File Panel
File panel displays virtual directory structure and allows browsing through directories and selecting items to recover or to open them in the Disk Editor. You should open a volume to access the file panel.
Open virtual directory [All Found / Virtual FS] to virtually reconstruct file system and display all found and removed files and directories. The results of Full Scan are used for reconstruction.
To recover files marked as "found" or "deleted" (see icon description below) the corresponding options must be selected in the data recovery dialog box.
Directory structure is virtual and may differ from the one that can be found directly on the disk or in the standard browser. Virtual names are enclosed in square brackets or begin with the sign $ and are usually placed in the topmost level of the directory structure. Virtual directory $Root generally corresponds to a root directory of a volume in the standard browser.
| Press [F2]/[Shift+F9]/[Shift+F10] or right click the item for a context menu. |
| Press [Enter] key or double click to open the directory, or open the file in the Disk Editor or for preview. |
| Press [Ctrl+Enter] to open the item in the Disk Editor. |
| Press [Insert] key or [Space Bar] or click the checkbox to toggle marking the item for recovery. |
File Attributes
E/C/s: encrypted/compressed/sparce (NTFS)
D: directory
R/H/S/A: hidden/read only/system/archive
x/f: "deleted"/"found"
File Icons
| GUI | Console | Icon Description |
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[.] | normal directory containing files |
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[ ] | directory not containing files |
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[x] | directory containing deleted files |
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[f] | directory containing "found" files |
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[x} | directory containing deleted and "found" files |
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(x) | deleted directory |
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(f) | deleted directory containing "found" files |
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(.] | deleted directory containing not deleted files (some kind of FS error) |
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(f] | deleted directory containing normal and "found" files (FS error) |
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{f} | "found" directory (FS block number in square brackets follows name) |
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{.} | "found" directory containing normal files |
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{x} | "found" directory containing deleted files |
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{.) | "found" directory containing normal and deleted files |
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(x} | "found" deleted directory |
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(r} | "found" deleted directory containing deleted files |
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(f} | "found" deleted directory containing not deleted files |
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(.} | "found" deleted directory containing not deleted and normal files |
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. | normal file (within the base file system structures) |
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+. | [normal] FS file also found by signatures (if Raw-search was performed) |
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-. | [normal] FS file not found by signatures at the corresponding disk location, maybe damaged file / wrong type / not recognized |
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f | "found" file (within additionally found FS fragment, fragment number is in square brackets, [J] indicates FS journal) |
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x | deleted file |
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xf | "found" deleted file |
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+. | file found by signature (Raw) |
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+.+ | file found by signature, end file signature (EOF) is found |
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+.- | file found by signature, end signature not found |
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+.~ | file by signature, size detected, probably fragmented or partially overwritten |
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.+ | file found by end signature |
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[>] | directory which content is not completely known |
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|.| | virtual directory containing several FS records belonging to a single file |
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[.] | $MetaData - virtual directory containing special FS files |
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[.] | $NonameFiles: contains files whose names and parents are lost |
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{f} | $Raw: contains files found by signatures |
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. | FileName:StreamName - NTFS alternate data stream (displayed after FS reconstruction) |