How do I view contents of an image file?

[sebt27]

I like R-Drive Image, but one thing is driving me nuts. I can't figure out a way to view the contents of a particular image file. I don't mean I need to open a particular file: I just want to see which files are in that image file (perhaps from months ago), and how recent the files are.

I'm creating images from selected files/locations, rather than images of an entire disk.

I'm getting confused, because I use differential images: but if I try to create a differential image onto an existing (first, full) image, it seems to try to re-image all the files from the source location, rather than the 24 files Windows Explorer Search tells me have been added/modified since that image was made.

There doesn't seem to be any way to drill into the contents of the image file: all I get is a box telling me that the files came from e.g. Partition D:\, which doesn't really help. I tried mounting one of the images as a virtual disk to look at it, but R-Drive Image wouldn't let me - perhaps because these image files are not of entire disks.

I'm almost certain that I did manage to view the contents, somehow, a year or more ago - but I just can't remember what UI trick I had to use to do that.

thanks for any help!