R-Studio for Mac: version history
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:02 pm
Part 1
R-Studio for Mac 7.3.191259 Thu Dec 14, 2023
New features
The Technician/T80+ version
+ Some means to open deleted encrypted volumes have been added. This is especially useful for encrypted APFS volumes.
Improvements
* The Unlock encrypted drive dialog box shows now the BitLocker's Recovery Key Identifier.
* The compression speed has been increased for the rdi image type.
* Support for unicode symbols in the upper range (greater than FFFF) like Chinese symbols, emoji, etc has been improved.
Bugfixes
- The Known File Types button on the Scan dialog box may have become disabled when the Extra Search for Known File Types option was disabled. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have occasionally crashed when an old flash device was changed to a new one. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
- It was impossible to select a remote computer in the BitLocker's Select external key file dialog box (the Unlock by key file... and Load from a binary file... buttons). Fixed.
- Files with default names were incorrectly processed while saving logs, system dumps, etc. Fixed.
- When a flash drive was disconnected from, and a new flash drive was connected to, a remote computer, Open file... dialog boxes showed the old flash drives until it was clicked. The Refresh button didn't help. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when the Enable Write option in the Settings was changed when the Hexadecimal Editor/View was running. Fixed.
The Technician/T80+ version
- There were discrepancies between final data on the Finished multipass imaging window and data in the Log. Fixed.
Hexadecimal Viewer/Editor
R-Studio for Mac 7.3.191246 Wed Sep 27, 2023
New features
+ Support for the ReFS 3.10 file system.
+ Support for Bitlocker Drive Encryption. R-Studio can decrypt both BitLocker Drive Encryption and BitLocker ToGo volumes using either a password, recovery key, and a .bek file. R-Studio Technician/T80+ can also use FVEK (Full Volume Encryption Key) or VMK (Volume Master Key) data for decryption.
+ Support for VHD/VHDX/VDI disk image formats. All R-Studio versions can load these files, R-Studio Corporate and Technician/T80+ can create them.
+ Read-only support for the dmg files (Apple Disk Image: all versions ), e01/(ewf) files (Expert Witness File Format: R-Studio Technician/T80+), and aff files (Advanced Forensic Format: R-Studio Technician/T80+).
+ Support for creation of encrypted RDR image files (the main disk image format for all R-TT, Inc products).
+ Support for SCSI/NVME translation for external USB/NVME boxes. Among other things this makes it possible to obtain S.M.A.R.T. attributes for such devices.
Improvements
* NTFS deduplication processing has been improved.
* Passwords can be shown in their dialog boxes.
* It's now possible to mark/unmark empty folders through Find/Mark dialog box using the Mark All/Unmark All command.
* R-Studio now shows multi-pass imaging statistics after the imaging process is completed.
* All data from the Properties tab can be copied in one command.
R-Studio Technician/T80+
* Multi-pass Imaging Phases can be enabled/disabled on-the-fly.
* Symlinks can be exported to custom recovery lists either as real folders or as symlinks.
* Search for files has been added to the HTML custom recovery lists.
Changes
= New icons for storage devices.
Bugfixes
- The program might have crashed when showing unicode symbols in the upper range (greater than FFFF) like Chinese symbols, emoji, etc. Fixed.
- The program may have frozen rarely while opening ext fs partitions. Fixed.
- R-Studio couldn't correctly load multi-file images if their parts are located in different places. Fixed
- R-Studio may have aborted data recovery when the Skip button was clicked under some rare circumstances. Fixed.
- Files with the question mark "?" in their names could not be saved to files recovery lists. Fixed.
- Bad sectors weren't saved to mask presets. Fixed.
- A progress bar may have rarely crashed under specific circumstances: closing dialog box and showing a warning message at the same time. Fixed.
- Sometimes, the device root wasn't marked as Root which led to problems in moving around files. Fixed.
- Folder-links may have been marked incorrectly when a recovery lists with file IDs was loaded. Fixed.
- Moving around links to folders which are actually files may have been incorrect. Fixed.
- Several bugs connected with symlink processing on UNIX file systems have been fixed.
- Detection of cyclic symlinks may have been incorrect. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic and minor internal bugs have been fixes.
R-Studio for Mac 7.2.191161 Fri May 26, 2023
Bugfixes
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 7.2.191153 Sun May 14, 2023
New features
+ Data storage types (SSD, HDD, USB, etc) info has been added to the Drives pane.
+ Search/mark/mask can be specified by bad sectors.
+ All S.M.A.R.T. attributes can be copied through one action (The Copy All button on the S.M.A.R.T. panel).
+ The Options tab is added to the Wiping progress indicator.
R-Studio Technician:
+ Search/mark/mask can be specified by runtime imaging status.
+ The creation time and accessed time data has been added to the forensic report.
+ New file formats for recovery lists have been added: HTML, XML, JSON, and CSV. The new formats, especially the HTML one, allow the customers to easily edit recovery lists in their web browsers and then send edited lists back.
+ Disk scan has become available during multi-pass imaging.
+ A completed runtime image can now be either resumed or re-written.
+ A new option "Skip files with bad sectors" has been added to runtime imaging of individual folders/files.
+ A new option "Unused clusters only" has been added to the multi-pass and complete runtime imaging options.
Improvements
* Any files from Extra Found Files will not be recovered if there are their duplicates in the file systems (Root) when the Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files option is selected. Earlier this option took effect only for recovered files.
* Several tabs can now be moved by dragging them with the mouse.
* Processing of various non-printable characters in file names has been improved.
* Hints for shortcut menu items are now shown in the status bar.
* Search for and opening of file regions is now faster.
* Last used paths are now saved in several new fields.
* The Cross link info has been added to the Get Info panel.
* Saving and loading of Broken File Name and Hidden Attribute parameters have been improved.
R-Studio Technician:
* Progress display for the I/O monitor window has been improved.
* A data grid has been added to the I/O Monitor window.
* A color scheme and legend have been improved on the I/O Monitor window.
* A sector map window may be opened directly from the message about successful opening the sector map file.
* Speed for runtime imaging of individual files has been significantly increased, especially for many small files.
Changes
= Save/Load File Names menu items and commands have been renamed to Export/Import Recovery List.
= The FileID files parameter was moved to the top control box on the Find/Mark dialog box.
Bugfixes
- Bad sectors and Runtime image parameters could not be included into file mask presets. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when the same partition got reopened in the same tab. Fixed.
- Several states of Recovery Chances may have been found incorrectly for FAT file systems. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed during multipass imaging with reverse reading and enabled scan. Fixed.
- An incorrect message "There is nothing to process using the specified settings" may have appeared when the disk object had bad sectors. Fixed.
- Data read speed was enormously slow for multipass imaging of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when an unmounted CDROM drive was selected. Fixed.
- Data form the drive's first sectors wasn't included into the image when creating an multipass image of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- Files were not always recovered from the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- Many cosmetic buxfixes in R-Studio and R-Studio Agent.
- The I/O Monitor window showed incorrect info after resizing. Fixed.
- An unnecessary message about post actions may have appeared in email notifications. Fixed.
- User's file type file may have been ignored during program startup. Fixed.
- R-Studio showed ? in names in links as small squares. Fixed.
- R-Studio couldn't find formatted exFAT partitions when they contained only root folders (without subfoders) and their roots was rewritten. Fixed.
- Unstable sectors were treated as bad. Fixed.
- An unnecessary tooltip may have appeared in the I/O Monitor window. Fixed.
- Sometimes incorrect marks may have appeared in the top level of the folder tree. Fixed.
- Incorrect data may have appeared in the Accessed Time column. Fixed.
- Some fixes in the algorithm of recovery chances estimation.
- The path to runtime image was processed incorrectly for runtime imaging on its dialog box. Fixed.
- Hardlinked files may have been recovered incorrectly. Fixed.
- The Estimated size value on the Create Image dialog window may have not changed when the Compression ratio slider was moved. Fixed.
- Files/folders with non-Latin names were not marked after recovery lists were loaded. Fixed.
- No read indicator (R) was shown on the I/O Monitors window while skipping slow areas. Fixed.
- All S.M.A.R.T. icons changed to green after a runtime image was connected. Fixed.
- Names of files which contained something similar to HTML tags may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- Nothing was selected for the Copying mode options on the Smart drive copy tab in Drives Copy Wizard. Fixed.
- It was possible to clear the Enable write option even when runtime imaging was activated. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when file sorting tabs were switched. Fixed.
- The Runtime image status and Bad sectors columns were sorted incorrectly. Fixed.
- Reaction to incorrect Empty Space Size values in the RAID reconstruction module was dubious. Fixed.
- Bad sectors and Runtime image parameters could not be included into file mask presets. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when the same partition got reopened in the same tab. Fixed.
- Several states of Recovery Chances may have been found incorrectly for FAT file systems. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed during multipass imaging with reverse reading and enabled scan. Fixed.
- An incorrect message "There is nothing to process using the specified settings" may have appeared when the disk object had bad sectors. Fixed.
- Data read speed was enormously slow for multipass imaging of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- Data form the drive's first sectors wasn't included into the image when creating an multipass image of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- Files were not always recovered from the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- Many cosmetic buxfixes in R-Studio.
R-Studio for Mac 7.1.191047 Fri Sep 16, 2022
New features:
The following items have been added:
+ A new command Close All Images to close all opened images.
+ Support for the XFS file system;
+ Support for Intel Software RAIDs;
+ Data wiping for drives.
Additionally for the Technician versions:
+ Runtime imaging for individual folders/files;
+ Imaging of drive's file system (FS map) only;
+ Drive and file maps for all supported devices;
+ Drive imaging to a physical drive rather than to an image file;
+ New file hash functions sha1 and sha256 to forensic logs.
Improvements:
* Discovery of symlink targets has been improved.
* Info about multi-pass imaging phases has been added to the log.
* A new option Check sectors status has been added to the Recheck Recovery Chances dialog box.
