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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 by the operating system. In all other cases, Advanced Data Recovery is required.
| 1 | Double-click a logical disk on the R-Studio's panel to enumerate files on the disk |
 Other ways to enumerate files
| • | Select the disk and click the button, |
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| • | Control-click the selected disk and select Open Drive Files on the contextual menu, |
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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.
| 2 | R-Studio will change its panel showing the disk's folders/files structure |
R-Studio analyzes data on the object and displays all files which records have been found in the analyzed tables. Then deleted files, which records still remain, can be recovered. 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
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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Toolbar Button Text
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Select/clear Toolbar Button Text 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.
| 3 | Select a file/folder to recover |
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:
Mark a file/folder to recover by clicking the box left to the object, or select Mark on the contextual 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 contextual menu. To unmark an object, click the box left to the object once more or select Unmark on the contextual menu. You may unmark all objects in the folder by selecting Unmark All on the Tools or contextual 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
| • | Control-click the selected file/folder and select Recover or Recover Marked on the contextual menu, |
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| • | Select Recover or Recover Marked on the File menu |
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| 5 | Specify recover options and output folder on the Recover dialog box and click the OK button |
 | | Recover dialog box |
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.
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Recover options
Condense successful restoration events:
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If this check box is selected, R-Studio recovers the folder structure in which all files to recover reside starting from the common topmost folder.
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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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Ignore file mask:
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If this check box is selected, R-Studio recovers all content of a selected folder, ignoring specified File Mask.
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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.
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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.
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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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Remove hidden attributes
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If this check box is selected, R-Studio will remove the Hidden and System attributes from recovered files enabling the user to see them.
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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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Mass File Recovery Options
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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.
 | | Broken File Name dialog box |
Broken File Name properties
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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| > | 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.
Searching for a File
Previewing Files
File Masks
Regular Expressions
Event Log
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