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Preview File Contents (Recovery Status Check)

This feature is useful when you are not sure whether file data have been overwritten on the drive or not, i.e. whether file is safe for recovery or not. Even DEMO version of the software can do this check. It is recommended to perform this check before purchasing commercial version of the software.

Image files (*.bmp;*.wbmp;*.dib;*.gif;*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.pcx,*.ico;*.tif;*.tiff;*.png;*.wmf) are previewed using built-in preview module, other document types can be previewed using external viewer (like Microsoft Word) or built-in Hex/Text viewer.

For example if you want to preview MyDoc.DOC file and do have an application being able to open *.DOC files installed, file will be rendered and previewed using this application. If you do NOT have an application being able to open *.DOC files installed, file will be previewed in the default built-in Hex/Text viewer.

To preview file contents (and thus check its recovery status):

1. Find and select the file in the Active@ File Recovery
2. Run Preview command by one of the following methods:

• Click Preview button on the toolbar , or
• Right-click the file, and then click Preview menu item from the context menu

3. Preview window will appear and you can see first page of your document.

Note

If file data have been overwritten on the drive, most likely the file cannot be previewed: you will see warning message, and file will be previewed in Hex format.

Note

For Preview mode to be available, File Preview component needs to be selected while software installation. If this component has not been installed, Preview button will be greyed out and inaccessible. The same could happen if MFC42.DLL that has been used by previewer is not located in the system folders.

Important 

Avoid previewing large files! For previewing purpose file needs to be recovered and placed to temporary storage. Then built-in (or external) previewer starts. When you have enough resources, temporary file data are kept in memory, however if not - some temporary data could be written onto the drive and there might be a chance of overwriting your original deleted data.

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