Basic File Recovery
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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
•Select the disk and click the Open Drive 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. ### 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.
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.
| For the folder (the Folders pane):
Click Copy Folder: | To copy the folder's name
Click Copy Path: | To copy the path to the folder
| For the file (the Contents pane):
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. ### Marking multiple files/folders from different parent folders manually:
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
### Other ways to recover selected files
•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
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 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 NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files.
Recover security | If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers security attributes for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files.
Ignore file mask | If this check box is selected, R-Linux recovers all content of a selected folder, ignoring a specified File Mask.
Mass File Recovery Options | 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
Note: R-Linux recovers files from Ext2/3/4FS partitions, but writes it to FAT or NTFS local disks. Or you may write such files to network disks. R-Linux successfully recovers files from Ext2/3/4FS partitions except its security attributes. R-Linux recovers symlinks as files containing the path to files which symlinks point to. Finding Previous File Versions Previewing Files File Masks Regular Expressions Event Log