Migo Digital Rescue Premium Manual

Migo Digital Rescue Premium ensures that all of your important office files, documents, emails, photos, music, videos and more are easily retrievable in the event of an accidental deletion. Rest assured that all of your important files are protected against loss and will always be where they should be with the help of Migo Digital Rescue.

With Migo Digital Rescue Premium You Can:

• Recover Deleted Photos, Music and Videos
• Recover Deleted Microsoft Office files, Tax Documents and More
• Restore Deleted Email Messages and Attachments from Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Outlook and Thunderbird Email Programs
• Recover Deleted Outlook Calendars, Tasks, Notes, Journal Entries, Addresses and More
• Recover Files Deleted After the Recycle Bin has Been Emptied
• Search for Recoverable Files by Name, File Type, File Extension and More
• Preview Files Before Performing a Recovery
• Recover Multiple Files at the Same Time (Batch Recovery)
• Recover Files from PCs, External Hard Disk Drives, USB Flash Drives, SD Cards and More Digital Rescue Premium scans the low level information on your hard drive or inside your email database to locate traces of data that can be recovered.

Digital Rescue Premium, like all recovery software, relies on the fact that deleted files are not actually erased by Windows, they are only marked as deleted so that their disk space can be reused. Until another file uses that disk space (and writes different data there) the deleted information can potentially be recovered. You should NEVER install Digital Rescue Premium on the same disk where your lost files are located: doing so may write over the very information you need to recover. For the same reason, NEVER save recovered files to the same disk: recovering files works by making a COPY of the deleted data, which, again, may write over the very files you need to recover.

If you need to recover both files and emails from your file system, we recommend doing the file recovery first. Some of the features of the email recovery module may create temporary files on your system drive (usually the C:) which could overwrite parts of the files you wish to recover and other features will ask you for a destination to which files should be written.
Be very careful to select drives from which you are not concerned about recovering files and refrain from using the email preview capabilities if you are concerned about the drive on which Windows is installed.

Digital Rescue Premium can access all files on the hard drive, even those belonging to other users. For this reason, recovering deleting files can only be done when logged in as an Administrator. This prevents Limited or Guest users from accessing data that they may not be entitled to access.

To get started recovering lost files, click Recover Lost Files. The Select Drive screen will appear. Select the drive to search from the list.
By default, Digital Rescue Premium will report every file it can find on your disk, this can take a long time (there may be thousands of them.) You can speed up this process and make the list of found files much shorter and easier to work with by narrowing the search. If you know the type of file, or name, extension, etc, you can speed up the search by setting options to search. If you know that the file was modified less than a week ago, for example, Digital Rescue Premium does not need to worry about files that were last changed a year ago (but might still be recoverable.)

Here, you can select the file(s) you wish to recover and click Recover Selected Files to actually recover them.

TIP: If possible, ALWAYS do your filtering from the Select Drive screen if you can, it is faster and simpler, unless you need the advanced controls provided in the Filter Dialog.

Prior to clicking the Search for Lost Files button, the returned deleted file used for recovery list may be filtered based various user specified criteria.

By specifying search criteria before starting your initial scan, a much smaller list of files which are easier to manage will be returned.

A filter may also be applied after the initial scan has been completed for a selected drive by clicking on the Apply Filter button. The Filter Files dialog allows the returned file list to be filtered by file groups, file extensions, size and dates.

If you need to recover both files and emails from your system, we recommend doing the file recovery first. Some of the features of the email recovery module create temporary files on your system drive (usually the C:) which could overwrite parts of the files you wish to recover and other features will ask you for a destination to which files should be written.

Make certain that your email program is not running before you start an email recovery.

To get started, click Recover Lost Email. The Select Email Program page will appear. From this page, you can select Outlook or Outlook Express email programs.

The Reconstruct Method will try to recover all deleted or damaged items in your Outlook PST file, including emails, calendars, contacts and tasks. This method modifies your original Outlook database (.pst) so a backup of the database is made. You will be prompted to select a location to store the backup. Unlike the Outlook Scan recovery method, you have no ability to select what items are recovered using this method. All items that may be recovered using this method will be returned.

For Outlook Express, a deep scan is performed and you are presented with a list of emails that can be recovered. Data recovered from Outlook Express will usually have some corruption as Outlook Express always corrupts the first 4 characters of data in every 512 characters in the email. For plain text this is usually a minor annoyance; but for binary attachments, this corruption renders them useless. A second side effect of the corruption is that, on occasion, a recovered email file (.eml) will not display properly in Outlook Express. When this occurs though, you can open the file in a text editor or view message source in Outlook Express and view the contents.

This feature is designed to permanently destroy a lost file, so that it can never be recovered. You might want to do this if you have recovered a deleted file and want to be sure no one else does; you may also have deleted a file, and want to be certain that it cannot be recovered. In either case, Digital Rescue Premium can write over the file with random data so that no file recovery software can find or restore it.

Digital Rescue Premium can access all files on the hard drive, even those belonging to other users. For this reason, permanently deleting files can only be done when logged in as an Administrator. This prevents Limited or Guest users from destroying data that they may not be entitled to access.

Select the drive to search from the list on the left.

By default, Digital Rescue Premium will report every file it can find on your disk: this can take a long time (there may be thousands of them.) You can speed up this process and make the list of found files much shorter and easier to work with by narrowing the search. If you know the type of file, name, etc, you can speed up the search by setting options. If you know that the file was modified less than a week ago, for example, Digital Rescue Premium does not need to worry about files that were last changed a year ago (but might still be recoverable.)

When the scan is complete, the Delete screen will appear:

Here you can select the file(s) you wish to delete and click Permanently Delete Selected Files to remove them. Digital Rescue Premium will write information over the space containing the file data, making it permanently unrecoverable.

Digital Rescue Premium may find a large number of files. To help find the one(s) you are interested in, you can sort them by name, type, size, date, etc by clicking at the top of the list, or you can apply a filter to remove unneeded files from the list. Filters are managed by clicking the Apply Filter button; this displays the Filter dialog where you can specify exactly which files you want to see. These filters are the same as the ones applied in the Select Drive screen, but the Filter Dialog is larger and has many more options.

Digital Rescue Premium is designed to download and install updates from the Internet. This allows you to always have the latest software without having to check for and download new versions yourself.

Program updates are automatically installed (if you agree) when Digital Rescue Premium is first installed. They can also be done at any time by opening Digital Rescue Premium and clicking Live Update.

The Online Update Wizard will appear. Click Next to check the Migo Software website for updated software and download it. You will be prompted to complete any other actions required.