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User Guide

Finding lost or deleted files

With many of files and directories to view, finding a particular file in a tree display can be difficult. The find option makes finding files your need much easier. If you know the name, extension, time, date, size or type of the file you are looking for, you can search the entire drive for a specified file or files with this option.

Once a drive has been opened you can search your deleted file by selecting Find from Object menu. The following window will appear:

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If you are looking for files of a specific name, you can enter a file filter string. The search is very flexible allowing multiple wildcards within the search. The wildcard character are the '*' and '?' symbols. The '*' can replace a file name, parts of a file name or a file extension. The '?' can replace a single character in a file name or extension. In the following there are some examples of wild card searches.

NOTE: When using this option it is important to remember that deleted files may have the '_' symbol as first letter on FAT systems. Therefore it is usually best to leave out the first letter of the file name to be searched.

 

     
Examples:
If you are looking for: Use this: You get back:
All files named "mybusiness" with multiple extensions. mybusiness.* Mybusiness.mdb, mybusiness.doc, mybusiness.xls or any other file named mybusiness regardless of the extension
Files named "mybusiness1.doc", "mybusiness2.doc", "mybusiness3.doc" etc. mybusiness*.doc The search will return all files starting with "mybusiness" with the .doc extension. So you will get "mybusiness1.doc", "mybusiness2.doc", etc.
If you are looking for files containing the word business.   business   All files containing business, for example "monkey_business.doc", "business_funny.xls", "noneofyourbusiness.ppt", "mybusinessonly.mdb".
 
Advanced search options

The advanced options allow you to search files by date, type and size. Click on Search options, select a search option and click on Start to begin the file search.

Once the search has finished, the found files can be found in the Searched folder of directory tree. To recover a searched file proceed as described in section Recovering lost or deleted files.

If you know you are using the right drive and you have performed this file search but your drive does not contain the entire files/directories, there may be lost files on your drive. Therefore proceed as described in the next step "Finding lost data".
 
                   
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