You may create a file containing a list of files and folder found on a disk / partition . Then such file may be manually edited to specify files to recover, and then loaded back into R‑Studio . R‑Studio will automatically mark the files in this list for recovery. Such lists are very useful, for example, when it is necessary to have many files approved for recovery by someone else who is far away from the computer where R‑Studio is running.

You may create recovery lists for the entire disk or for specific folders. Moreover, you may create a recovery list for all files within the disk/folder, or for marked files/folders only.

All versions of R‑Studio can create recovery lists in the plain text format with basic functionality. R‑Studio Technician/T80+ can create custom recovery lists in other formats with more advanced options

Creating a simple recovery list

To create a recovery list

Right-click the uppermost folder (higher than Root , usually the letter or the name of the disk) and select Export Recovery List on the shortcut menu.

Export Recovery List dialog box

Options dialog box

        Export Recovery List options

Editing the file recovery list

All files without any marks in the recovery list will be marked when the list is loaded into R‑Studio . So, if you have some files in the recovery list that don't need to be recovered, just delete them from the list. In addition, you may use the following marks to specify some options

R‑Studio processes records in the list consequently. That is, if there are the following lines in the file,

:+Files_to_Recover\

:-Files_to_Delete\File_2.jpg

the file File_2.jpg won't be marked for recovery, while for the lines

:-Files_to_Recover\File_2.jpg

:+Files_to_Recover\

file File_2.jpg will be.

Loading the edited recovery list

To load a recovery list into R‑Studio,

Right-click the uppermost folder (higher than Root , usually the letter or the name of the disk) and select Import Recovery List on the shortcut menu.

An example of a simple recovery list

As an example, we'll create a simple recovery list, edit it to mark only those files that are to be recovered, and load it back to mark those files.

To create such recovery list

Right-click the uppermost folder (higher than Root , usually the letter or the name of the disk) and select Export Recovery List on the shortcut menu.

Export Recovery List

Specify the necessary options and click the OK button.

Structure of a simple recovery list file created by R‑Studio

:# Version = 1

:# Sort = by real

:# PathDelim = /

:# CaseSensitive

:# Drive = type:"Volume"; size:"1048576000"; mountpoint:"e:\"; label:"ntfs test"; fs:"NTFS"; 

:# Parent = type:"Drive"; size:"1048576000"; serial:"2cca54405a8d3a89"; firmware:"2.00"; product:"01gb i-disk"; vendor:"c-one"; 

Diving/

Diving/Aquarium/

Diving/Aquarium/20190822_100644.jpg

Diving/Aquarium/20190822_101620.jpg

Diving/Aquarium/20190822_102526.jpg

Diving/Aquarium/20190822_103830.jpg

Diving/Aquarium/20190822_104333.jpg

Diving/MyPhoto1.jpg

Diving/MyPhoto2.jpg

Diving/MyPhoto3.jpg

Diving/MyPhoto4.JPG

Diving/MyPhoto5.jpg

SF/

SF/Sea-Lions/

SF/Sea-Lions/IMG_3493.JPG

SF/Sea-Lions/IMG_3535.JPG

SF/Sea-Lions/IMG_3542.JPG

SF/Sea-Lions/IMG_3579.JPG

SF/Sea-Lions/IMG_3580.JPG

SF/Sea-Lions/IMG_3581.JPG

SF/Sea-Lions/IMG_3589.JPG

SF/IMG_0869.JPG

SF/IMG_0873.JPG

SF/IMG_0890.JPG

SF/IMG_1739.JPG

SF/IMG_3460.JPG

SF/IMG_3461.JPG

SF/IMG_3476.JPG

SF/IMG_3478.JPG

SF/IMG_3479.JPG

SF/IMG_3480.JPG

SF/IMG_3481.JPG

SF/IMG_3493.JPG

SF/IMG_3535.JPG

SF/IMG_3542.JPG

SF/IMG_3579.JPG

SF/IMG_3580.JPG

SF/IMG_3581.JPG

SF/IMG_3589.JPG

SF/IMG_3590.JPG

SF/IMG_3591.JPG

SF/IMG_3592.JPG

SF/IMG_3593.JPG

SF/IMG_3594.JPG

SF/IMG_3595.JPG

SF/IMG_3596.JPG

SF/IMG_3608.JPG

SF/IMG_3627.JPG

MyPhoto6.JPG

MyPhoto7.JPG

MyPhoto8.JPG

MyPhoto9.JPG

If such recovery list is created from an entire logical disk/partition, it will contain several virtual folders. For example, they'll have the following structure for an NTFS partition.

///m/$Extend/

///m/$Extend/$Deleted/

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/$Txf/

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/$TxfLog/

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/$TxfLog/$Tops

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/$TxfLog/$TxfLog.blf

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/$TxfLog/$TxfLogContainer00000000000000000001

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/$TxfLog/$TxfLogContainer00000000000000000002

///m/$Extend/$RmMetadata/$Repair

///m/$Extend/$ObjId

///m/$Extend/$Quota

///m/$Extend/$Reparse

///m/$AttrDef

///m/$BadClus

///m/$Bitmap

///m/$Boot

///m/$LogFile

///m/$MFT

///m/$MFTMirr

///m/$Secure

///m/$UpCase

///m/$Volume

Now we need to edit this file to mark for recovery the following folders/files:

1. All files in the root folder;

2. Two files MyPhoto1.jpg and MyPhoto3.jpg in the Diving subfolder;

3. All files in the Diving/Aquarium/ folder;

4. All files in the SF/ folder except the SF/Sea-Lions/ subfolder.

The edited simple recovery list

The final simple recovery list will be the following:

:# Version = 1

:# Sort = by real

:# PathDelim = /

:# CaseSensitive

:# Drive = type:"Volume"; size:"1048576000"; mountpoint:"e:\"; label:"ntfs test"; fs:"NTFS"; 

:# Parent = type:"Drive"; size:"1048576000"; serial:"2cca54405a8d3a89"; firmware:"2.00"; product:"01gb i-disk"; vendor:"c-one";

:= Diving/

:+ Diving/Aquarium/

:+ Diving/MyPhoto1.jpg

:+ Diving/MyPhoto3.jpg

:+ SF/

:- SF/Sea-Lions/

MyPhoto6.JPG

MyPhoto7.JPG

MyPhoto8.JPG

MyPhoto9.JPG

Loading the edited recovery list

When we load this recovery list into R‑Studio , will see the following results;

The root folder

The Diving folder

The SF folder