iMazing Reviews

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iMazing mentions (141)

• Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream

  Https://imazing.com/ can do it, but yes, would be nice if it was built in photos and videos and notes you can bulk download from https://privacy.apple.com/ - like google takeout, takes several days believe they mail you a link to the zip. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Checklist of things to do after Apple ID stolen

  For you phone, consider buying an iMazing license to do a complete back up and transfer any Music or playlists locked in Apple Music. Source: 8 months ago

• Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam

  You can also do more granular backups with software like iMazing https://imazing.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Does iCloud store unofficial/unpurchased music downloads

  No, not backed up. You have to use 3rd party SW to ‘extract’ it from the phone. Likely the most know one is https://imazing.com/ but there are a few others as well. Source: 9 months ago

• Sunday General Discussion Thread - July 9th, 2023

  Used this program last night called iMazing to extract and export tens of gigabytes of iMessage texts just from one person, and the pdf for it all came out to nearly 2gb and is 7100+ pages long. Source: 11 months ago

SDelete mentions (25)

• Keep your files safe. What can happen if you throw away a defective hard drive?

  What lessons can we take away from my story? They are, in fact, quite simple and obvious: merely deleting files and quick formatting is usually not enough when disposing of or selling hard drives. For more assurance, it’s better to perform a full format (in modern operating systems, of course). And for the truly paranoid, there’s the good old console utility SDelete from the Sysinternals suite or a tool named... - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Hyper V VM full disk, won’t boot

  I assume you were using a dynamically expanding disk - if so just note it won't dynamically contract just by deleting files. To shrink the drive you will likely need to run sdelete -z on the drive inside the VM to clear the free space, then edit and compact the VHDX. You will need to be able to boot the VM to run sdelete though so you'll need to temporarily move other files off the drive, or move the VM files to... Source: about 1 year ago

• Does formatting a drive remove bitlocker encryption from formatted data?

  You can always download sdelete https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete and do an overwrite pass just to be safe. It'll take a while but you can do other things while it's running. Source: about 1 year ago

• Bitwarden backups

  My understanding is that it doesn't completely solve it. I don't have time to dig up an authoritative source for this claim — hopefully this superuser comment will suffice. I believe that you can achieve something close to a secure erase by filling up your SSD to 100% capacity with data before deleting; the utility sdelete supposedly does this when using the -c option. Source: over 1 year ago

• Wiping HDD in windows. Which program to use?

  Check out sdelete from the MS sysinternals utilities suite: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete. Source: over 1 year ago