* Estimation of recovery chances has been improved.
* The ISO image file type has been added to the File Types list.
* During execution of the Complete runtime image, I/O Monitor now shows the read speed of the disk rather than read/write speed.
* File System error message codes are expanded for deletion/move errors.
The Technician version
* Post Actions (Shut down the computer on task completion & E-mail options) have been added to the Options window.
Changes:
= The default system info file names have been changed to R-Studio-SystemInfo-yyyy-MM-dd.
= The I/O Options button has been renamed to the Options button.
The Technician version
= The Forensic Log Settings dialog box has been moved to the Forensic Log Settings tab on the Recover dialog box.
Bugfixes
- R-Studio may have processed huge ext4fs file systems for too long time. Fixed.
- It was impossible to stop disk actions with malfunctioning disks. Fixed.
- Not all information was copied from the Get Info window. Fixed.
- The Files and Folders checkboxes were disabled by default on the Find/Mark dialog box. Fixed.
- File search and mask returned incorrect results for the Modification date. Fixed.
- The Yes to All and No to All buttons appeared on the Save scan info dialog box even when only one tab was opened. Fixed.
- Missing disks added to Virtual Volume Set or Virtual Mirror couldn't be edit correctly. Fixed.
- Some partition and drive actions could be performed during disk operations like disk scan, RAID consistency check, and so on. Fixed.
- No progress bar was shown during manual update. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen while executing the Recover All Files command. Fixed.
- File sorting may have changed to default (Real file system) when the Show Files command was executed for an already opened tab, or the tab was moved, etc. Fixed.
- Child objects of a wiped drive/partition were not automatically deleted from the Device view pane. Fixed.
- Sometimes, R-Studio may have crashed on close. Fixed.
- The Close All command appeared in the Partition tab shortcut menu even only one tab was opened. Fixed.
- Questionable folders may have disappeared in the panels after Rescan Folder. Fixed.
- Existing zero-sized files had the green mark for recovery chances. Fixed.
- The Preview command was active in the Find Results panel for zero-sized files. Fixed.
- A negative offset may have been entered into the I/O Monitor field. Fixed.
- An image of a password-protected APFS container could not be opened even with the correct password. Fixed.
- File marking results may have been different for different time formats. Fixed.
- The information in the Disk Properties tab was updated incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Studio crashed when the byte-to-byte imaging was selected in a system with only one disk. Fixed.
- Masked marked files were incorrectly counted. Fixed.
- Tabs may have closed without a due warning. Fixed.
- Deleted files were not marked with the red cross in the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- The Recover Marked button may have been inactive after marking files using the Find/Mark dialog box and when the Skip files with bad sectors option is selected on the Recover dialog box. Fixed.
- The Recover Marked shortcut menu item and button remained inactive when a file was marked for recovery in the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- When there was not enough room for a large file and a new destination was assigned, the leftover of the file left in the first place. Fixed.
- Recovery froze and could not be resumed if a file name and path appeared too long. Fixed.
- Recovery froze from the Extensions tab when the Restore folder structure and Restore from root options were selected on the Recovery dialog box. Fixed.
- It was possible to perform many Drag&Drop operations while performing various drive tasks. Fixed.
- The OK button was active when the Password field was empty on the Enter the password dialog box. Fixed.
- Data on virtual block RAIDs with disks with bad sectors may have read too slowly. Fixed.
- An RDR-type image could not be correctly removed from a virtual RAID. Fixed.
- RAID-connected tabs didn't close when the RAID parameters were altered. Fixed.
- A Virtual Block RAID object may have frozen when another RAID parent was added. Fixed.
- Many cosmetic, wrong messages, and localization bugs have been fixed.
The Technician version
- The Map of file command was active in the left pane of the R-Studio's panel. Fixed.
- It was impossible to disable all additional phases for multi-pass imaging in order to enable only the main one. Fixed.
- R-Studio performed Slow areas and Retrying phases of multi-pass imaging even when when they were disabled. Fixed.
- R-Studio threw a Corrupt data error message for ddrescue map files larger than 64kB. Fixed.
- It was impossible to perform sector map operations for incomplete images. Fixed.
- R-Studio Technician for Mac/Linux couldn't be re-registered into the T80+ version. Fixed
- Multi-pass images with several takes were created incorrectly if the Perform reading in reverse order if possible option was selected. Fixed.
- I/O Monitor showed read speed incorrectly. Fixed.
- A sector map file was being written not as often as necessary while completing runtime imaging. Fixed.
Text/hexadecimal editor
- The Hexadecimal editor didn't close an opened disk when disk wiping started. Fixed.
- The content of the UNICODE and UNICODE+ columns may have merged. These columns could not be resized. Fixed.
- An unnecessary inquiry about overwriting a file after executing the Tools - Save to Binary File... or Save to Hexadecimal file command may have appeared. Fixed.
- The Find previous command and reverse search may have executed incorrectly. Fixed.
- The Select From/To procedure didn't work correctly with the Search command.
- The search command may have been executed incorrectly when the Not equal option was enabled. Fixed.
- The Append command may have been executed incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 7.0.7009 Wed Mar 30, 2022
New features:
+ Several disk objects can be opened in one tab. All these objects can be simultaneously searched for files, their files can be marked and recovered.
+ Drive imaging can be interrupted and then resumed. When the user stops an imaging process, they have two options: to discard an already created partial image file or to save it to resume drive imaging later. Created partial images can be loaded, too.
+ Some extended options have been added to the drive operation progress windows. They can be altered on-the-fly.
+ File types can be searched for on the Known File Types dialog box.
+ Support for the VMDK virtual disk format (open: all version, creation: Technician).
+ Support for the ReFS 3.7 file system (Windows Server 2022).
R-Studio Technician:
+ A new license type T80+. R-Studio T80+ is equal in its features to full-fledged R-Studio Technician, runs for a certain period of time, and during its validity period can be upgraded to R-Studio Technician for the initial price difference. The license price of 1 USD per day is very affordable for small businesses, computer repair shops, and individual data recovery contractors.
+ R-Studio Technician is now available on our public web pages and can be tested in the Demo mode.
+ Runtime imaging. R-Studio creates drive images in parallel with other drive reading operations. Next time when R-Studio accesses data from imaged drive areas it gets the data from the runtime image.
+ Multi-pass imaging. Images from problematic drives can be created through several phases reading data from good areas first and from bad and slow areas later. Such approach allows for extracting maximum possible amount of data even from quite faulty drives.
+ Support for sector maps, both in the R-Studio's format and in the third-party software ddrescue and HDDSuperClone formats.
+ I/O Monitor allows the user to inspect read/write operations in real time.
A full-featured hexadecimal editor is now available in the Technician/T80+ and Corporate versions.
Improvements:
* Support for APFS sealed volumes created by macOS Big Sur and later.
* R-Studio warns the user when an APFS disk is hardware encrypted or its decryption is possible only by using the iCloud account.
* File system recognition has been improved for scanned APFS file system.
* Processing of encrypted APFS partitions has been improved.
* Support for macOS file vault has been improved.
* Processing of the .Trash folder has been improved for macOS file systems.
* Read/write operations have been greatly accelerated for block RAIDs with small block sizes. E.g., the read speed for a 512b block has been increased from 5MB/sec to 100MB/sec.
* Read operations has been accelerated for block RAIDs by paralleling I/O operations for parent disks. E.g.,the read speed for a 3HD RAID5 has been increased from 100MB/sec to 190MB/sec.
* When a user opens an already opened partition it brings the user to the corresponding tab.
* Option processing for the Find/Mark dialog box has been improved.
* R-Studio shows now S.M.A.R.T. attributes for NVME SSD devices.
* Detection of S.M.A.R.T. attributes have been improved for new hard drive models.
* Detection of Disk identity parameters (Vendor name, Product name, Firmware version, Serial number) has been improved.
* Symlink processing has been improved, including the Mark all and Unmark all commands.
* Execution of the Save All File Names / Load File Names commands has been accelerated.
* File type icons have been added to the Find Results (Find All Files) panel.
* Message display in the Log View panels has been improved.
* Recheck Recovery Chances has been improved.
* A warning message appears when the user tries to close tabs with open disks/partitions.
* The recovered part of a file will remain when the recovery process has been interrupted.
Bugfixes:
- The rdr image for an APFS container couldn't be parsed automatically and required refreshing. Fixed.
- An empty string appeared in the Drive type field in the Properties tab for an APFS volume. Fixed. R-Studio shows the "APFS Volume" string now.
- R-Studio may have crashed while enumerating files on APFS file systems. Fixed.
- Metadata FS snapshot for a recognized APFS file system could not be saved. Fixed.
- When the recover options Restore folder structure and Restore from root were selected, the original Modified and Accessed timestamps were changed to the time of file recovery. Fixed.
- Symlinked folders remained marked when their target were unmarked. Fixed.
- Files from symlinked folders may have recovered to incorrect places. Fixed.
- The Advanced Scan dialog box may have shown the Scan area parameter incorrectly after second clicks on the Advanced button. Fixed.
- Strings on Properties panel were selected incorrectly. Fixed.
- The Find/Mark dialog box could not show all opened partitions correctly when they were many. Fixed.
- R-Studio showed files in renamed folders as deleted, although they were not. Fixed.
- R-Studio may freeze when opening a RAID created from disk images. Fixed.
- The Logical Sector Size parameters may have appeared twice on the IDE Properties tab. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen when creating an image of a recognized partition. Fixed.
- Files didn't appear in the Find Results panel after they were unmasked if file sorting tabs were switched.
- R-Studio may not have found a file by its exact size. Fixed.
- FAT cross-linked folders may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Zero-sized files could be viewed in the built-in Text/Hexadecimal Editor and file previewer. Fixed.
- The FAT32 bitlocker to go couldn't be recognized. Fixed.
- An image file from a remote computer could not be saved to either the remote computer or local one. Fixed.
