| Author | Message | ||
     Stan Stoler (Msurgeon) |
Using ver. 12.8 I can only recover the top-level folder when I use the Recover/copy command from the browser windows. I have to go through each sub-folder to recover them individually. Any suggestions? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
You don't have to go through each subfolder to recover them individually. You can select multiple subfolders for recovery simultaneously. | ||
| Stan Stoler (Msurgeon) |
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. When I select the top level folder all sub-folders and files are also highlighted. Yet only the top level folder gets recovered. What am I doing wrong? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
> When I select the top level folder all sub-folders and > files are also highlighted I assume you are in a recursive, flat view (or else directories and their contents would not even be visible on the screen simultaneously). When you then select directories, X-Ways Forensics does not include their contents when you try to copy them and also notifies you of that ("Cannot branch into selected directories in a flat view."). Is my assumption correct and did you get that message? It is the very nature of a flat view in X-Ways Forensics that what you are trying to do (breaking out of it into a subdirectory for copying, thereby losing your selection in the original level) is not possible. If you wish to recover/copy files from subdirectories, then either 1) use a non-recursive view (easiest), or 2) in a recursive view (where such files are included already!), you could bring up the Path column, sort by path, and then select the files, or 3) tag the directories you want, opt back to the standard setting where directories are not even included in a recursive view, then select all tagged files and copy them. > When I select the top level folder all sub-folders and > files are also highlighted There is a chance that you actually don't mean "select", but "tag", because only tagging has the effect that you describe. However, the tag status has no effect at all on the Copy/Recover command, so I'm not convinced you mean that. The directory browser's context menu commands apply to selected items, not to tagged items. Long story short: Simply go to the root directory and select+copy the directories you want. Simply don't use a recursive view. |