Recovering individual files with DDRescue-GUI

Seeing as you can recover from device files, it stands to reason that you can recover individual files as well. Just select them under the source option, and create a new file under the destination, and all should be fine. Again, you may need to select "View All Files/Devices" in the file dialog to see most files. This might be difficult to do on Macs, so you can instead use the "Enter Custom Path" option as a fallback.

[Important]Important

Make sure that you haven't got "Direct Disk Access" checked in the settings window, as it may cause strange behaviour.

[Note]Note

If you're wondering why this is helpful, it might be if you've only got a few files you care about on a failing drive, and you've checked that you can't read/copy them the normal way. This should work especially well if they're large files.