- S.M.A.R.T. for Intel NVME devices may have been displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic fixes.
R-Studio for Mac 6.8.6047 Wed Jul 07, 2021
Bugfixes:
- Disk mount may haven't been working in the version for old Macs. Fixed.
- Check for update didn't work in the Technician version. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.8.6041/6043 Thu Jun 17, 2021
New features:
+ Native support for Apple silicon (the Apple M1 chip) has been added.
+ Support for APFS container layout on the Apple silicon computers has been
added.
+ Several file systems (the main and several reformatted ones) can now be
found on one partition, if their traces remain in the boot records.
Improvements:
* The program interface has been improved for High Sierra and Big Sur macOS.
* APFS file systems and APFS Fusion Drives can be recognized on a pure hard
drive without protective GPT partitions.
Bugfixes:
- The program may have gone into a loop and frozen at the last stage of partition recognition. Fixed.
- The program may sometimes have frozen when recognizing the file system. Fixed.
- When a partition without a file system on a MBR disk was formatted, the partition divided into a not-equal volume and partition. The were shown as two different objects. Fixed.
- When R-Studio found a direct volume on a flash drive, it didn't search for deleted partitions. Fixed.
- Sometimes email could not be correctly delivered in the Technician version on the Big Sur macOS.
R-Studio for Mac 6.7.6026 Sun Jan 03, 2021
New features:
+ Virtual objects, like virtual RAIDs and regions, can be connected to the system as read-only virtual drives. Such drives are visible in and accessible to the system and other programs. (Technician version)
+ Folders, which are symbolic links to other folders (targets), can be shown as links, without showing the content of the targets. (Technician version)
+ Support for deduplication in the NTFS file system created by Windows Server 2019 has been added.
+ Support for the ReFS file system created by Windows Server 2019, including deduplication, has been added.
+ R-Studio Emergency can now run in 64-bit mode and use all available RAM to recover large hard drives.
Improvements:
* The program now recognizes an APFS partition with an erased main files B-Tree.
* Recognition of NTFS file systems with some wiped parts has been improved.
* Icons have been redesigned for better resizing on HiDPI screens.
* Recognition of fat16/32 folders with small numbers (1-2) of files has been improved.
* Recognition of ext2/3/4 partitions with block sizes <=1024 bytes has been improved.
* Folder links comparison has been added for recognized ext2/3/4 file systems to improve the recognition of very small file systems (1 group/cylinder block) and the quality of recognized partitions.
Bugfixes:
- The program may have frozen during the opening or scan of some images. Fixed.
- The warning that a mask was applied my have not shown on tab titles. Fixed.
- NTFS file systems with the cluster size of 64k may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Scan info for objects found during the fast scan for lost partitions may have been saved/loaded incorrectly (incorrect parent objects). Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugfixes.
R-Studio for Mac 6.6.6017 Wed Oct 28, 2020
New features:
+ Fast search for lost partitions has been added.
+ Support for the ISO9660 file system used in CDs/DVDs/ISO images has been added.
+ Support for the UStar/Tar/CPIO/Pax file systems used in tape storage devices has been added (Technician version).
+ Symbolic links may be hidden on the File Mask dialog box.
+ Symbolic links may be hidden by default on the Settings panel in the Technician version.
Improvements:
* R-Studio warns that a non-default port is selected for remote connection to R-Studio Agent.
* Extended control over file preview has been added. Files can now be marked for recovery, recovered, etc., directly from the built-in File previewer.
* Extended control and display of scanned and unscanned disk areas has been added.
* A special mark has been added for a folder with marked files that are hidden by the applied mask.
* A complete overhaul of symbolic and other links processing has been made.
* An option to recover only marked files matching the applied file mask or all marked files has been added to the Recover dialog box.
* The algorithm that estimates chances for successful file recovery has been improved.
* Interface localizations have been improved.
Bugfixes:
- R-Studio may have sometimes failed to find NTFS partitions without boot records. Fixed.
- File previewer didn't correctly display filenames with right to left scripts. Fixed.
- Sometimes it was hard to distinguish between font and highlight colors. Fixed.
- R-Studio treated folders with files hidden by an applied mask as empty folders and didn't show them when the Hide empty folders option is selected. Fixed.
- Empty folders may have been incorrectly recovered. Fixed.
- Mark/unmark records from file recovery lists were applied only to files visible after a file mask was applied. Fixed. Now the user is asked to apply the records to all files or only to files visible after a file mask was applied.
- R-Studio may have crashed when the Recover All Files command was started. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen when a shortcut menu was invoked for an incremental image without one part. Fixed.
- R-Studio parsed only the GPT partition table, even when it was invalid, when both LDM/MBR and LDM/GPT were present on the disk. Fixed.
- The Recover marked command was inactive if marked files were invisible due to the applied file mask. Fixed.
- The Copy information command copied the information from the previous file when the information of the selected file didn't exist. Fixed.
- The Expand All command for the folder tree may have frozen on partitions with large numbers of folders. Fixed.
- The number of marked files may have been displayed incorrectly when the view was changed from Real, by Extension, by Time, etc. Fixed.
- Sometimes R-Studio may have crashed during file recovery. Fixed.
- Sometimes the built-in previewer may have frozen when showing damaged files. Fixed.
- Scan time and progress may have been displayed incorrectly while scanning several regions. Fixed.
- Disk scan may have crashed or frozen during the process and an attempt to stop it. Fixed.
- The Rescan the entire disk command may have failed for an already scanned disk. Fixed.
- The Scan dialog didn't size units when it was closed and then opened again. Fixed.
A lot of symlink processing bugs have been fixed, two being worst:
- If there was a symlink to another folder in a place to store recovered files, and there was a folder in the data for recovery which name coincided with that symlink's folder, the recovered data was written to the symlink's folder. That may have resulted in complete loss of files stored in the symlink's folder. Fixed. Now R-Studio saves recovered files only within the path(s) specified for storing recovered files.
- When files were marked and then umarked in a folder that was a symlink, the files in its target were unmarked, too. Fixed.
- Disс information wasn't renewed when the CD was ejected and the Refresh command was executed. Fixed.
- R-Studio tried to access an attached CD/DVD drive during device refresh which may have resulted in temporal freeze. Fixed. Now R-Studio accesses a CD/DVD drive only when it works with it. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have temporally frozen while switching between the Real, Extension, XXX Time views for partitions with many folders. Fixed.
- Many internal bugfixes to improve program's efficiency.
- Some cosmetics bugfixes.
- Hexadecimal editor may have frozen while opening a multi-volume image. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.5.5939/5943 Sat Apr 04, 2020
New features:
+ Deleted partitions can be instantly found, without long scan.
+ Files can be recovered or marked for recovery directly from File previewer.
+ The number of read tries for bad sectors can be changed during a disk
operation.
Improvements:
* FAT folders partially damaged within sectors are also enumerated.
Bugfixes:
- No messages appeared in the log when a scan process was interrupted. Fixed.
- When R-Studio for Mac accessed data inside an already opened part of a multi-part image, a request to open this part may have appeared. Fixed.
- A multi-part image may have been opened incorrectly if the parts were small. Fixed.
- Log information may have been incorrect when recovery was interrupted. Fixed.
- When opening the next in turn part of a multi-part image, it was possible to click the OK button without entering the required file name. The part was lost and no more inquires were issued. Fixed.
- Sometimes the program may have sent a wrong message about not enough space when the image was written to alternative paths. Fixed.
- The Advanced Scan dialog box may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Studio for Mac may have frozen or crashed while opening file systems. Fixed.
- The best copy of the FAT table for FAT12/16 file systems was determined incorrectly when it was determined sector-wise. Fixed.
- The path dialog box on the remote computer may have delayed for a long time if there were unaccessible connected network drives. Fixed.
- R-Studio for Mac may have found waste copies of GPT partitions if a GPT disk was reformatted to an LDM/MBR disk. Fixed.
- The program may have found some garbage GPT partition entries when those entries were re-written. Fixed. Now R-Studio for Mac checks their validity and cancels invalid records.
- Partitions could not be copied to an HDD with several partition tables (i.g., a GPT table and some deleted ones). Fixed.
- An extended debug file system snapshot could not be saved for disks with unsupported encryption methods. Fixed.
- Several small internal and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
Text/hexadecimal editor:
- The offset field in the GoTo dialog box may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- Strings may have been truncated on the Find Results panel. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.4.5871 Wed Dec 25, 2019
New features:
+ Support for the compression algorithms lzvn and lzfse has been added. They are used in the new HFS+/APFS versions.
Bugfixes:
- R-Studio may have crashed when creating an ext4 FS metadata image. Or it may have created it slowly. Fixed.
- R-Studio may sometimes have crashed when opening heavily corrupted file systems. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.4.5833 Sat Nov 23, 2019
Bugfixes:
- R-Studio.app could not be upgraded by dragging it into the Application folder. The previous version had to be moved manually to .Trash and only then the new one could be installed. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed while analyzing damaged Ext4FS file systems. Fixed.
- Sometimes program didn't switch to new alternative paths when it ran out of free space on the selected device. Fixed.
- Data in the Find All in the Text/Hexadecimal editor wasn't fully shown until the mouse was dragged over them. Sometimes the panel may have frozen. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.4.5797 Sat Nov 09, 2019
New Features:
+ Support the APFS file system created by macOS Catalina has been added.
+ Support of the APFS Fusion Drive has been added.
+ Several paths can be immediately specified for multiple-volume images.
+ Automatic recognition and assembly of complex disk manager objects whose components are also various disk manager objects. This may be useful for data recovery from various NAS devices.
Technician version:
+ Alternative paths can be specified for places to store recovered files and images.
+ Post Action options have been added for unattended operations:
. Automatic shutdown once lengthy operations have completed: file recovery, disk scan, and disk imaging. When this option is specified, R-Studio checks that all relevant information (scan info, RAID layouts, etc) has been saved and advanced recovery features specified.
