN~1. Looking at a recent backup and a year old backup, I don’t see any folders with (A)CCOUN(T) on the card. It’s possible it was corrupted before I un-deleted it. The file I recovered was an old SKTools CAB. It’s recovered name was _KTOOL~2.cab. I was able to delete the file.

Even stranger now…I can’t see the contents of my CF card using ActiveSync. Shows up fine on the x51v.

Mark

The files your recovered could already be corrupted especially if they were deleted a long time ago. Normally Undelete will recover the first letter of a file name (it is lost when a file is deleted). In your case the name of the .CAB was not recovered which means the long directory entries for that file were not found. And that is a sign another file was saved over the contents of the previously deleted one.

If the card is not visible trough ActiveSync there may be issues with the file system. But if that is the case the files shouldn’t be seen on the device as well. Do you remember what were the errors ScanDisk reported during the first scan?

Anyway, the bogus character Undelete inserted in the folder name is an issue, this shouldn’t have happened. I will upload a new build that checks if the character is valid before updating the directory entry.

By the way ActiveSync probably refuses to show the files because of the bogus file name. I have noticed that often the WinCE FAT file system panics if any errors are present and simply does not show the files.

Hi Anton,
Sorry but I don’t remember. There were quite a few, but they were fixed by the Scandisk module. I’ll have to pay more attention to them before I allow fixes or undeletes. I was able to use a card reader to make a backup of the card and am going to format the card to clear out the bad folder name.
Mark

Of the nearly 100 people who subscribed for the beta testing less than 5 posted any feedback.

Anton,

When I use the new scandisk feature on my 8Gb microdeive and 8Gb Sandisk SDHC microsd
card I get Broken directory entry errors which the latest Pocket Mechanic Professional
does not report with its own scandisk feature.

Gerald

I placed 55 .jpg images (15MB) on a Sandisk Extreme III SDHC 4GB card.  Then deleted them using Resco Explorer.  I then used the undeleted module to recover all 55 images without difficulty. 

I would however like the ability to choose where the files are restored to, e.g.  internal memory or a secondary storage card CF Card.

Now I am going to see how well the undelete module recovers files that have been wiped.  To do this I will use a portable (can be used with Portableapps) version of Eraser made by these folks http://www.heidi.ie/node/6 set to wipe once (1x) using pseudorandom data.  Turns to google….....

I’m still using the same 15MB of 55 jpg’s. 

Well after using Eraser set to wipe once using pseudorandom data, the Undelete module was able was able to recognize the presence of 55 files but they are recovered as 0B files with seemingly random 3digit file extensions only one has the correct file extension but it is also 0B in size.

Gerald Lankamp - 04 January 2009 11:21 AM

Anton,

When I use the new scandisk feature on my 8Gb microdeive and 8Gb Sandisk SDHC microsd
card I get Broken directory entry errors which the latest Pocket Mechanic Professional
does not report with its own scandisk feature.

Gerald

Hey Gerald,
Well this is expected, as WDRM ScanDisk is a new and updated ScanDisk. In other words ScanDisk from Pocket Mechanic is v1 while ScanDisk from WDRM is v2. There are many improvements and features that are (still) not available in Pocket Mechanic. For instance Pocket Mechanic is not able to fix FAT mismatch errors, does not detect directory entry issues (and that’s one of the most common cause of lost files on storage cards), does not detect directory relation issues (another serious problem if running the WinCE built-in defragmenter which is full of bugs and is still used by a number of applications claiming to be able to defragment storage cards).

ScanDisk v2 will become an integral part of the upcoming Pocket Mechanic v3.

Jamal Harris - 04 January 2009 11:28 AM

I placed 55 .jpg images (15MB) on a Sandisk Extreme III SDHC 4GB card.  Then deleted them using Resco Explorer.  I then used the undeleted module to recover all 55 images without difficulty. 

I would however like the ability to choose where the files are restored to, e.g.  internal memory or a secondary storage card CF Card.

My next test will be to see how well the undelete module recovers files that have been wiped!

Sorry nobody can recover wiped files even Wizcode Data Recovery Mobile As for your suggestion on recovering files to another card/main memory - this can be done. It is in fact much harder to recover the files on the same card. We will bring this feature shortly.

Thanks!

Anton