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Save and Load Scan Results?

You can save and re-use valuable scan results so that you do not have to repeatedly rescan a partition to recover data if you recovery is spread out over several sessions. You can save the entire Scan Results branch or perform a separate save for each Disk Scan or all scan set for particular device.

Scan results are saved with the file extension SCANINFO.

Save Scan Results

1. To save the entire Scan Results branch, select the branch.
2. To save a device node, select it under Scan Results.
3. Right-click the selected node and click Save Scan Result from the context menu. The Save Scan Result dialog appears with the default path and a suggested file name.
4. To change the file path, browse to a different folder.
5. To change the file name, enter a name in the file name field.
6. Click Save.

Load Scan Results

1. To open the Load Scan Results dialog, do one of the following:
   • From the File menu, click Open > Scan Result…
   • Right-click the logical drive node and click Load Scan Result from the context menu.
   • If there is a Scan Results branch in the Recovery Explorer tree, right-click the Scan Results branch or right-click a Scan Results node and click Load Scan Result from the context menu.
2. Browse to the folder that contains the scan result file and select the file.
3. Click Open.

The data from the scan results file appears in a Scan Results node in the Recovery Explorer tree.

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