System Options

Auto-refresh Drive Tree

If this box is selected, R‑Studio automatically refreshes the list of connected drives. You may disable it if R‑Studio experiences problems with connected devices.

Debug Mode

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio displays an additional command Create FS Snapshot on the shortcut 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 .

Enable forensic mode (demo)

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio turns on the Forensic mode in demo mode.

Check for update

If this box is selected, R‑Studio will automatically check for updates.

Use dark mode

If this box is selected, R‑Studio will change to its dark mode.

Edit options

Enable Write

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio Technician/T80+ enables you to write any changes made in the Text/​hexadecimal editor . It enables wiping objects in R-Studio and R-Studio Corporate.

Max changes buffer size

Maximum amount of data stored for the Undo command in the Text/​hexadecimal editor . R‑Studio Technician ( /T80+ )

User paths

File types

Specifies a file name and path to the file where the descriptions of user's known file types are stored. 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.

RAID layout presets

Specifies a file name and path to the file where the descriptions of user's RAID layouts are stored

Text/​hexadecimal editor templates

Specifies the path for pattern description files for Text/​hexadecimal editor .

Mask presets

Specifies a file name and path to the file with file mask presets.

Reset all hidden notifications

This button enables all previously disabled notification and warning messages.

Default encoding for HFS volumes

Encoding

Select the national encoding for the HFS partitions .

Default encoding for Ext 2/​Ext3/​Ext4/ ​UFS volumes

Encoding

Select the national encoding for the Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, and UFS partitions.

File system sorting

Disable any sorting

Select this option if the number of files on the drive is so large that R‑Studio sorts files in selected folders for too long time.

Advanced file system interpretation

Minimize drive access

Select this option if a lot of bad sectors are on the drive. R‑Studio will reduce access to internal files in the file system to speed up the interpretation of file system data.

Show deleted empty folders

Select this option if you want to view empty deleted folders.

Link conversion (Default)

Both an object and its symbolic link are selected for recovery:

If both an object and its symbolic link are selected for recovery, both the object and its symbolic link will be recovered. The file path in that symbolic link will be converted from absolute to relative. Example: If the object C:\ProgramData\Documents is a symbolic link to C:\Users\Public\Documents , it will be converted to a symbolic link to ..\Users\Public\Documents . Therefore, the symbolic link will point to its object regardless of the place to which the object has been recovered.

Only an object is selected for recovery:

Only the selected object will be recovered.

Only a symbolic link is selected for recovery:

The selected symbolic link will be recovered as a real object.

Logging

Maximum messages in the Event Log

Specifies the maximum number of messages R‑Studio will keep in the event log

Save log to file

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

File name

Specifies the file name in which the log will be saved.

Type

File

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio logs all events with recovered files.

File System

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio logs all events with the file system.

Partition

If this check box selected, R‑Studio logs all events with partitions.

Recover

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio logs all events with the recovering processes.

Drive

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio logs all events with drives.

Network

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio logs all events with network operation.

Severity

Error

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio adds error messages into its log.

Warning

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio adds warning messages into its log.

Information

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio adds information messages into its log.

Success

If this check box 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.

Note: If in the Recover dialog box the Condense successful restoration events check box is selected, the Log will display only Error , Warning , and Information event messages.

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.

Reset to Recommended

Click this button to reset the settings to the default (Recommended) file set.

Default read retries count

Specifies a default value for I/O Tries , or how many times R‑Studio will try to read a bad sector. You may specify this parameter for each drive separately on the Properties tab.

R‑Studio treats bad sectors in the following way:

It reads a certain part of drive (predefined by Windows) and

• If Default read attempts is set to 0, the entire part with bad sectors will be filled with the specified pattern.

• If Default read attempts is set to a non-zero value, R‑Studio reads again that part sector by sector, repeating the attempts the specified number of times. If R‑Studio still cannot read a bad sector, it fills the sectors with the specified pattern. In this case only the bad sectors will be filled with the pattern, but that extremely slows the drive read process.

For example, if you set Default read retries count to 1, a bad sector will be read 2 times.

Set default read retries count for all drives

Click this button to reset Default read retries count for all drives to the default value.

Pattern to fill bad blocks

Specifies a default pattern R‑Studio will use to fill bad sectors in files to recover, in images , or when showing data in the Text/​hexadecimal viewer/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 drive from which data is to recover or an image is to create.

Disable memory control

If this option is selected, the memory control is disabled.

Limit usage of the process memory by

If this option is selected, R‑Studio will automatically stop performing the task when the amount of used virtual memory reaches the specified value.

Limit usage of the process memory by

If this option is selected, R‑Studio will automatically stop performing the task when the amount of used physical memory reaches the specified value.