LulaMae,

What you recovered is probably the camera generated thumbnails (preview) images, and not the original images. Either that or the camera they were taken in was pretty old an low resolution.

Valeri,

I gotta ask... If you accidentally formatted your SD card, WHY would you then proceed to do it TWO MORE TIMES after that!? Even if you didn't realize that you needed the stuff that was on it, formatting a card 3 times makes no senses at all. The only logical conclusion here is that you are fabricating a story for the benefit of the software being given away today.

TK, Many thanks.

To Angus Stradamus see #18 for portable use, thanks to Mike.
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To Dj, see #18 for portable use, thanks to Mike.
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Jack Miles,
Unfortunately this 'forum' doesn't allow screenshots to be posted.
But as has been stated before, if you install the program, and when it has finished installation run the program.
In the header bar of the application, towards the top right-hand end of the header bar, there are a couple of icons, one of which looks like a key standing on its end. If you click on that then you'll get the Registration box come up when you can enter the key provided in the Readme file which accompanies the setup file when you've unzipped the file you will have downloaded from here.

Jack Miles, After you downloaded, then "extracted all", then ran setup and it installed.
You then opened the program, but at the very top, on the same line that says "TogetherShare Data Recovery 7.1, to the far right of that, you do not see a small orange shopping cart icon or orange key shaped icon??
If it isn't there, it may be possible either
A: the program did not install properly/corrupted download file in which case I suggest complete uninstall of both download file and program along with any residules then download and install again OR
B: you have had this program before and it is using same old licence number to register

Jack Miles, try..at the top, there's the minimize, maximize, & the exit X....to the left, the 3 horizontal lines that indicate a pulldown menu, maybe try clicking that?

In response to [ Jack Miles ], who wrote "... I read the readme file. it does not say where on the screen it is or what it looks like. How can I send you a screen shot of the splash. Is the key invisible, is it the same color as its background. Please don't tell me to read the readme text again ..."

I presume you want to enter the license registration 'Key' serial number into the trial program to cause it to become the professional version ...

... in the top right of the program window, there may be an icon that look like a physical 'Key',

... click that, and another mini windows should pop up and offer a place to paste the license registration 'Key' serial number.

Regardless, if the top program line says:
[ TogetherShare Data Recovery 7.1 Professional ]
then you are registered for life.

If instead it says
[ TogetherShare Data Recovery 7.1 Trial ]
then you have not registered yet.

Keep trying, try changing your computer display screen resolution and color depth if you cannot discern contrasting elements on screen ( then reset them afterwards ), and let us know how it works.

Good luck.

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For others as a reference, the readme.txt file says:

"... then press 'Key' icon to register the software using the registration info ..."

... and then below that in the readme.txt file is the license registration 'Key' serial number.
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To Jack Miles, see #18 for Mike's advice on removing prior license files and registry keys that may cause the key icon to think it does not need to be there.
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"Why not make programs like this truly "portable""

My guess is that it takes time, effort, and nowadays there's a risk that it won't always work to boot whatever device -- that last point is perhaps one reason Microsoft ended support for Windows To Go. To make a USB drive bootable most backup apps use WinPE, which means a fair sized download since Microsoft won't allow anyone else to distribute it. The backup app will then combine the downloaded WinPE with a special version of the app and copy it to the USB stick. Engineering that into your software takes time & effort. The developers could use Linux for that, but for whatever reason few do anymore. On our own we can create a WinPE USB stick -- it's not hard but requires a huge download -- and hope that the app will work with it, or use the free Rufus to create a Windows To Go drive [you'll want to use an SSD (starting at about $20) in an external housing (starting at about $5)] and installing TogetherShare Data Recovery Pro, or whatever software there.

"Make the default physical size of the installed program interface 're-sizable' rather than fixed. "

That takes more work & possibly more expensive, different programming tools.

mike,

Man, you are WAY off on what JohnUU and I consider portable. Neither of us are thinking bootable USB drive running WinPE or Linux, etc. with the app on it.

We are talking, plug the USB stick into your computer that is already running windows, and just run the software off the USB stick. Click and EXE file or something. All necessary files to run the software (including a license file) would be contained on the USB stick and not require installation onto the system you want to scan.

Jack Miles, A box will pop up if you don't already have a valid entry code & then you can enter it there - the new code is in the readme file...

Jack Miles, Read the "Read Me" file in the download. It works perfectly.

where is the icon key?

Jack Miles, Can you show me a screen shot of where it is. the link just brings me back here where I do not see the answer. show me on the screen where it is and what is looks like

Click on the key icon.

Jack Miles, At the Top right click the key (activate), paste the activation key that's in the readme file to the box that pops up, done.

In the top bar of the program, there should be a button that looks like a house key, click that.

As for the software itself.. looks a bit simplistic, but actually seems rather powerful under the hood.
Have tried other tools before it (O&O, Raise, File Scavenger, Recuva), this one seems to find as many if not more files, and has preview tool for many file formats.

Can't yet comment on the issue Susan pointed out, but I like it so far!

Jack Miles,
Click on the gold/orange key in the upper right

Jack Miles, open program....look at top gray bar....on the right side is a shape of a Key...click on it...enter code
when that window pops up....it take a few seconds to verify.

Susan, thanks, I'll put them in a black list.

Susan, Did you reload your operating system, or make any changes that might have affected the registry, including a new registry cleaner or tune-up program?

Rick_S,

Absolutely not! As I mentioned, this is not the first time their software has reverted to a trial. VERY disappointing!