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See the Data Recovery Issues
topic for details.
Basic file recovery can be made for deleted files that has
resided on an existing logical disk visible to the operating
system. In all other cases, Advanced Data Recovery is
required.
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Double-click a logical disk on the
R-Studio's panel to
enumerate files on the disk |
Other ways to enumerate files
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Select the disk and click the
button, |
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Right-click the selected disk and
select Open Drive Files
on the shortcut menu, |
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Select the disk and press the
F5 key. |
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Select Open Drive Files on
the Drive menu |
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If you try to
enumerate files on a hard drive or another object without a valid
file system on it, a message will appear. Select a logical disk on the
object or scan the object.
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R-Studio will change its panel showing the disk's folders/files
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R-Studio
analyzes data on the object and displays
all files for which records have been found in the analyzed tables.
If files have not been found, that means that their records have
been deleted. To find such files, Advanced Data Recovery is
required.
Please note
that R-Studio shows only those files/folders that match a
specified file mask.
R-Studio Main panel
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Click the panel regions to learn
their functions.
You may set which panels and bars to enable/disable. To
enable/disable
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The Toolbar
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Select/clear
Toolbar on
the View menu
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The Status bar
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Select/clear
Status bar on
the View menu
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The panel
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Select/clear
Folders View on the View
menu
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The panel
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Select/clear
Contents View on the View
menu
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The panel
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Select/clear
Event Log on
the View menu
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The panel
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Select/clear
Find Results on the View
menu
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You may also arrange the
data as required. On the View menu, select
Arrange and
them a required arrangement.
You may specify which
columns will be visible on the panel. On
the View menu, select Contents
Columns, and select the columns you
want to see.
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The
panel will
show how many files and folders are on the object, and their size.
You may specify which events will be shown in the log pane by
setting a log filter.
Note: Metafiles are the file system's internal files
invisible to any user, or file system data, which
R-Studio represents as files. These files do not contain user
data directly. Unless you want to scrutinize a disk file system, do
not restore them.
If the
message appears, you may temporally stop file
listing and browse through found files. Then you can resume file
listing. You also may skip this file topic and continue.
R-Studio will keep information about the entire file
structure.
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Select a file/folder to recover
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You may select
several files/folders in the same parent folder by pressing
the Shift button and clicking the objects
simultaneously.
Marking multiple files/folders from different parent folders
manually:
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Mark a file/folder to
recover by clicking the box left to the object, or select
Mark on the
shortcut menu. You may mark several files/folders in different
parent folders. You may mark all objects in the folder by
selecting Mark All
on the Tools or shortcut menu.
To unmark an object, click the box left to the object once more or
select Unmark on the shortcut menu. You may unmark all objects in the
folder by selecting Unmark
All on the Tools or shortcut
menu.
The
panel will show
how many files and folders you have marked, and their total
size.
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R-Studio can
search for a particular file. Go to the Searching for a File topic for details. If you
need to find and mark many files, go to the Find and Mark Multiple
Files topic for details.
File content may
be previewed before recovery. Go to the Previewing Files topic for
details.
If you do not find files that you want to
recover:
Sometimes
R-Studio can find the files but not the entire file paths to
them. It puts such files into the Extra Found Files folder. Try to search for the files there. If that
does not help, try to find them by using file search globally on
the entire disk. Go to the Searching for a File topic for details
If you still
cannot find files that you want to recover but are sure they have
existed on the logical disk, you need to use Advanced Data
Recovery to find them.
Other ways to recover selected files
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Right-click the selected file/folder and
select Recover or Recover Marked
on the shortcut menu, |
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Select Recover or
Recover Marked on the File menu |
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Specify recover options and output folder on the
Recover dialog
box and click the OK
button |
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Recover dialog box
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If you have
another computer connected to R-Studio over
network, the Recover
dialog box will be slightly
different. See Data recovery over network
for details.
Recover options
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Condense successful
restoration events
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
will display only error and warning messages
in its Log
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Restore folder
structure
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
recovers the entire path to the selected
object.
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Restore from root
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
recovers the entire path to the selected
object starting from the root folder of the disk.
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Recover metafiles
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
recovers disk metafiles. Metafiles are the
file system's internal files invisible to any user, or file system
data, which R-Studio
represents as files. These files do not
contain user data directly. Unless you want to scrutinize a disk
file system, do not restore them.
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Recover alternative data
streams
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
recovers alternative data streams for NTFS
files. Has no effect on FAT files. See Extended Information
Recovery for details.
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Recover security
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
recovers security attributes for NTFS files.
Has no effect on FAT files. See Extended Information
Recovery for details.
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Recover extended
attributes
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
recovers extended (HPFS) file
attributes.
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Recover real folders
structure
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Enabled when the files are
sorted by their extensions or date. See Find and Mark Multiple
Files for details. If this check
box is selected, R-Studio
recovers the real folders/files structure on
the disk rather than that of sorted files.
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Skip files with bad
sectors
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
skips files with bad sectors and displays
their list on the Files with bad
sectors dialog box when the recovery
has been completed. You may separately decide later what to do with
those files. See Bad sectors for
details.
If this check box is
cleared, R-Studio
tries to read those sectors several times
(specified on the Settings/Bad Sectors
dialog box), and, if fails, fills bad sectors
in the recovered file with the pattern specified on the same box.
Information about such files will appear in the Log.
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Ignore file mask
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If this check box is
selected, R-Studio
recovers all content of a selected folder,
ignoring a specified File Mask.
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Advanced
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Specifies options for
mass file recovery
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If you want to
recover multiple files at once, go to the Recover Multiple Files for more
information
If a file to
be recovered appears to have an invalid name, a Broken File Name dialog box will appear. You may correct the name and
resume file recovery.
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Broken File Name dialog box
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Broken File Name properties
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File name
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Shows the current
incorrect file name.
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New name
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Field for a new file
name.
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Edit broken symbols
only
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If this check box is
selected, only invalid symbols may be corrected
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Change all invalid
symbols to
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If this check box is
selected, all invalid symbols will be changed to the specified
symbol
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Buttons
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Rename
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Click to resume file
recovery
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Rename All
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Click to resume file
recovery. All other files will be renamed according to the
specified rule.
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Skip
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Click to skip this
file
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Skip All
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Click to skip all files
and stop file recovery
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If there
is no space available for the recovered files, the
There is not enough space on the disk
dialog box will appear. You may either
select other place to store the files, skip that particular file or
abort the recovery process.
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There is not enough space on the disk
dialog box
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R-Studio will recover the selected/marked files/folders to the
specified folder and show the results in the pane |
The
indicator will show the log and progress of recovery
process.
Note: R-Studio recovers
files from partitions, but writes it to FAT or NTFS local
disks. Or you may write such files to network disks.
R-Studio successfully recovers files from partitions except its security
attributes. R-Studio
recovers symlinks
as files containing the path to files
which symlinks point to.
See
Data Recovery on HFS/HFS+
file system for
details on recovering data from
disks with the HFS/HFS+ file system
Previewing Files
File Masks
Regular Expressions
Event Log
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