File Scavenger Main Dialog
Look for
Click
on the drop-down list to select one or more file extensions. Leave the default value
"*" to look for all files (recommended). Note that after scanning you can use the View filters to display
only certain files. Changing the view filter does not require a rescan.
Instead
of selecting the check boxes, you can also type in a filename to look for,
optionally with the pattern-matching character "*". For examples:
| Look for | Filename | Match? |
| myfile.txt | myfile.txt | Yes |
| myfile.txt | yourfile.txt | No |
| *.txt | myfile.txt | Yes |
| *.txt | yourfile.txt | Yes |
| *.txt | myfile.docx | No |
| a*.txt | a1234.txt | Yes |
| a*.txt | za1234.txt | No |
myfile.txt: only matches "myfile.txt".
*.txt: matches all files with the file extension "txt".
a*.txt: matches all files with the file extension "txt" and begins with an "a".
You can specify multiple matching criteria, separated by commas. For example:
| Look for | Filename | Match? |
| myfile.txt,yourfile.txt | myfile.txt | Yes |
| myfile.txt,yourfile.txt | yourfile.txt | Yes |
| *.txt,a*.docx | myfile.txt | Yes |
| *.txt,a*.docx | a1234.docx | Yes |
| *.txt,a*.docx | za1234.docx | No |
To exclude certain filenames or patterns, place them inside the angle backets "<" and ">". For example:
| Look for | Filename | Match? |
| *,<*.jpg> | myfile.txt | Yes |
| *,<*.jpg> | a1234.jpg | No |
In Quick Scan, folder names can be
determined with certainty. You can supply a folder name as part of the scanning criteria. For example:
"mydata\*.txt": looks for all files with file extension ".txt" in the folder "mydata". For example, the
following files will match: "e:\mydata\myfile1.txt", "e:\Year2001\mydata\file2.txt".
"\mydata\*.txt": looks for all files with file extension ".txt" in the folder "mydata" which is under
the root folder. "e:\mydata\myfile1.txt" will match but "e:\Year2001\mydata\file2.txt" will not match.
In Long Scan, the folder names cannot be determined with certainty and
only the filename will be compared.
Look in
Selects a volume or disk to scan.
For a mapped network drive, File Scavenger® must be run on the computer where the drive physically
resides.
Quick or Long Scan
Selects a Scan Mode.
Scan
Starts scanning.
File List
Displays information and status of files found by the scan.
Status
After scanning, the status can be Good or Poor, indicating whether the
corresponding file is more or less likely to be recovered successfully. If the
status cannot be determined, it will be left blank.
After recovery, the status can be one of the following.
Saved
The file was saved in the destination folder. However, there is no guarantee the content of the recovered
file is still intact. You need to open the file to validate it.
Failed
The file was not saved because of an error that should be displayed in the status panel.
Skipped
The
file was skipped based on the selected Overwrite
Mode. Empty files are also skipped if the filename already exists.
Volume
The
volume this file is determined to belong to. See Volume
Affiliation.
After scanning is complete, you can click on the tab "Step 2: Save" to move to the saving step. The
following elements will be displayed:
Destination folder
You can type in a folder path or use the Browse button to select a folder to
save recovered files to. This folder should not be on the drive holding lost data.
Use Folder Names
Restores original folder names. For example, if you search drive E: and save E:\dir1\file1.txt to
"D:\recovery", the recovered file will be
saved as "d:\recovery\dir1\file1.txt" if this option is checked. Otherwise the file
will be saved as "d:\recovery\file1.txt".
Save
Starts saving the recovered files.
