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‑Studio for Linux shows its estimates of chances for successful file recovery in the Rec column.

Recovery chances

When R‑Studio 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

R‑Studio Technician shows much more information about a file. See the Information about a File topic for more details.

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.

Condense successful restoration events

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux will display only error and warning messages in its Log

Restore folder structure

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers the entire path to the selected object.

Restore from root

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for 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‑Studio for Linux recovers disk metafiles. Metafiles are the file system's internal files invisible to any user, or file system data, which R‑Studio for 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‑Studio for Linux recovers alternative data streams for file systems that support them. Has no effect on FAT files. See Extended Information Recovery for the NTFS file system, and Data Recovery on HFS/HFS+ File System for the Mac computers.

Recover security

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers security attributes for NTFS files. Has no effect on FAT files. See Extended Information Recovery for details.

Recover extended attributes

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux recovers extended (HPFS) file attributes.

Remove hidden attributes

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux removes the Hidden and System attributes from recovered files enabling the user to see them in the Windows Explorer.

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 for Linux recovers the real folders/​files structure on the disk rather than that of sorted files.

Skip files with bad sectors

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for 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‑Studio for 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‑Studio for 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‑Studio for Linux recovers all content of a selected folder, ignoring a specified File Mask .

Open folder when done

If this check box is selected, the folder with recovered files will be opened upon recovery completion.

Advanced

Specifies options for mass file recovery

Additional Output Folders

Additional output folders where recovered files will be stored when R-Studio for Linux runs out of space.

Shutdown the computer on task completion

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux will shut down your computer when file recovery has been completed. The program will warn you if any option on the Advanced tab is set to Prompt .

E-Mail notifications

If this check box is selected, R‑Studio for Linux will inform you about the outcome of the operation via email.

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