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Basic File Recovery

NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS ON THE SAME PARTITION WHERE THEY RESIDE!!!

Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data.

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 an existing or recognized partition,

1	Double-click a partition on the R-Linux 's Drives panel to enumerate files on the disk

Other ways to enumerate files

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 partition on the object or scan the object.

>	R-Linux will change its panel showing the disk's folders/files structure

R-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-Linux shows only those files/folders that match a specified file mask .

R-Linux 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 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.

Files shown as icons/tiles

Recovery chances

R-Linux shows its estimates of chances for successful file recovery in the Rec column.

Recovery chances

	Undefined
	Good
	Above average
	Average
	Below average
	Bad

When R‑Linux 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.

File Information

More information

	Click this button to pin the file information. This panel will show the information about the "pinned" file regardless of the current selected file.
	Click this button to copy all this information
	Click this button to select the file you want to go to.
	Click this button to close all the information.

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-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-Linux will keep information about the entire file structure.

You may also copy the information about folders and files.

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-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-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

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 options

Condense successful restoration events	If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers the folder structure in which all files to recover reside starting from the common topmost folder.
Restore folder structure	If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers the entire path to the selected object.
Restore from root	If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers the entire path to the selected object starting from the root folder of the disk.
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.
Recover metafiles	If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers disk metafiles. Metafiles are the file system's internal files invisible to any user, or file system data, which R-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-Linux recovers alternative data streams for file systems that support them
Recover security	If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers security attributes for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files.
Recover extended attributes	If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers extended (HPFS) file attributes.
Skip files with bad sectors	If this check box is selected, R-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-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-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-Linux recovers all content of a selected folder, ignoring a specified File Mask .
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

NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS ON THE SAME PARTITION WHERE THEY RESIDE!!!

Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data.

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

>	R-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

Note: R-Linux recovers files from Ext2/3/4FS partitions, but can write them to any local or network disks. R-Linux recovers symlinks as files containing the path to files which symlinks point to.

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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