System Options

Enable Write

If this check box is selected, R-Studio enables you to write any changes made in the Text/hexadecimal editor.

Debug Mode

If this check box is selected, R-Studio displays an additional command Create FS Snapshot on the shortcut menu for an object with a file system. An FS Snapshot contains system data for the file system only (file descriptions without file contents). If a problem appears, this snapshot can be sent to R-Studio technical support to identify the problem. This option greatly slows R-Studio.

Notifications

Reset all hidden notifications

This button enables all previously disabled notification and warning messages.

User's file types

File name

Specifies a file name and path to the file where the descriptions of user's known file types are stored. You need to re-start R-Studio or click the Reload User's File Types button on the Known File Types tab for the new file to take effect.

User's RAID layout

File name

Specifies a file name and path to the file where the descriptions of user's RAID layouts are stored

HexView templates path

Location

Specifies the path for pattern description files for Text/Hexadecimal editor.

Default encoding for HFS volumes

Select the national encoding for the HFS partitions.

Default encoding for Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/UFS volumes

Select the national encoding for the Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, and UFS partitions.

Disable any sorting

Select this option if the number of files on the disk is so large that R-Studio sorts files in selected folders for too long time.

Minimize disk access

Select this option if a lot of bad sectors are on the hard drive. R-Studio will reduce access to internal files in the file system to speed up the interpretation of file system data.

Show deleted empty folders

Select this option if you want to view empty deleted folders.

Logging

Maximum messages in the Event Log

Specifies the maximum number of messages R-Studio will keep in the event log

Save log to file

If this check box is selected, R-Studio writes its log into a log file specified in the File name field.

File name

Specifies the file name in which the log will be saved.

Type

File

If this check box is selected, R-Studio logs all events with recovered files.

File System

If this check box is selected, R-Studio logs all events with the file system.

Partition

If this check box selected, R-Studio logs all events with partitions.

Recover

If this check box is selected, R-Studio logs all events with the recovering processes.

Disk

If this check box is selected, R-Studio logs all events with disks.

Network

If this check box is selected, R-Studio logs all events with network operation.

Severity

Error

If this check box is selected, R-Studio adds error messages into its log.

Warning

If this check box is selected, R-Studio adds warning messages into its log.

Information

If this check box is selected, R-Studio adds information messages into its log.

Success

If this check box is selected, R-Studio adds success messages into its log.

NEVER WRITE A LOG FILE ON THE DISK FROM WHICH YOU RECOVER DATA!!!

Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data.

Note: If in the Recover dialog box the Condense successful restoration events check box is selected, the Log will display only Error, Warning, and Information event messages.

Reset

Click this button to reset the settings to the previous state. Active until the Apply button is clicked.

Select All

Click this button to select all file types in the list.

Clear All

Click this button to clear all file types in the list except some predefined ones.

Reload User's File Types

Click this button to apply new file types after the user's file types file has been changes from the Main tab.

Edit User's File Types

Click this button to add a new customer's Known File Type, or to edit already existing ones. See the Customizing File Types help page for more details.

Default read attempts

Specifies a default value for I/O Tries, or how many times R-Studio will try to read a bad sector. You may specify this parameter for each drive separately on the Properties tab.

Set for all drives

Click this button to reset I/O Tries for all drives to the default value.

Pattern to fill bad blocks

Specifies a default pattern R-Studio will use to fill bad sectors in files to recover, in images, or when showing data in the Text/hexadecimal editor. You may specify the pattern either in the ANSI or Hex data format.

Note: R-Studio will never ever try to write anything on the disk from which data is to recover or an image is to create.