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.

To recover deleted files from a logical disk (recognized partition),

1	Double-click a logical disk in the R‑Studio 's Drives panel to enumerate files on the disk

Other ways to enumerate files

If you try to enumerate files on a 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 will change its panel showing the disk's folders/files structure

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

Click the panel regions to learn their functions. Panel view options You may set which panels and bars to enable/disable. To enable/disable
The Toolbar	Select/clear Toolbar on the View menu
The Status bar	Select/clear Status bar on the View menu
The Folders panel	Select/clear Folders View on the View menu
The Files panel	Select/clear Contents View on the View menu
The Log panel	Select/clear Event Log on the View menu
The Find Results panel	Select/clear Find Results on the View menu
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 in 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. Files shown as icons/tiles Recovery chances R‑Studio shows its estimates of chances for successful file recovery in the Rec column. File Information You may view some information about a file. Right-click the file and select Get Info on the context menu. File Information R‑Studio Technician/T80+ 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 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 will keep information about the entire file structure.

You may also copy the information about folders and files.

Symbolic Link processing

R‑Studio recognizes symlinks and processes them as specified in the R-Studio Settings panel. Go to the Data Recovery Issues topic for details.

You may open several disks/ partitions in one tab. Read the Opening several disks/partitions in one tab help page for more details.

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.

Marking multiple files/folders from different parent folders manually:

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 drive. 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

Other ways to recover selected files

4	Specify recover options and output folder on the Recover dialog box and click the OK button

Recover dialog box

Recover (Advanced) 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.

Recover options

Recover all marked files	All files, regardless of the applied mask, will be recovered.
Recovered only masked marked files	Only files matching the applied mask will be recovered.
Condense successful restoration events	If this check box is selected, R‑Studio will display only error and warning messages in its Log
Restore folder structure	If this check box is selected, R‑Studio recovers the entire path to the selected object.
Restore from root	If this check box is selected, R‑Studio 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 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.
Recover alternative data streams	If this check box is selected, R‑Studio 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 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 recovers extended file attributes in the file system.
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 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 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 .
Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files	If this check box is selected, R‑Studio does not recover files from Extra Found Files (raw files) that are duplicates of the files found in file system (Root).
Ignore file mask	If this check box is selected, R‑Studio 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.

R-Studio Technician/T80+

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.

Broken File Name dialog box

Broken File Name properties

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
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.

There is not enough space on the disk dialog box

>	R‑Studio 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 recovers files from Ext2/3/4FS partitions, but writes it to FAT or NTFS local disks. Or you may write such files to network drives. R‑Studio successfully recovers files from Ext2/3/4FS 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

Opening several disk/partitions in one tab

Searching for a File

Finding Previous File Versions

Data Recovery Articles

PC Privacy Articles

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.

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