. Automatic email notification regarding operation success/failure.
Improvements:
* Updated macOS driver to mount R-Drive Image type (.rdr) images.
* Search for deleted files has been improved for the Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 file systems.
* File system reconstruction has been improved for APFS partitions.
* The Open folder when done option has been added to the Recover dialog box.
* File enumeration speed has been increased by several dozen times for Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 partitions.
* Folder scan to improve folder tree reconstruction on recognized Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 partitions.
* Ext4fs extent reconstruction for large deleted files even if they are not in the file system journal.
* Network data recovery speed has been increased by several dozen times.
* Text/hexadecimal editor shows the position on partition for resident files on the Ext4, UFS, HFS+, and APFS file systems, and for compressed files on the HFS+ file systems.
Bug-fixes:
- R-Studio may have opened some partitions with large numbers of files for a long time. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have crashed during performing recheck recovery chances. Fixed.
- Volume labels may have been detected incorrectly for UFS1 partitions. Fixed.
- Idle RAID sequences may have appeared when a custom RAID was created. Those sequences could not be deleted. Fixed.
- When an invalid RAID table was applied, the program didn't throw a warning. Fixed.
- An incorrect minimum number of RAID table lines may have appeared for RAID0 and RAID4. Fixed.
- The cursor may have moved incorrectly when editing the RAID table. Fixed.
- Unit fields (TB, GB, MB) in the RAID editor may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Sometimes, R-Studio may have selected an incorrect folder for cross-linked files on FAT file systems. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.3.5571 Tue May 21, 2019
New features:
+ Get Info panel has been added to the Content pane. Detailed information about a selected file. Extended file information in the Technician version like disk regions, overlapping files, etc.
+ Advanced options have been added to file recovery lists in the Technician version: specific file system info, overlapping files, disk regions, etc.
Improvements:
* Files in Extra Found Files (raw files) can now be automatically excluded from recovery if they are duplicates of files found in the real file system.
* Support for NTFS cluster sizes from 128KB to 2MB has been added.
* The algorithm for estimation of file recovery probability has been improved.
* Memory usage has been optimized and debugged.
* The Reset button has been added to the RAID Parents tab. It resets RAID parameters to those set by the Apply button.
* LVM processing has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- R-Studio may have temporally frozen when opening an NTFS partition with many compressed files. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have opened APFS partitions with many files for a long time. Fixed.
- The Find Previous Version of the File command may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Mask presets may have loaded incorrectly. Fixed.
- Date may have changed incorrectly in the File Mask dialog box. Fixed.
- Multiple files that occupy the same sector may have been shown incorrectly in Text/hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
- If files were manually unmarked, they could not be marked for recovery using the File/Mark dialog box. Fixed.
- Existing files may have been shown as deleted in cross-linked folders on FAT32 partitions. Fixed.
- Some file dates may have been saved to File Mask presets incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have crashed when opening disk images. Fixed.
- The Show Files command in Text/hexadecimal editor may have stopped working if file region enumeration was interrupted by the user. Fixed.
- The Details/Icons view may have switched incorrectly when switching opened partitions. Fixed.
- Units in the Size fields on the Find/Mark dialog box were always reset to Bytes. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen or crashed when the Reopen Drive Files button was quickly clicked several times. Fixed.
- Sometimes mdadm RAIDs could not be automatically assembled from images. Fixed.
- The Apply changes immediately option could be enabled only on the second attempt. Fixed.
- Any changes in fthe Block order table defaulted all other RAID parameters. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen when one LDM disk was disconnected and the Reassemble button was clicked.
- R-Studio may have crashed when Text/Hexadecimal was opened from the Block information window when working with DDI. Fixed.
- Empty sequences were generated in the Sequences window when the Custom RAID type was selected. Those sequences could not be deleted. Fixed.
- The last valid RAID block order table was saved rather than the current invalid table. Fixed.
- The Get Info window showed wrong file info when sorting had been changed. Fixed.
- Clicking an empty space on the Get Info window opened Hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
- Files remained marked when files were recovered with the Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files option enabled. Fixed.
- Not all information on Overlapping files and Regions when saving file names. Fixed.
- The Find/Mark dialog box didn't preserve selections for the Look At Files/Folders option. Fixed.
- A file and folder may have the same ID on the time/extension sorting tabs. Clicking such object may have resulted in jumping to another object with the same ID. For example, to a file with an ID randomly coinciding with the ID of a folder. Fixed.
- Saving file names for marked files didn't save names for files with links in their paths. Only link name was saved without files in the related folder. Fixed.
- Some small interface and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.2.5451 Sat Feb 02, 2019
New features:
+ Estimation of chances for successful file recovery
+ Recovery of names and paths for files deleted to Recycle Bin and Trash
+ Support for ReFS 3.4 file system
Improvements:
* A complete redesign of the Find/Mark dialog box.
* The parsing and reconstruction of the FAT32 and NTFS file systems has been improved.
* The parsing of scanned APFS partitions has been improved, especially for large APFS file systems, for which the decrease of parsing time may reach several thousand times.
Bug-fixes:
- The program may have crashed while recovering damaged UFS2.
- It was impossible to mark files using the Find/Mark command if those files had been unmarked manually.
- Time stamps on the Define File Mask dialog box may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Time stamps on the presents on the Define File Mask dialog box may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Values in the Size From field on the Find/Mark dialog box was constantly switching to bytes.
- File previewer didn't work on some Linux distros. Fixed.
- The Find Previous Version of the File command may have not worked. Fixed.
- Large ext4 file systems (60+TB) may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Sometimes the program may have crashed or frozen during file enumeration and disk scan. Fixed.
- The program may have written data to network drives incorrectly. Fixed.
- Sometimes file systems on automatically created virtual RAIDs may have been created incorrectly when the RAID parents were disk images. Fixed.
- Some encrypted APFS disks could not be opened. Fixed.
- No files (recovered, scan info, image) could be save to connected network drives or to any place defined as a UNC path (\\server\share\path). Fixed.
- The View/Edit command status (enable/disable) may have been incorrectly set. Fixed.
- Details/Small/Medium/Large Icons button status wasn't preserved during switching between opened file panels. Fixed.
- Program Uninstall wasn't digitally signed. Fixed.
- The Ignore file mask option was working incorrectly. Fixed.
- Some corrections have been made to various localizations.
- Some cosmetic fixes.
R-Studio for Mac 6.1.5347 Mon Oct 15, 2018
Bug-fixes
- Some encrypted APFS disks could not be opened. Fixed.
- No files (recovered, scan info, image) could be save to connected network drives or to any place defined as a UNC path (\\server\share\path). Fixed.
- The View/Edit command status (enable/disable) may have been incorrectly set. Fixed.
- Details/Small/Medium/Large Icons button status wasn't preserved during switching between opened file panels. Fixed.
- Program Uninstall wasn't digitally signed. Fixed.
- The Ignore file mask option was working incorrectly. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic fixes.
- Some corrections have been made to various localizations.
R-Studio for Mac 6.1.5321 Fri Aug 03, 2018
New features:
+ Support has been added for S.M.A.R.T. attributes for NVME devices.
+ Support has been added for disk S.M.A.R.T. attributes under High Sierra.
Improvements:
* Processing of NTFS $BitMap file has been improved.
* Support has been improved for disks with several previous partition layouts (MBR, GPT, etc.)
Bug-fixes:
- The S.M.A.R.T. panel may have disappeared after disk refresh. Fixed.
- Several bugs have been fixed for icon display.
R-Studio for Mac 6.1 build 5307 Fri Jul 20, 2018
New features:
+ A completely overhauled file previewer which can now show picture tiles and first frames of video files as icons, and supports a large number of video/audio/graphic/document file formats. These files can now be played back without their respective applications installed.
Improvements:
* Processing of APFS file systems has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- File enumeration on huge APFS file systems may have been slow. Fixed.
- Non-resident symlinks may have been parsed incorrectly on NTFS file systems. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when an advanced mask was used. Fixed.
- The Parents tab may have disappeared when an rdr-compatible image was added to a virtual RAID. Fixed.
- The same text with a different letter case may have been converted to the initial in the Find/Mark dialog box. For example, if the first search was for Alex* and the second one for ALEX*, the latter may have been automatically converted to Alex*. Fixed.
- File mark in a marked folder using the Look in From current folder / Current folder options may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Request to save changes was always thrown in the Edit User's File Types window even when all changes had been canceled. Fixed.
- Mark/Unmark commands may have worked incorrectly for an empty folder selected in the Folders pane. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.0.5231 Thu Jun 14, 2018
Bug-fixes:
- The RAID Parents panel may have disappeared when an rdr image was added to the RAID. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have crashed when a file mask for a selected file was specified. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.0.5230 Tue May 29, 2018
New features:
+ Support has been added for APFS (including encryption), a new Apple file system introduced in macOS High Sierra.
+ Direct access to the system disk even when Apple's System Integration Protection is enabled.
+ Compressed images (the R-Drive Image type, .rdi) can now be mounted in the system as virtual devices to make them accessible for other software.
Improvements:
* Folder tree reconstruction has been improved for supported file systems.
* User's known file types immediately become marked upon loading.
Bug-fixes:
- When a Reverse RAID had been created for an object and then deleted, the Delete Reverse RAID command remained active for that object, and the Create Reverse RAID command inactive. Fixed.
- Icons of deleted objects may have remained in the Drives panel. Fixed.
- Sometimes the red highlighting of incorrect values may have flashed even when correct values were entered. Fixed.
- The Find Previous button may have remained active when the search reached the last match. When the button was clicked the last match was highlighted again. Fixed. Now the message that the search is over is thrown.
- The Reload User's File Types button on the Setting/Known File Types tab was active even when there was no user's file types loaded. Fixed.
- If the user's known file types were not saved, all known file types may have become unchecked during disk imaging and simultaneous scanning. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen while working with a remote computer. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 7.3.191259 Thu Dec 14, 2023
New features
The Technician/T80+ version
+ Some means to open deleted encrypted volumes have been added. This is especially useful for encrypted APFS volumes.
