Changelog

Version 0.1.1

Added

• Startup splash screen — a branded splash with the “Deep Recovery Desk” wordmark now shows briefly at launch.
• About window — opened from the ⓘ button in the title bar; shows the logo, version, a short description and a clickable copyright link.
• Standalone branded icons at 150×150 and 71×71, alongside the 300×300 Store listing icon.

Fixed

• Scanning no longer freezes the UI. The raw-volume scanners (NTFS / FAT32 / exFAT / carver) now run on a background thread, results are added back to the grid in batches, and progress and the Stop button stay responsive.
• File preview is now built off the main thread as well, so previewing a large file no longer blocks the window; stale previews from a superseded selection are discarded.
• “Recover selected” stayed disabled after ticking individual row checkboxes — it now updates immediately.
• The startup splash window no longer shows a white frame on some systems — it now uses a solid navy background with rounded corners and a matching border.

Changed

• Widened the “Recover selected” button so the label has more breathing room.

Removed

• An unnecessary elevation capability from the package — raw scanning already relaunches a separate elevated process on demand, so the app itself never runs elevated.

Version 0.1.0

Added

• Application shell — a modern dark-themed desktop app with custom window chrome, a branded splash screen, and app / window / title-bar logos.
• Recycle Bin recovery — lists and restores items without administrator rights (highest confidence).
• NTFS recovery — recovers deleted files byte-for-byte from the master file table, and cross-references the change journal to surface names and timestamps of recently-deleted files.
• FAT32 recovery — directory-tree walk, deleted-entry detection, long-file-name reassembly, and contiguous-cluster recovery.
• exFAT recovery — full name preserved on delete; contiguous files recover cleanly and fragmented files are reassembled by following the allocation chain.
• Signature carving (Deep scan) — filesystem-agnostic recovery by file signature for JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, ZIP/Office, SQLite, 7z, RAR, GZ, TIFF and MP3.
• Live results grid — streaming results with search, per-file confidence colour coding, and a text / image / hex preview pane.
• On-demand elevation — the app runs un-elevated; raw-volume scans prompt to relaunch as administrator only when needed.

Safety & integrity

• Source volumes are opened strictly read-only with sector-aligned access; recovery refuses to write back to the source volume.
• Every recovered file is verified with a SHA-256 checksum.

Known limitations

• Raw scanners (NTFS / FAT32 / exFAT / carver) require administrator rights.
• FAT32 recovery assumes contiguous clusters (the allocation chain is freed on deletion).
• Carved files have no original name or path and may be over-sized for formats without a clear end marker.
• Change-journal entries can surface a recently-deleted file's name and time but usually not its data — shown at low confidence with no preview.