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NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS TO THE SAME LOGICAL DISK WHERE THEY RESIDE!!!
Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all of your data.
See the Data Recovery Issues topic for details.
Basic file recovery can be made for deleted files that has resided on an existing partition visible to the operating system. In all other cases, Advanced Data Recovery is required.
To recover deleted files from a logical disk (recognized partition),
1 | Double-click a logical disk on the R‑Studio for Linux 's Drives panel to enumerate files on the disk |
• Select the disk and click the Open Drive Files button, or • Right-click the selected disk and select Open Drive Files on the context menu, or • Select Open Drive Files on the Drive menu |
If you try to enumerate files on a hard drive or another object without a valid file system on it, a Double-click a logical disk... message will appear. Select a logical disk on the object or scan the object.
> | R‑Studio for Linux will change its panel showing the disk's folders/files structure |
R‑Studio for Linux 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 for Linux shows only those files/folders that match a specified file mask .
Click the panel regions to learn their functions. Panel view options You may set which panels and bars to enable/disable. To enable/disable |
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The Toolbar |
Select/clear Toolbar on the View menu |
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The Status bar |
Select/clear Status bar on the View menu |
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The Folders panel |
Select/clear Folders View on the View menu |
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The Files panel |
Select/clear Contents View on the View menu |
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The Log panel |
Select/clear Event Log on the View menu |
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The Find Results panel |
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 Files panel. On the View menu, select Contents Columns , and select the columns you want to see. Files can be shown as a list or as icons/tiles of different sizes.
Recovery chances R‑Studio for Linux shows its estimates of chances for successful file recovery in the Rec column. Recovery chances
When R‑Studio has enumerated files, those estimates may not be accurate and aren't available for most files. You may improved them by right-clicking any folder on the Content pane and selecting Recheck Recovery Chances on the context menu. The best estimations are though after scanning the disk/partition. File Information You may view some information about a file. Right-click the file and select Get Info on the context menu.
R‑Studio Technician shows much more information about a file. See the Information about a File topic for more details. |
The Log 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 for Linux 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 Too many files... 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 for Linux will keep information about the entire file structure.
You may also copy the information about folders and files.
Click Copy Folder : |
To copy the folder's name |
Click Copy Path : |
To copy the path to the folder |
Click Copy (Column Name) : |
To copy the file's Name , Size , Created , etc., depending on which column is selected |
Click Copy Path : |
To copy the file path. |
Click Copy Selected Text : |
To copy all the columns of the selected file. |
2 | 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.
Mark a file/folder to recover by clicking the box left to the object, or select Mark on the context 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 context menu. To unmark an object, click the box left to the object once more or select Unmark on the context menu. You may unmark all objects in the folder by selecting Unmark All on the Tools or context menu. The Log panel will show how many files and folders you have marked, and their total size. |
R‑Studio for Linux 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 for Linux 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.
3 | Click the Recover or Recover Marked button |
• Right-click the selected file/folder and select Recover or Recover Marked on the context menu, or • Select Recover or Recover Marked on the File menu. |
If you have another computer connected to R‑Studio for Linux over network, the Recover dialog box will be slightly different. See Data recovery over network for details.
Condense successful restoration events |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux will display only error and warning messages in its Log |
Restore folder structure |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers the entire path to the selected object. |
Restore from root |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers the entire path to the selected object starting from the root folder of the disk. |
Recover metafiles |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers disk metafiles. Metafiles are the file system's internal files invisible to any user, or file system data, which R‑Studio for Linux represents as files. These files do not contain user data directly. Unless you want to scrutinize a disk file system, do not restore them. |
Recover alternative data streams |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers alternative data streams for file systems that support them. Has no effect on FAT files. See Extended Information Recovery for the NTFS file system, and Data Recovery on HFS/HFS+ File System for the Mac computers. |
Recover security |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers security attributes for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files. See Extended Information Recovery for details. |
Recover extended attributes |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers extended (HPFS) file attributes. |
Remove hidden attributes |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux removes the Hidden and System attributes from recovered files enabling the user to see them in the Windows Explorer. |
Recover real folders structure |
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 for Linux recovers the real folders/files structure on the disk rather than that of sorted files. |
Skip files with bad sectors |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux 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 for Linux 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 . |
Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux does not recover files from Extra Found Files (raw files) that coincide with files recovered from the file system. |
Ignore file mask |
If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers all content of a selected folder, ignoring a specified File Mask . |
Open local folder (folders) when done |
If this check box is selected, the folder with recovered files will be opened upon recovery completion. |
Advanced |
Specifies options for mass file recovery |
If you want to recover multiple files at once, go to the Recover Multiple Files for more information
It has additional Recovery options.
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.
File name |
Shows the current incorrect file name. |
New name |
Field for a new file name. |
Edit broken symbols only |
If this check box is selected, only invalid symbols may be corrected |
Change all invalid symbols to |
If this check box is selected, all invalid symbols will be changed to the specified symbol |
Buttons |
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Rename |
Click to resume file recovery |
Rename All |
Click to resume file recovery. All other files will be renamed according to the specified rule. |
Skip |
Click to skip this file |
Skip All |
Click to skip all files and stop file recovery |
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.
> | R‑Studio for Linux will recover the selected/marked files/folders to the specified folder and show the results in the Log pane |
The Recovery progress indicator will show the log and progress of recovery process.
You may change some options during the process of file recovery
Only in the Technician version
Note: R‑Studio for Linux recovers files from Ext2/3/4FS partitions, but can write them to any local or network disks. . R‑Studio for Linux successfully recovers files from Ext2FS partitions except its security attributes. R‑Studio for Linux 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
Opening several disk/partitions in one tab