Improvements
* The Unlock encrypted drive dialog box shows now the BitLocker's Recovery Key Identifier.
* The compression speed has been increased for the rdi image type.
* Support for unicode symbols in the upper range (greater than FFFF) like Chinese symbols, emoji, etc has been improved.
Bugfixes
- The Known File Types button on the Scan dialog box may have become disabled when the Extra Search for Known File Types option was disabled. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have occasionally crashed when an old flash device was changed to a new one. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
- It was impossible to select a remote computer in the BitLocker's Select external key file dialog box (the Unlock by key file... and Load from a binary file... buttons). Fixed.
- Files with default names were incorrectly processed while saving logs, system dumps, etc. Fixed.
- When a flash drive was disconnected from, and a new flash drive was connected to, a remote computer, Open file... dialog boxes showed the old flash drives until it was clicked. The Refresh button didn't help. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when the Enable Write option in the Settings was changed when the Hexadecimal Editor/View was running. Fixed.
The Technician/T80+ version
- There were discrepancies between final data on the Finished multipass imaging window and data in the Log. Fixed.
Hexadecimal Viewer/Editor
R-Studio for Mac 7.3.191246 Wed Sep 27, 2023
New features
+ Support for the ReFS 3.10 file system.
+ Support for Bitlocker Drive Encryption. R-Studio can decrypt both BitLocker Drive Encryption and BitLocker ToGo volumes using either a password, recovery key, and a .bek file. R-Studio Technician/T80+ can also use FVEK (Full Volume Encryption Key) or VMK (Volume Master Key) data for decryption.
+ Support for VHD/VHDX/VDI disk image formats. All R-Studio versions can load these files, R-Studio Corporate and Technician/T80+ can create them.
+ Read-only support for the dmg files (Apple Disk Image: all versions ), e01/(ewf) files (Expert Witness File Format: R-Studio Technician/T80+), and aff files (Advanced Forensic Format: R-Studio Technician/T80+).
+ Support for creation of encrypted RDR image files (the main disk image format for all R-TT, Inc products).
+ Support for SCSI/NVME translation for external USB/NVME boxes. Among other things this makes it possible to obtain S.M.A.R.T. attributes for such devices.
Improvements
* NTFS deduplication processing has been improved.
* Passwords can be shown in their dialog boxes.
* It's now possible to mark/unmark empty folders through Find/Mark dialog box using the Mark All/Unmark All command.
* R-Studio now shows multi-pass imaging statistics after the imaging process is completed.
* All data from the Properties tab can be copied in one command.
R-Studio Technician/T80+
* Multi-pass Imaging Phases can be enabled/disabled on-the-fly.
* Symlinks can be exported to custom recovery lists either as real folders or as symlinks.
* Search for files has been added to the HTML custom recovery lists.
Changes
= New icons for storage devices.
Bugfixes
- The program might have crashed when showing unicode symbols in the upper range (greater than FFFF) like Chinese symbols, emoji, etc. Fixed.
- The program may have frozen rarely while opening ext fs partitions. Fixed.
- R-Studio couldn't correctly load multi-file images if their parts are located in different places. Fixed
- R-Studio may have aborted data recovery when the Skip button was clicked under some rare circumstances. Fixed.
- Files with the question mark "?" in their names could not be saved to files recovery lists. Fixed.
- Bad sectors weren't saved to mask presets. Fixed.
- A progress bar may have rarely crashed under specific circumstances: closing dialog box and showing a warning message at the same time. Fixed.
- Sometimes, the device root wasn't marked as Root which led to problems in moving around files. Fixed.
- Folder-links may have been marked incorrectly when a recovery lists with file IDs was loaded. Fixed.
- Moving around links to folders which are actually files may have been incorrect. Fixed.
- Several bugs connected with symlink processing on UNIX file systems have been fixed.
- Detection of cyclic symlinks may have been incorrect. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic and minor internal bugs have been fixes.
R-Studio for Mac 7.2.191161 Fri May 26, 2023
Bugfixes
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 7.2.191153 Sun May 14, 2023
New features
+ Data storage types (SSD, HDD, USB, etc) info has been added to the Drives pane.
+ Search/mark/mask can be specified by bad sectors.
+ All S.M.A.R.T. attributes can be copied through one action (The Copy All button on the S.M.A.R.T. panel).
+ The Options tab is added to the Wiping progress indicator.
R-Studio Technician:
+ Search/mark/mask can be specified by runtime imaging status.
+ The creation time and accessed time data has been added to the forensic report.
+ New file formats for recovery lists have been added: HTML, XML, JSON, and CSV. The new formats, especially the HTML one, allow the customers to easily edit recovery lists in their web browsers and then send edited lists back.
+ Disk scan has become available during multi-pass imaging.
+ A completed runtime image can now be either resumed or re-written.
+ A new option "Skip files with bad sectors" has been added to runtime imaging of individual folders/files.
+ A new option "Unused clusters only" has been added to the multi-pass and complete runtime imaging options.
Improvements
* Any files from Extra Found Files will not be recovered if there are their duplicates in the file systems (Root) when the Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files option is selected. Earlier this option took effect only for recovered files.
* Several tabs can now be moved by dragging them with the mouse.
* Processing of various non-printable characters in file names has been improved.
* Hints for shortcut menu items are now shown in the status bar.
* Search for and opening of file regions is now faster.
* Last used paths are now saved in several new fields.
* The Cross link info has been added to the Get Info panel.
* Saving and loading of Broken File Name and Hidden Attribute parameters have been improved.
R-Studio Technician:
* Progress display for the I/O monitor window has been improved.
* A data grid has been added to the I/O Monitor window.
* A color scheme and legend have been improved on the I/O Monitor window.
* A sector map window may be opened directly from the message about successful opening the sector map file.
* Speed for runtime imaging of individual files has been significantly increased, especially for many small files.
Changes
= Save/Load File Names menu items and commands have been renamed to Export/Import Recovery List.
= The FileID files parameter was moved to the top control box on the Find/Mark dialog box.
Bugfixes
- Bad sectors and Runtime image parameters could not be included into file mask presets. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when the same partition got reopened in the same tab. Fixed.
- Several states of Recovery Chances may have been found incorrectly for FAT file systems. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed during multipass imaging with reverse reading and enabled scan. Fixed.
- An incorrect message "There is nothing to process using the specified settings" may have appeared when the disk object had bad sectors. Fixed.
- Data read speed was enormously slow for multipass imaging of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when an unmounted CDROM drive was selected. Fixed.
- Data form the drive's first sectors wasn't included into the image when creating an multipass image of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- Files were not always recovered from the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- Many cosmetic buxfixes in R-Studio and R-Studio Agent.
- The I/O Monitor window showed incorrect info after resizing. Fixed.
- An unnecessary message about post actions may have appeared in email notifications. Fixed.
- User's file type file may have been ignored during program startup. Fixed.
- R-Studio showed ? in names in links as small squares. Fixed.
- R-Studio couldn't find formatted exFAT partitions when they contained only root folders (without subfoders) and their roots was rewritten. Fixed.
- Unstable sectors were treated as bad. Fixed.
- An unnecessary tooltip may have appeared in the I/O Monitor window. Fixed.
- Sometimes incorrect marks may have appeared in the top level of the folder tree. Fixed.
- Incorrect data may have appeared in the Accessed Time column. Fixed.
- Some fixes in the algorithm of recovery chances estimation.
- The path to runtime image was processed incorrectly for runtime imaging on its dialog box. Fixed.
- Hardlinked files may have been recovered incorrectly. Fixed.
- The Estimated size value on the Create Image dialog window may have not changed when the Compression ratio slider was moved. Fixed.
- Files/folders with non-Latin names were not marked after recovery lists were loaded. Fixed.
- No read indicator (R) was shown on the I/O Monitors window while skipping slow areas. Fixed.
- All S.M.A.R.T. icons changed to green after a runtime image was connected. Fixed.
- Names of files which contained something similar to HTML tags may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- Nothing was selected for the Copying mode options on the Smart drive copy tab in Drives Copy Wizard. Fixed.
- It was possible to clear the Enable write option even when runtime imaging was activated. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when file sorting tabs were switched. Fixed.
- The Runtime image status and Bad sectors columns were sorted incorrectly. Fixed.
- Reaction to incorrect Empty Space Size values in the RAID reconstruction module was dubious. Fixed.
- Bad sectors and Runtime image parameters could not be included into file mask presets. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when the same partition got reopened in the same tab. Fixed.
- Several states of Recovery Chances may have been found incorrectly for FAT file systems. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed during multipass imaging with reverse reading and enabled scan. Fixed.
- An incorrect message "There is nothing to process using the specified settings" may have appeared when the disk object had bad sectors. Fixed.
- Data read speed was enormously slow for multipass imaging of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- Data form the drive's first sectors wasn't included into the image when creating an multipass image of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
- Files were not always recovered from the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- Many cosmetic buxfixes in R-Studio.
R-Studio for Mac 7.1.191047 Fri Sep 16, 2022
New features:
The following items have been added:
+ A new command Close All Images to close all opened images.
+ Support for the XFS file system;
+ Support for Intel Software RAIDs;
+ Data wiping for drives.
Additionally for the Technician versions:
+ Runtime imaging for individual folders/files;
+ Imaging of drive's file system (FS map) only;
+ Drive and file maps for all supported devices;
+ Drive imaging to a physical drive rather than to an image file;
+ New file hash functions sha1 and sha256 to forensic logs.
Improvements:
* Discovery of symlink targets has been improved.
* Info about multi-pass imaging phases has been added to the log.
* A new option Check sectors status has been added to the Recheck Recovery Chances dialog box.
* Estimation of recovery chances has been improved.
* The ISO image file type has been added to the File Types list.
