Data recovery question.

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Well, in my experience so far of the ones I've used they don't really keep the file name. I deleted an mp3 file, removed it from the recycle bin and then many of the programs either didn't find the file or found the MP3, but the mp3 had a 4 character name and then .mp3

Although they don't seem to keep the file name the same, it does keep the extention, like a found a ton of MP3 files but they had no real file name so they were called unknown 0000123.mp3 etc. Also most of the mp3's I recovered still had ID3 tag info on them so I was able to use a program to rename them with their ID3 info.

However it would be nice for other file types if it was able to recover the original file name and not just the extension, but if they couldn't get the extension then they would be pretty much worthless.