R-Studio Settings

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You may specify some global setting for R-Studio on the Settings dialog box. You may reach it by selecting Preferences on the R-Studio menu.

Main

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Main dialog box
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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 contextual 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

Reset

Clicking this button will make all notification messages you hid appear again.

User's file types

File name

Specifies the path and name for an external file in which you may describe your own known file types. See Customizing File Types for details. 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 layouts

File name

Specifies the path and name for an external file in which you may describe your own customized RAID layout. See Description File for RAID Configurations for details.

HexView templates path

 

Location

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

File Systems

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File Systems dialog box
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Default encoding for HFS volumes

Encoding

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.

Log

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Log dialog box

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Maximum messages in the Event Log

Specifies the number of messages stored in the log file

Logging


Save log to file

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

File name

Specifies the file name of the log file. If that file already exists, the data will be appended to that file.

Type


Files

If this checkbox is selected, R-Studio logs all events with files.

File System

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

Partition

If this checkbox is selected, R-Studio logs all events with FAT.

Recover

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

Disk

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

Network

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

Severity

 

Error

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

Warning

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

Information

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

Success

If this checkbox 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.

Known File Types

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Known File Types dialog box

You may specify which Known File Types will be enabled/disabled by default. You may also specify know file types to search for during a specific scan session on the Scan dialog box.

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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

Bad Sectors

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Bad Sectors dialog box
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Default read attempts

Specifies how many times R-Studio will try to read a bad sector.

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 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.