* During execution of the Complete runtime image, I/O Monitor now shows the read speed of the disk rather than read/write speed.
* File System error message codes are expanded for deletion/move errors.
The Technician version
* Post Actions (Shut down the computer on task completion & E-mail options) have been added to the Options window.
Changes:
= The default system info file names have been changed to R-Studio-SystemInfo-yyyy-MM-dd.
= The I/O Options button has been renamed to the Options button.
The Technician version
= The Forensic Log Settings dialog box has been moved to the Forensic Log Settings tab on the Recover dialog box.
Bugfixes
- R-Studio may have processed huge ext4fs file systems for too long time. Fixed.
- It was impossible to stop disk actions with malfunctioning disks. Fixed.
- Not all information was copied from the Get Info window. Fixed.
- The Files and Folders checkboxes were disabled by default on the Find/Mark dialog box. Fixed.
- File search and mask returned incorrect results for the Modification date. Fixed.
- The Yes to All and No to All buttons appeared on the Save scan info dialog box even when only one tab was opened. Fixed.
- Missing disks added to Virtual Volume Set or Virtual Mirror couldn't be edit correctly. Fixed.
- Some partition and drive actions could be performed during disk operations like disk scan, RAID consistency check, and so on. Fixed.
- No progress bar was shown during manual update. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen while executing the Recover All Files command. Fixed.
- File sorting may have changed to default (Real file system) when the Show Files command was executed for an already opened tab, or the tab was moved, etc. Fixed.
- Child objects of a wiped drive/partition were not automatically deleted from the Device view pane. Fixed.
- Sometimes, R-Studio may have crashed on close. Fixed.
- The Close All command appeared in the Partition tab shortcut menu even only one tab was opened. Fixed.
- Questionable folders may have disappeared in the panels after Rescan Folder. Fixed.
- Existing zero-sized files had the green mark for recovery chances. Fixed.
- The Preview command was active in the Find Results panel for zero-sized files. Fixed.
- A negative offset may have been entered into the I/O Monitor field. Fixed.
- An image of a password-protected APFS container could not be opened even with the correct password. Fixed.
- File marking results may have been different for different time formats. Fixed.
- The information in the Disk Properties tab was updated incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Studio crashed when the byte-to-byte imaging was selected in a system with only one disk. Fixed.
- Masked marked files were incorrectly counted. Fixed.
- Tabs may have closed without a due warning. Fixed.
- Deleted files were not marked with the red cross in the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- The Recover Marked button may have been inactive after marking files using the Find/Mark dialog box and when the Skip files with bad sectors option is selected on the Recover dialog box. Fixed.
- The Recover Marked shortcut menu item and button remained inactive when a file was marked for recovery in the Find Results pane. Fixed.
- When there was not enough room for a large file and a new destination was assigned, the leftover of the file left in the first place. Fixed.
- Recovery froze and could not be resumed if a file name and path appeared too long. Fixed.
- Recovery froze from the Extensions tab when the Restore folder structure and Restore from root options were selected on the Recovery dialog box. Fixed.
- It was possible to perform many Drag&Drop operations while performing various drive tasks. Fixed.
- The OK button was active when the Password field was empty on the Enter the password dialog box. Fixed.
- Data on virtual block RAIDs with disks with bad sectors may have read too slowly. Fixed.
- An RDR-type image could not be correctly removed from a virtual RAID. Fixed.
- RAID-connected tabs didn't close when the RAID parameters were altered. Fixed.
- A Virtual Block RAID object may have frozen when another RAID parent was added. Fixed.
- Many cosmetic, wrong messages, and localization bugs have been fixed.
The Technician version
- The Map of file command was active in the left pane of the R-Studio's panel. Fixed.
- It was impossible to disable all additional phases for multi-pass imaging in order to enable only the main one. Fixed.
- R-Studio performed Slow areas and Retrying phases of multi-pass imaging even when when they were disabled. Fixed.
- R-Studio threw a Corrupt data error message for ddrescue map files larger than 64kB. Fixed.
- It was impossible to perform sector map operations for incomplete images. Fixed.
- R-Studio Technician for Mac/Linux couldn't be re-registered into the T80+ version. Fixed
- Multi-pass images with several takes were created incorrectly if the Perform reading in reverse order if possible option was selected. Fixed.
- I/O Monitor showed read speed incorrectly. Fixed.
- A sector map file was being written not as often as necessary while completing runtime imaging. Fixed.
Text/hexadecimal editor
- The Hexadecimal editor didn't close an opened disk when disk wiping started. Fixed.
- The content of the UNICODE and UNICODE+ columns may have merged. These columns could not be resized. Fixed.
- An unnecessary inquiry about overwriting a file after executing the Tools - Save to Binary File... or Save to Hexadecimal file command may have appeared. Fixed.
- The Find previous command and reverse search may have executed incorrectly. Fixed.
- The Select From/To procedure didn't work correctly with the Search command.
- The search command may have been executed incorrectly when the Not equal option was enabled. Fixed.
- The Append command may have been executed incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 7.0.7009 Wed Mar 30, 2022
New features:
+ Several disk objects can be opened in one tab. All these objects can be simultaneously searched for files, their files can be marked and recovered.
+ Drive imaging can be interrupted and then resumed. When the user stops an imaging process, they have two options: to discard an already created partial image file or to save it to resume drive imaging later. Created partial images can be loaded, too.
+ Some extended options have been added to the drive operation progress windows. They can be altered on-the-fly.
+ File types can be searched for on the Known File Types dialog box.
+ Support for the VMDK virtual disk format (open: all version, creation: Technician).
+ Support for the ReFS 3.7 file system (Windows Server 2022).
R-Studio Technician:
+ A new license type T80+. R-Studio T80+ is equal in its features to full-fledged R-Studio Technician, runs for a certain period of time, and during its validity period can be upgraded to R-Studio Technician for the initial price difference. The license price of 1 USD per day is very affordable for small businesses, computer repair shops, and individual data recovery contractors.
+ R-Studio Technician is now available on our public web pages and can be tested in the Demo mode.
+ Runtime imaging. R-Studio creates drive images in parallel with other drive reading operations. Next time when R-Studio accesses data from imaged drive areas it gets the data from the runtime image.
+ Multi-pass imaging. Images from problematic drives can be created through several phases reading data from good areas first and from bad and slow areas later. Such approach allows for extracting maximum possible amount of data even from quite faulty drives.
+ Support for sector maps, both in the R-Studio's format and in the third-party software ddrescue and HDDSuperClone formats.
+ I/O Monitor allows the user to inspect read/write operations in real time.
A full-featured hexadecimal editor is now available in the Technician/T80+ and Corporate versions.
Improvements:
* Support for APFS sealed volumes created by macOS Big Sur and later.
* R-Studio warns the user when an APFS disk is hardware encrypted or its decryption is possible only by using the iCloud account.
* File system recognition has been improved for scanned APFS file system.
* Processing of encrypted APFS partitions has been improved.
* Support for macOS file vault has been improved.
* Processing of the .Trash folder has been improved for macOS file systems.
* Read/write operations have been greatly accelerated for block RAIDs with small block sizes. E.g., the read speed for a 512b block has been increased from 5MB/sec to 100MB/sec.
* Read operations has been accelerated for block RAIDs by paralleling I/O operations for parent disks. E.g.,the read speed for a 3HD RAID5 has been increased from 100MB/sec to 190MB/sec.
* When a user opens an already opened partition it brings the user to the corresponding tab.
* Option processing for the Find/Mark dialog box has been improved.
* R-Studio shows now S.M.A.R.T. attributes for NVME SSD devices.
* Detection of S.M.A.R.T. attributes have been improved for new hard drive models.
* Detection of Disk identity parameters (Vendor name, Product name, Firmware version, Serial number) has been improved.
* Symlink processing has been improved, including the Mark all and Unmark all commands.
* Execution of the Save All File Names / Load File Names commands has been accelerated.
* File type icons have been added to the Find Results (Find All Files) panel.
* Message display in the Log View panels has been improved.
* Recheck Recovery Chances has been improved.
* A warning message appears when the user tries to close tabs with open disks/partitions.
* The recovered part of a file will remain when the recovery process has been interrupted.
Bugfixes:
- The rdr image for an APFS container couldn't be parsed automatically and required refreshing. Fixed.
- An empty string appeared in the Drive type field in the Properties tab for an APFS volume. Fixed. R-Studio shows the "APFS Volume" string now.
- R-Studio may have crashed while enumerating files on APFS file systems. Fixed.
- Metadata FS snapshot for a recognized APFS file system could not be saved. Fixed.
- When the recover options Restore folder structure and Restore from root were selected, the original Modified and Accessed timestamps were changed to the time of file recovery. Fixed.
- Symlinked folders remained marked when their target were unmarked. Fixed.
- Files from symlinked folders may have recovered to incorrect places. Fixed.
- The Advanced Scan dialog box may have shown the Scan area parameter incorrectly after second clicks on the Advanced button. Fixed.
- Strings on Properties panel were selected incorrectly. Fixed.
- The Find/Mark dialog box could not show all opened partitions correctly when they were many. Fixed.
- R-Studio showed files in renamed folders as deleted, although they were not. Fixed.
- R-Studio may freeze when opening a RAID created from disk images. Fixed.
- The Logical Sector Size parameters may have appeared twice on the IDE Properties tab. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen when creating an image of a recognized partition. Fixed.
- Files didn't appear in the Find Results panel after they were unmasked if file sorting tabs were switched.
- R-Studio may not have found a file by its exact size. Fixed.
- FAT cross-linked folders may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Zero-sized files could be viewed in the built-in Text/Hexadecimal Editor and file previewer. Fixed.
- The FAT32 bitlocker to go couldn't be recognized. Fixed.
- An image file from a remote computer could not be saved to either the remote computer or local one. Fixed.
- S.M.A.R.T. for Intel NVME devices may have been displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic fixes.
