What's new in UFS Explorer Network RAID 10.6
Apr 25, 2024
- Added support of OpenBSD softraid (RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, Span);
- In disk imager: added a tool to re-image defect blocks (it resets the 'defect' status to the 'unread' status and allows to re-image the 'unread' zones);
- Microsoft Storage Spaces:
- Added basic support of multi-tier volumes with several rotation groups;
- Fixed parsing issue of 'parent link' metadata entries (version 2);
- Added a tool to open 'directory-bundled' images from a local file system:
- Added support of macOS sparsebundle/backupbundle format;
- Added support of Parallels HDD bundle virtual disks (with automatic support of snapshots);
- In media manager: added recognition of local Parallels Desktop virtual machines and possibility to access their virtual disks (under macOS);
- Disk images of Parallels Desktop software: added support of snapshots;
- Fixed scan issue that caused incorrect file system sub-trees reconstruction on Linux/Unix file systems (EXT, XFS etc.).
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 10.5 (Mar 26, 2024)
- Added ZFS pool builder GUI:
- Added GUI to view/edit ZFS pool configuration, including Vdevs, RAID-Z level and members etc.;
- Possibility to assign components manually (after metadata damage) and force placeholders on place of missing components;
- Added 'New ZFS pool' function under 'RAID' menu to build a pool manually;
- 'View/Edit RAID' function for ZFS pool RAIDs is replaced with this tool to view/re-configure automatically assembled pools;
- Added support of Drobo short-form metadata of latest models;
- In Drobo assistant tool: added possibility to specify data block metadata size (to support older models/firmware);
- In disk imager:
- Added option to track disk by serial number after its reconnection at different device path;
- When resuming saving image to an existing SDLSP or VHDX file, software now verifies stored serial number to match with the source;
- ZFS file system access:
- Fixed an issue with 'missing' support of Big-Endian file system (SPARC);
- Fixed an issue with path navigation when multiple datasets enclosed to each other;
- In ZFS scan procedure: fixed an issue with detection of Big-Endian ZFS (SPARC);
- In file size report: added possibility to switch between long (full) numbers and short form in KB/MB/GB/TB;
- ExFAT scan: addeed support of 'padding' directory records;
- NTFS:fixed issue with support of big files when DATA attribute is moved to ATTR_LIST but still has duplication of 'DATA tail' in main MFT record.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 10.4 (Feb 17, 2024)
- Fixed crash bug with in the disk imager working in ATA-mode;
- In SDLSP file format: added possibility to store 'Host Specific' ATA log pages;
- Added indication of encryption on disks from WD MyBook (DUO) with JMS561 bridge;
- Fixed issue with support of sparse files created with EXT2/3-style inodes on EXT file system;
- UFS file system: fixed a couple of bugs with processing of directory scan (after 'sparse' deletion).
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 10.3 (Jan 12, 2024)
- Reworked 'Save with filter' GUI: different filters separated to 'tabs', target path was made editable;
- Also reworked 'folder exclusion' mask as a separate setting;
- Added indication of ZFS pool component properties (vdev, RAID configuration, RAID-Z member, pool ID etc.);
- New filter UI design is also applied to reporting function;
- Access to NTFS volumes: Added support of Windows Overlay Filter (WOF) compression on files (both XPRESS and LZX);
- NTFS file system scan:
- Added search and processing of WOF-compressed files in scan result;
- Removed duplicate symbolic links;
- Corrected algorithm of directory structure recovery for 'lost' files;
- ExFAT file system scan: added possibility to recover items from partially wiped folders;
- In RAW recovery: added possibility to assemble SONY cam video streams with reverse header/data order.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 10.2 (Dec 6, 2023)
- 'Open device (advanced)' function now has setting for maximum IO block size (to support limitations of some adaptors);
- In disk imager (ATA mode) - fixed issues with read errors caused by mis-aligned buffer;
- SDLSP format now has native support of extended sector sizes (such as 520, 528, 4160 etc.);
- Saving images from SDLSP and plain files with extended sector size enable automatic conversion to standard sector size;
- In 'Media Manager': added support of TerraMaster NAS (shared folders, iSCSI, etc.);
- XFS file system: added support of 'object type in directory entry' extended feature for XFS metadata version 2;
- UFS file system: added support of sparse files;
- Increased software stack size to support much larger depth of directories nesting;
- In Explorer, introduced additional 'yellow' state for files found with 'raw recovery'.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 10.1 (Nov 3, 2023)
- Added support of RAID0+1 configurations of HP SmartArray controllers (version 1 metadata);
- Added support of RAID0 configurations on RAID components of different sizes (dynamic adjustment of rotation);
- In file viewer: added 'quick preview' for disk images and virtual disks of common formats and with most used file systems;
- In Media Manager:
- Added support of ASUSTOR NAS devices (shares, snapshots, iSCSI target files, encrypted shared folders);
- Added support of WD MyCloud NAS (OS 5: PRO, EX2 Ultra etc.) storages;
- Added support of legacy WD MyCloud Home series storages;
- For MyCloud Home storages, added proper indication of user name for 'auth' container folders;
- Fixed bug with support of GPT on Synology NAS;
- Reworked ReFS file system support module:
- Replaced 'mapping of file segments' with 'IO virtualization' to support segmentation and double indirection (optional, ReFS 3.9 and later);
- In 'access mode': added experimental support of ZSTD and LZ4 file compressions;
- In both 'access mode' and 'scan result': added support of 'redirected' file metadata (this fixes displaying of some files as 'folders');
- Removed imaging optimization for AVHDX/SDLSP files with enabled 'base' files (which are used as a 'delta');
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 10.0 (Oct 11, 2023)
- Added 'media manager' function:
- Optional detection of supported connected 'complicated' media devices (dedicated UI section for recognized media devices);
- Automatic assembly of mdadm RAID and LVM;
- Assisted (automatic) access to shared folders, iSCSI volumes, snapshots etc.;
- Automatic decryption of supported encrypted folders and containers;
- Support of QNAP (QTS 4.3 to 5.1), Synology (DSM 6.2 to 7.1) and Apple AirPort storages.
