Advanced Options- Before You Start Make sure that you have closed all other applications and have your media card plugged in and showing on the computer. Choose Type of Recovery The main screen allows you to select a recovery method: Recover by File Content (Type) or Recover by Filesystem (Undelete) Recover by File Content will scan your entire device and recover data by file type content recognition even if the filesystem is missing. Recover by Filesystem is an undelete function and requires a valid filesystem. If you choose to Recover by File Content, the next screen allows you to select either Photos, Audio/Video, or All Files. Recovering Using Image Files Image files are files containing raw images of a drive. You can recover from an image file as you can from a logical drive. You can use an image file of your media in the case your media has some errors, or you need to recover the files at a later time. To make an image file, select your removable drive and click Backup Media. After choosing a folder for saving your image file the backup process is started after you choose your media to back up. To access a prior created image file proceed as follows: Click the Media Image File item in the drive list. Then you will need to locate the file that was saved as a backup image previously and select that file for scanning instead of selecting a digital media. Wiping the Media In the case where you need to completely erase the media, you can select the Wipe Media option. This will completely erase the media of all data. The data will not be recoverable after the wipe. NOTE: After wiping, you will need to reformat your media. To wipe the media, select your removable drive and click Wipe Media. Viewing and Saving the Files To view thumbnails of the files, click on the Preview button. Click an individual file to show a larger view. If you do not see a complete image, then that picture will not be recoverable. Other file types, and some audio/video types cannot be previewed in the software. To see the properties of a file, click on the file and then click the Properties button. In the full version of the software, you can attempt to open a file with the associated application by clicking the Open button. Once the scan completes you will receive a list of recovered files. The files are saved to the hard drive automatically. Click Output Folder to view the files. Other Options Clicking New Scan will return you to the main screen and ready to run another scan. When you run a new scan, you will be asked if you would like to clean up the temporary files from a previous run of RescuePRO. Make sure that you have saved the files from the Output folder to another location or they will be removed by cleaning up the temporary files at the start of a new scan. If you answer NO, you will use more disk space for each recovery until the clean up is allowed. To get back to the default location of the output data, go to the following folders (they will be numbered 0,1,2, etc): Windows 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{your username}\Documents\Recovered Windows Vista/7/8/10: C:\Users\{your username}\Documents\Recovered Mac OS X: {Users Home Folder}\Recovered (your home folder can be found by clicking Go and then Home in Finder). To change the Output folder location, press CTRL-O To change the Language, press CTRL-O