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Restorer Ultimate for Mac
- Contents
- Index
- Introduction to Restorer Ultimate for Mac
- Restorer Ultimate for Mac Main Panel, Settings, and Log
- Images and Regions
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File Recovery
- Recover Files from Existing Logical Disks
- Recover Files from Deleted/Corrupted Logical Disks and Partitions
- Disk Scan
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Data Recovery from Volume Sets and RAIDs
- Spanned Volumes, Stripe Sets, and Mirrors
- Basic RAID 4 and RAID 5
- RAID 6 Reed-Solomon Presets
- RAID6 (Double Xor) Presets
- RAIDs with Parity Delays
- Advanced RAID Layouts
- Nested and Non-Standard RAID Levels
- Finding RAID Parameters
- Checking RAID Consistency
- Syntax of a Description File for RAID Configurations
- Description Files for RAID Configurations
- Various Disk and Volume Managers
- Data Recovery over Network
- Text/Hexadecimal Editor
- Technical Information
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Recover Deleted Files from Mac Disks
Due to specifics of file deletion on Mac disks (the HFS/HFS+ file system), deleted files cannot be recovered directly. Therefore, recovery using the Raw File Search is required.
To recover deleted files from a Mac disk,
| 1 | Select the Mac disk where the deleted files resided on the Device/Disk list and click the Next button |
Device/Disk list panel
| 2 | Select Disk Scan on the File search/Disk scan panel and click the Next button |
File search/Disk scan panel
| 3 | S pecify the following parameters on the Scan dialog box and click the OK button |
To reach the it click the Change Scan Options button or Actions->Set scan options on Task List .
Scan dialog box
Required scan options
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Disk Size: |
Shows the size of the object to be scanned |
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Start: |
Set it to 0. |
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Size: |
Check that it is set to the Disk size. |
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File Systems: |
Check that all file systems are cleared except HFS. |
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Enable Raw File Search |
Check that this option is enabled and required file types are selected. See Raw File Search for more details. |
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Save scan Info to File: |
If this checkbox is selected, Restorer Ultimate will save scan information to a specified file. Later this file may be opened. Please note, that this option does not save actual disk data, only information on disk data structure gathered during disk scan. |
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NEVER TRY TO SAVE SCAN INFORMATION ON THE OBJECT BEING SCANNED!!! Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data. |
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You may see more information about scan option on the Disk Scan topic.
| > | Restorer Ultimate starts scanning the disk, and its panel will show the scan progress: |
Scan progress panel panel
| > | When scan is complete,click Next and Restorer Ultimate will show the found files on the scanned disk |
Folders/Contents panel
Deleted files may be found in the Lost Files folder under a corresponding file type. No file names or folder structure can be recovered in this case. You may find required files by looking at their file size preview them.
File preview
| 3 | Select files to recover and click the Next button |
File preview
| 4 | Specify recovery options, select the target folder for recovered files on the Recover panel and click the Next button. |
NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS ON THE SAME LOGICAL DISK WHERE THEY RESIDE!!!
Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data.
Recovery options panel panel
See more information about recovery options on the Recover Files from Existing Logical Disks topic.
| > | Restorer Ultimate will recover the selected and marked files to the specified folder. |
The Recovery results panel will show the results.
Recovery results panel
See more about file recovery process on the Recover Files from Existing Logical Disks topic.