R-Studio for Mac 6.8.6047 Wed Jul 07, 2021
Bugfixes:
- Disk mount may haven't been working in the version for old Macs. Fixed.
- Check for update didn't work in the Technician version. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.8.6041/6043 Thu Jun 17, 2021
New features:
+ Native support for Apple silicon (the Apple M1 chip) has been added.
+ Support for APFS container layout on the Apple silicon computers has been
added.
+ Several file systems (the main and several reformatted ones) can now be
found on one partition, if their traces remain in the boot records.
Improvements:
* The program interface has been improved for High Sierra and Big Sur macOS.
* APFS file systems and APFS Fusion Drives can be recognized on a pure hard
drive without protective GPT partitions.
Bugfixes:
- The program may have gone into a loop and frozen at the last stage of partition recognition. Fixed.
- The program may sometimes have frozen when recognizing the file system. Fixed.
- When a partition without a file system on a MBR disk was formatted, the partition divided into a not-equal volume and partition. The were shown as two different objects. Fixed.
- When R-Studio found a direct volume on a flash drive, it didn't search for deleted partitions. Fixed.
- Sometimes email could not be correctly delivered in the Technician version on the Big Sur macOS.
R-Studio for Mac 6.7.6026 Sun Jan 03, 2021
New features:
+ Virtual objects, like virtual RAIDs and regions, can be connected to the system as read-only virtual drives. Such drives are visible in and accessible to the system and other programs. (Technician version)
+ Folders, which are symbolic links to other folders (targets), can be shown as links, without showing the content of the targets. (Technician version)
+ Support for deduplication in the NTFS file system created by Windows Server 2019 has been added.
+ Support for the ReFS file system created by Windows Server 2019, including deduplication, has been added.
+ R-Studio Emergency can now run in 64-bit mode and use all available RAM to recover large hard drives.
Improvements:
* The program now recognizes an APFS partition with an erased main files B-Tree.
* Recognition of NTFS file systems with some wiped parts has been improved.
* Icons have been redesigned for better resizing on HiDPI screens.
* Recognition of fat16/32 folders with small numbers (1-2) of files has been improved.
* Recognition of ext2/3/4 partitions with block sizes <=1024 bytes has been improved.
* Folder links comparison has been added for recognized ext2/3/4 file systems to improve the recognition of very small file systems (1 group/cylinder block) and the quality of recognized partitions.
Bugfixes:
- The program may have frozen during the opening or scan of some images. Fixed.
- The warning that a mask was applied my have not shown on tab titles. Fixed.
- NTFS file systems with the cluster size of 64k may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Scan info for objects found during the fast scan for lost partitions may have been saved/loaded incorrectly (incorrect parent objects). Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugfixes.
R-Studio for Mac 6.6.6017 Wed Oct 28, 2020
New features:
+ Fast search for lost partitions has been added.
+ Support for the ISO9660 file system used in CDs/DVDs/ISO images has been added.
+ Support for the UStar/Tar/CPIO/Pax file systems used in tape storage devices has been added (Technician version).
+ Symbolic links may be hidden on the File Mask dialog box.
+ Symbolic links may be hidden by default on the Settings panel in the Technician version.
Improvements:
* R-Studio warns that a non-default port is selected for remote connection to R-Studio Agent.
* Extended control over file preview has been added. Files can now be marked for recovery, recovered, etc., directly from the built-in File previewer.
* Extended control and display of scanned and unscanned disk areas has been added.
* A special mark has been added for a folder with marked files that are hidden by the applied mask.
* A complete overhaul of symbolic and other links processing has been made.
* An option to recover only marked files matching the applied file mask or all marked files has been added to the Recover dialog box.
* The algorithm that estimates chances for successful file recovery has been improved.
* Interface localizations have been improved.
Bugfixes:
- R-Studio may have sometimes failed to find NTFS partitions without boot records. Fixed.
- File previewer didn't correctly display filenames with right to left scripts. Fixed.
- Sometimes it was hard to distinguish between font and highlight colors. Fixed.
- R-Studio treated folders with files hidden by an applied mask as empty folders and didn't show them when the Hide empty folders option is selected. Fixed.
- Empty folders may have been incorrectly recovered. Fixed.
- Mark/unmark records from file recovery lists were applied only to files visible after a file mask was applied. Fixed. Now the user is asked to apply the records to all files or only to files visible after a file mask was applied.
- R-Studio may have crashed when the Recover All Files command was started. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen when a shortcut menu was invoked for an incremental image without one part. Fixed.
- R-Studio parsed only the GPT partition table, even when it was invalid, when both LDM/MBR and LDM/GPT were present on the disk. Fixed.
- The Recover marked command was inactive if marked files were invisible due to the applied file mask. Fixed.
- The Copy information command copied the information from the previous file when the information of the selected file didn't exist. Fixed.
- The Expand All command for the folder tree may have frozen on partitions with large numbers of folders. Fixed.
- The number of marked files may have been displayed incorrectly when the view was changed from Real, by Extension, by Time, etc. Fixed.
- Sometimes R-Studio may have crashed during file recovery. Fixed.
- Sometimes the built-in previewer may have frozen when showing damaged files. Fixed.
- Scan time and progress may have been displayed incorrectly while scanning several regions. Fixed.
- Disk scan may have crashed or frozen during the process and an attempt to stop it. Fixed.
- The Rescan the entire disk command may have failed for an already scanned disk. Fixed.
- The Scan dialog didn't size units when it was closed and then opened again. Fixed.
A lot of symlink processing bugs have been fixed, two being worst:
- If there was a symlink to another folder in a place to store recovered files, and there was a folder in the data for recovery which name coincided with that symlink's folder, the recovered data was written to the symlink's folder. That may have resulted in complete loss of files stored in the symlink's folder. Fixed. Now R-Studio saves recovered files only within the path(s) specified for storing recovered files.
- When files were marked and then umarked in a folder that was a symlink, the files in its target were unmarked, too. Fixed.
- Disс information wasn't renewed when the CD was ejected and the Refresh command was executed. Fixed.
- R-Studio tried to access an attached CD/DVD drive during device refresh which may have resulted in temporal freeze. Fixed. Now R-Studio accesses a CD/DVD drive only when it works with it. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have temporally frozen while switching between the Real, Extension, XXX Time views for partitions with many folders. Fixed.
- Many internal bugfixes to improve program's efficiency.
- Some cosmetics bugfixes.
- Hexadecimal editor may have frozen while opening a multi-volume image. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.5.5939/5943 Sat Apr 04, 2020
New features:
+ Deleted partitions can be instantly found, without long scan.
+ Files can be recovered or marked for recovery directly from File previewer.
+ The number of read tries for bad sectors can be changed during a disk
operation.
Improvements:
* FAT folders partially damaged within sectors are also enumerated.
Bugfixes:
- No messages appeared in the log when a scan process was interrupted. Fixed.
- When R-Studio for Mac accessed data inside an already opened part of a multi-part image, a request to open this part may have appeared. Fixed.
- A multi-part image may have been opened incorrectly if the parts were small. Fixed.
- Log information may have been incorrect when recovery was interrupted. Fixed.
- When opening the next in turn part of a multi-part image, it was possible to click the OK button without entering the required file name. The part was lost and no more inquires were issued. Fixed.
- Sometimes the program may have sent a wrong message about not enough space when the image was written to alternative paths. Fixed.
- The Advanced Scan dialog box may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Studio for Mac may have frozen or crashed while opening file systems. Fixed.
- The best copy of the FAT table for FAT12/16 file systems was determined incorrectly when it was determined sector-wise. Fixed.
- The path dialog box on the remote computer may have delayed for a long time if there were unaccessible connected network drives. Fixed.
- R-Studio for Mac may have found waste copies of GPT partitions if a GPT disk was reformatted to an LDM/MBR disk. Fixed.
- The program may have found some garbage GPT partition entries when those entries were re-written. Fixed. Now R-Studio for Mac checks their validity and cancels invalid records.
- Partitions could not be copied to an HDD with several partition tables (i.g., a GPT table and some deleted ones). Fixed.
- An extended debug file system snapshot could not be saved for disks with unsupported encryption methods. Fixed.
- Several small internal and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
Text/hexadecimal editor:
- The offset field in the GoTo dialog box may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- Strings may have been truncated on the Find Results panel. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.4.5871 Wed Dec 25, 2019
New features:
+ Support for the compression algorithms lzvn and lzfse has been added. They are used in the new HFS+/APFS versions.
Bugfixes:
- R-Studio may have crashed when creating an ext4 FS metadata image. Or it may have created it slowly. Fixed.
- R-Studio may sometimes have crashed when opening heavily corrupted file systems. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.4.5833 Sat Nov 23, 2019
Bugfixes:
- R-Studio.app could not be upgraded by dragging it into the Application folder. The previous version had to be moved manually to .Trash and only then the new one could be installed. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed while analyzing damaged Ext4FS file systems. Fixed.
- Sometimes program didn't switch to new alternative paths when it ran out of free space on the selected device. Fixed.
- Data in the Find All in the Text/Hexadecimal editor wasn't fully shown until the mouse was dragged over them. Sometimes the panel may have frozen. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.4.5797 Sat Nov 09, 2019
New Features:
+ Support the APFS file system created by macOS Catalina has been added.
+ Support of the APFS Fusion Drive has been added.
+ Several paths can be immediately specified for multiple-volume images.
+ Automatic recognition and assembly of complex disk manager objects whose components are also various disk manager objects. This may be useful for data recovery from various NAS devices.
Technician version:
+ Alternative paths can be specified for places to store recovered files and images.
+ Post Action options have been added for unattended operations:
. Automatic shutdown once lengthy operations have completed: file recovery, disk scan, and disk imaging. When this option is specified, R-Studio checks that all relevant information (scan info, RAID layouts, etc) has been saved and advanced recovery features specified.
. Automatic email notification regarding operation success/failure.
