- A -
- B -
Bad Sectors settings
Broken File Name
Rename and change all invalid symbols to:
Broken File Name options
Button
Buttons
- C -
Contact information and technical support
Context menu
Delete All Scanned Information
Find Previous Versions of the File
Find Template Signature Previous
Create menu
- D -
Data Copy in Text/hexadecimal viewer
Dialog boxes
Drive menu
- E -
Edit menu
Find Template Signature Previous
Exclusive Region options
- F -
File Already Exists
File mask options
File menu
File Systems settings
Default encoding for Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/UFS volumes
Default encoding for HFS volumes
File Types
Find options
Finding Previous File Versions
- H -
Help menu
- I -
Image options
Compressed image (R-Drive Image compatible)
- L -
Log settings
Maximum messages in the Event Log
- M -
Main settings
Reset all hidden notifications
Messages
Double-click a logical disk...
- O -
Opening several disks/partitions in one tab
- P -
Panels
Panes
Properties tab
- R -
Recover options
Condense successful restoration events:
Recover alternative data streams:
Region options
- S -
Scan options
Search options
Settings
- T -
Tabs
Technical Information and Troubleshooting
Tools menu
- V -
Various Disk and Volume Managers
View menu
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 |
• Select the disk and click the Show 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 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 .
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-Linux shows its estimates of chances for successful file recovery in the Rec column. Recovery chances
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.
More information
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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.
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-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 |
• 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 |
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.
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 |
> | 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