Recover Files Window

There may be one, two or three top-level folders in this window, depending on the type of scan you did and what was found on the media.  Two of these are named "Orphans Folder" and "CBR".  The third is named the same as the name of the volume or device that you scanned, which we will call the "media name folder".

Media Name Folder

This folder contains the reconstructed filesystem tree that Data Rescue was able to find with its catalog scan mechanism.  This is the first place you should look for your files that you want to recover.

Orphans Folder

This folder contains files and folders also found with the catalog scan mechanism, but for these items, Data Rescue could not find a parent directory to put them in.  So Data Rescue synthesizes (makes up) some folder names, and puts the orphans items in there.

CBR Folder

This folder contains the files found by the content part of the scan.  Files found this way do not have their original names or folders.  Instead, they have names and folders synthesized by Data Rescue based on the type of data they contain.  It is quite possible (in fact highly likely) that some of the files under this folder are duplicates of files in the media name or orphans folder found by the catalog scan.  (Data Rescue does not currently have a means to cross-reference these, though this may be added in the future.)

Finding Your Files

To find specific files when you know the name and folder of the file, first try just starting at the top of the media name folder and working your way down to the folder of interest.  Be aware that with a thorough scan, there will often be more than one folder of the same name.  If what you are looking for isn't in one, it might be in another of the same name.  You can also search for files and folders by name.  Type a name in the search box in the upper right of the window, or bring up the Edit --> Find menu item.  This will do a case-insensitive search for file and folder names which contain the string you typed in.

Selecting and Recovering Files