Deleted image recovery tool for HDDs, SSDs and NVMe drives.
Argos opens the storage medium read-only and never writes to it. Every recovered image is recorded with the extents it came from and the hash of the data written to the destination.
It supports:
- JPEG and PNG carving directly from the raw storage surface
- Recovery from NTFS, ext2/3/4, FAT32, exFAT, APFS and btrfs metadata
- Reassembly of photographs stored in fragmented pieces
| Dependency | Version |
|---|---|
| Rust | stable, 1.89+ |
| Node.js | 24 |
sudo apt install \
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
libgtk-3-dev \
libappindicator3-dev \
librsvg2-dev \
libsoup-3.0-dev \
patchelfsudo dnf install \
webkit2gtk4.1-devel \
gtk3-devel \
libappindicator-gtk3-devel \
librsvg2-devel \
libsoup3-devel \
patchelfMSVC build tools are required.
WebView2 ships with Windows 10 and 11.
Xcode Command Line Tools are required.
npm --prefix crates/argos_ui/ui ci
cargo build --release -p argos
triple=$(rustc -vV | sed -n 's/^host: //p')
mkdir -p crates/argos_ui/binaries
cp target/release/argos "crates/argos_ui/binaries/argos-$triple"
(cd crates/argos_ui/ui && \
TAURI_APP_PATH="$PWD/.." \
TAURI_FRONTEND_PATH="$PWD" \
npx tauri build)
mkdir -p installers
find crates/argos_ui/target -path '*/release/bundle/*' -type f \
\( -name '*.deb' -o -name '*.rpm' -o -name '*-setup.exe' -o -name '*.dmg' \) \
-exec cp {} installers/ \;The installers are copied to installers/ at the project root.
The build targets the platform on which it is run. Tauri links against the platform's native web view:
- Linux: WebKitGTK
- Windows: WebView2
- macOS: WKWebView
The application shell also contains platform-specific code, so a build on one operating system does not produce installers for the others.
The release workflow builds each platform on its own runner and only publishes artifacts when triggered by a tag.
gh workflow run release.ymlTo build and run the recovery engine without the Tauri application:
cargo build --release -p argosThe resulting binary is:
target/release/argos