Improvements:
* Updated macOS driver to mount R-Drive Image type (.rdr) images.
* Search for deleted files has been improved for the Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 file systems.
* File system reconstruction has been improved for APFS partitions.
* The Open folder when done option has been added to the Recover dialog box.
* File enumeration speed has been increased by several dozen times for Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 partitions.
* Folder scan to improve folder tree reconstruction on recognized Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 partitions.
* Ext4fs extent reconstruction for large deleted files even if they are not in the file system journal.
* Network data recovery speed has been increased by several dozen times.
* Text/hexadecimal editor shows the position on partition for resident files on the Ext4, UFS, HFS+, and APFS file systems, and for compressed files on the HFS+ file systems.
Bug-fixes:
- R-Studio may have opened some partitions with large numbers of files for a long time. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have crashed during performing recheck recovery chances. Fixed.
- Volume labels may have been detected incorrectly for UFS1 partitions. Fixed.
- Idle RAID sequences may have appeared when a custom RAID was created. Those sequences could not be deleted. Fixed.
- When an invalid RAID table was applied, the program didn't throw a warning. Fixed.
- An incorrect minimum number of RAID table lines may have appeared for RAID0 and RAID4. Fixed.
- The cursor may have moved incorrectly when editing the RAID table. Fixed.
- Unit fields (TB, GB, MB) in the RAID editor may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Sometimes, R-Studio may have selected an incorrect folder for cross-linked files on FAT file systems. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.3.5571 Tue May 21, 2019
New features:
+ Get Info panel has been added to the Content pane. Detailed information about a selected file. Extended file information in the Technician version like disk regions, overlapping files, etc.
+ Advanced options have been added to file recovery lists in the Technician version: specific file system info, overlapping files, disk regions, etc.
Improvements:
* Files in Extra Found Files (raw files) can now be automatically excluded from recovery if they are duplicates of files found in the real file system.
* Support for NTFS cluster sizes from 128KB to 2MB has been added.
* The algorithm for estimation of file recovery probability has been improved.
* Memory usage has been optimized and debugged.
* The Reset button has been added to the RAID Parents tab. It resets RAID parameters to those set by the Apply button.
* LVM processing has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- R-Studio may have temporally frozen when opening an NTFS partition with many compressed files. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have opened APFS partitions with many files for a long time. Fixed.
- The Find Previous Version of the File command may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Mask presets may have loaded incorrectly. Fixed.
- Date may have changed incorrectly in the File Mask dialog box. Fixed.
- Multiple files that occupy the same sector may have been shown incorrectly in Text/hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
- If files were manually unmarked, they could not be marked for recovery using the File/Mark dialog box. Fixed.
- Existing files may have been shown as deleted in cross-linked folders on FAT32 partitions. Fixed.
- Some file dates may have been saved to File Mask presets incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have crashed when opening disk images. Fixed.
- The Show Files command in Text/hexadecimal editor may have stopped working if file region enumeration was interrupted by the user. Fixed.
- The Details/Icons view may have switched incorrectly when switching opened partitions. Fixed.
- Units in the Size fields on the Find/Mark dialog box were always reset to Bytes. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen or crashed when the Reopen Drive Files button was quickly clicked several times. Fixed.
- Sometimes mdadm RAIDs could not be automatically assembled from images. Fixed.
- The Apply changes immediately option could be enabled only on the second attempt. Fixed.
- Any changes in fthe Block order table defaulted all other RAID parameters. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen when one LDM disk was disconnected and the Reassemble button was clicked.
- R-Studio may have crashed when Text/Hexadecimal was opened from the Block information window when working with DDI. Fixed.
- Empty sequences were generated in the Sequences window when the Custom RAID type was selected. Those sequences could not be deleted. Fixed.
- The last valid RAID block order table was saved rather than the current invalid table. Fixed.
- The Get Info window showed wrong file info when sorting had been changed. Fixed.
- Clicking an empty space on the Get Info window opened Hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
- Files remained marked when files were recovered with the Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files option enabled. Fixed.
- Not all information on Overlapping files and Regions when saving file names. Fixed.
- The Find/Mark dialog box didn't preserve selections for the Look At Files/Folders option. Fixed.
- A file and folder may have the same ID on the time/extension sorting tabs. Clicking such object may have resulted in jumping to another object with the same ID. For example, to a file with an ID randomly coinciding with the ID of a folder. Fixed.
- Saving file names for marked files didn't save names for files with links in their paths. Only link name was saved without files in the related folder. Fixed.
- Some small interface and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.2.5451 Sat Feb 02, 2019
New features:
+ Estimation of chances for successful file recovery
+ Recovery of names and paths for files deleted to Recycle Bin and Trash
+ Support for ReFS 3.4 file system
Improvements:
* A complete redesign of the Find/Mark dialog box.
* The parsing and reconstruction of the FAT32 and NTFS file systems has been improved.
* The parsing of scanned APFS partitions has been improved, especially for large APFS file systems, for which the decrease of parsing time may reach several thousand times.
Bug-fixes:
- The program may have crashed while recovering damaged UFS2.
- It was impossible to mark files using the Find/Mark command if those files had been unmarked manually.
- Time stamps on the Define File Mask dialog box may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Time stamps on the presents on the Define File Mask dialog box may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Values in the Size From field on the Find/Mark dialog box was constantly switching to bytes.
- File previewer didn't work on some Linux distros. Fixed.
- The Find Previous Version of the File command may have not worked. Fixed.
- Large ext4 file systems (60+TB) may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
- Sometimes the program may have crashed or frozen during file enumeration and disk scan. Fixed.
- The program may have written data to network drives incorrectly. Fixed.
- Sometimes file systems on automatically created virtual RAIDs may have been created incorrectly when the RAID parents were disk images. Fixed.
- Some encrypted APFS disks could not be opened. Fixed.
- No files (recovered, scan info, image) could be save to connected network drives or to any place defined as a UNC path (\\server\share\path). Fixed.
- The View/Edit command status (enable/disable) may have been incorrectly set. Fixed.
- Details/Small/Medium/Large Icons button status wasn't preserved during switching between opened file panels. Fixed.
- Program Uninstall wasn't digitally signed. Fixed.
- The Ignore file mask option was working incorrectly. Fixed.
- Some corrections have been made to various localizations.
- Some cosmetic fixes.
R-Studio for Mac 6.1.5347 Mon Oct 15, 2018
Bug-fixes
- Some encrypted APFS disks could not be opened. Fixed.
- No files (recovered, scan info, image) could be save to connected network drives or to any place defined as a UNC path (\\server\share\path). Fixed.
- The View/Edit command status (enable/disable) may have been incorrectly set. Fixed.
- Details/Small/Medium/Large Icons button status wasn't preserved during switching between opened file panels. Fixed.
- Program Uninstall wasn't digitally signed. Fixed.
- The Ignore file mask option was working incorrectly. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic fixes.
- Some corrections have been made to various localizations.
R-Studio for Mac 6.1.5321 Fri Aug 03, 2018
New features:
+ Support has been added for S.M.A.R.T. attributes for NVME devices.
+ Support has been added for disk S.M.A.R.T. attributes under High Sierra.
Improvements:
* Processing of NTFS $BitMap file has been improved.
* Support has been improved for disks with several previous partition layouts (MBR, GPT, etc.)
Bug-fixes:
- The S.M.A.R.T. panel may have disappeared after disk refresh. Fixed.
- Several bugs have been fixed for icon display.
R-Studio for Mac 6.1 build 5307 Fri Jul 20, 2018
New features:
+ A completely overhauled file previewer which can now show picture tiles and first frames of video files as icons, and supports a large number of video/audio/graphic/document file formats. These files can now be played back without their respective applications installed.
Improvements:
* Processing of APFS file systems has been improved.
Bug-fixes:
- File enumeration on huge APFS file systems may have been slow. Fixed.
- Non-resident symlinks may have been parsed incorrectly on NTFS file systems. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed when an advanced mask was used. Fixed.
- The Parents tab may have disappeared when an rdr-compatible image was added to a virtual RAID. Fixed.
- The same text with a different letter case may have been converted to the initial in the Find/Mark dialog box. For example, if the first search was for Alex* and the second one for ALEX*, the latter may have been automatically converted to Alex*. Fixed.
- File mark in a marked folder using the Look in From current folder / Current folder options may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Request to save changes was always thrown in the Edit User's File Types window even when all changes had been canceled. Fixed.
- Mark/Unmark commands may have worked incorrectly for an empty folder selected in the Folders pane. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.0.5231 Thu Jun 14, 2018
Bug-fixes:
- The RAID Parents panel may have disappeared when an rdr image was added to the RAID. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have crashed when a file mask for a selected file was specified. Fixed.
R-Studio for Mac 6.0.5230 Tue May 29, 2018
New features:
+ Support has been added for APFS (including encryption), a new Apple file system introduced in macOS High Sierra.
+ Direct access to the system disk even when Apple's System Integration Protection is enabled.
+ Compressed images (the R-Drive Image type, .rdi) can now be mounted in the system as virtual devices to make them accessible for other software.
Improvements:
* Folder tree reconstruction has been improved for supported file systems.
* User's known file types immediately become marked upon loading.
Bug-fixes:
- When a Reverse RAID had been created for an object and then deleted, the Delete Reverse RAID command remained active for that object, and the Create Reverse RAID command inactive. Fixed.
- Icons of deleted objects may have remained in the Drives panel. Fixed.
- Sometimes the red highlighting of incorrect values may have flashed even when correct values were entered. Fixed.
- The Find Previous button may have remained active when the search reached the last match. When the button was clicked the last match was highlighted again. Fixed. Now the message that the search is over is thrown.
- The Reload User's File Types button on the Setting/Known File Types tab was active even when there was no user's file types loaded. Fixed.
- If the user's known file types were not saved, all known file types may have become unchecked during disk imaging and simultaneous scanning. Fixed.
- R-Studio may have frozen while working with a remote computer. Fixed.