Argos

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

Dependencies

All platforms

Dependency	Version
Rust	stable, 1.89+
Node.js	24

Debian, Ubuntu and Mint

sudo apt install \
  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
  libgtk-3-dev \
  libappindicator3-dev \
  librsvg2-dev \
  libsoup-3.0-dev \
  patchelf

Fedora and RHEL

sudo dnf install \
  webkit2gtk4.1-devel \
  gtk3-devel \
  libappindicator-gtk3-devel \
  librsvg2-devel \
  libsoup3-devel \
  patchelf

Windows

MSVC build tools are required.

WebView2 ships with Windows 10 and 11.

macOS

Xcode Command Line Tools are required.

Build from source

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.

Platform builds

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.yml

Engine only

To build and run the recovery engine without the Tauri application:

cargo build --release -p argos

The resulting binary is:

target/release/argos