- Optional 'dark theme' in user interface;
- Automatic recognition of the dark/light theme of the system under Windows and macOS;
- Added the ability to independently configure the color theme of the program;
- Object properties dialog now includes explanation to custom colors of objects in UI;
- Added new scan type: 'Only the current file system' - to increase 'completion' speed and reduce memory usage;
- Fixed issue with proper recognition of DDF1 RAID10 configuratios on some controllers;
- Fixed several quality-related issues in raw recovery
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.18 (Jul 28, 2023)
- Added support of multi-volume configurations of very old Drobo DAS devices;
- In disk imager:
- Changed two-pass imaging to multi-pass imaging by adding optional one or two pre-imaging stages (with no retries on defects);
- Added optional pre-imaging stage 0 - to quickly skips slow and damaged areas for fast imaging of 'healthy' areas;
- Added one more pre-imaging stage to run on slow areas and to skip areas with defects (postpone them to the 'normal' stage);
- Added possibility to override number of retries and read timeout for the final imaging stage;
- Built-in viewer now supports displaying the contents of certain archive file formats:
- Added support of Zip, TAR, GZip and BZip2 archive container formats (including .tar.gz, .tar.bz2);
- Added content decompression for Deflate, Deflate64, BZip2, LZX, LZMS, LZMA, MS XPress and plain content streams;
- Added limited support of Windows IMage (WIM) file format (only individual files in current format);
- Support of preview of contained files;
- In 'file search' result: added missing color and file status indication;
- Added displaying of the number of files in scan result folders;
- Disabled the indication of the folder metadata size (to avoid confusion with the size of contained files);
- Added possibility to re-enable this function in the software settings;
- Fixed issue displaying color progressive (one scan per component) JPEG images as greyscale;
- Reworked support of ISO9660 file system.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.16 (May 16, 2023)
- iSCSI target (server):
- Fixed compatibility issue with open-iscsi client (iscsiadm);
- Added proper reproduction of defect blocks via iSCSI (verified with default Windows initiator and Linux open-iscsi);
- Drobo BeyondRAID: speed-up of general read/scan operations (especially for non-allocated storage space);
- Added support of hardware RAID on JMicron chips (including QNAP TR extension boxes);
- Added recognition/support of certain WiebeTech (CRU) and Tableau (Opentext) data protection bridges/adaptors;
- In the general disk imager (image at once):
- Speed optimization for EWF (E01) image file creation;
- Speed optimization for SDLSP format (especially on a LAN target);
- EXT3/4 file systems:
- Faster (optimized) processing of file system journal - by caching it to memory;
- Faster 'open' for existing big EXT3-4 volumes;
- Fixed issue with support of SATA M.2 SSD via Realtek USB-to-NVMe bridge chip;
- Added support of drives identification and SMART access on IEEE 1394 (FireWire) connection;
- In embedded viewer:
- Added several unsupported camera raw formats (and fixed couple of related bugs);
- Significantly reduced number of access attempts to storage when defect block is detected.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.15 (Apr 15, 2023)
- Drobo RAID: fixed bug with adaptive RAID reconstruction;
- RAID builder GUI: Added stripe of size 512 bytes to the stripe size selection list;
- Added support of direct access to SMART/identification of NVMe storages on USB adaptors with Realtek, Asmedia and JMicron bridge chips;
- Under Linux: added support of direct access to NVMe SMART/identification information;
- In SMART monitor:
- - NVMe: added indication of maximum (warning) temperature and current TBW (terabytes written) basing on NVMe SMART;
- - SAS: added displaying of G-list size for SSD; also added TBW estimation (both SSD and HDD), basing on Log Page 02h information (WRITE log);
- - SATA SSD: added displaying of TBW estimation using F9h SMART attribute, when available;
- Under Windows: added system (OS) file cache size to software settings - to control system memory use when working with image files;
- Few corrections to FAT/FAT32 scan procedure (to support several previously unsupported metadata damages);
- Added support of several recent digital cameras (RAW formats) to embedded viewer.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.14 (Mar 7, 2023)
- Saving disk image files to E01 (EWF) format:
- Fixed bug with sudden appearance of extra blocks at the end of file;
- Added special warning message about 'correct completion' of disk image (padding with zeros);
- Added progress indication for file finalization (when imaging is aborted) with ability to abort correct completion;
- HFS+ scan: better reconstruction of lost folder names from journal;
- ExFAT scan: removed duplicate 'green'/'yellow' file systems in result;
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.13 (Jan 30, 2023)
- Microsoft Storage Spaces:
- Added support of 'type 6' virtual disk descriptor records;
- Fixed issue with support of 'type chunk' records (format version 3 and above);
- Fixed issue with resumption of 'scan status' (ssdb) of RAID-Z scan;
- Added settings for handling map-defined virtual defects;
- When loaded associated map of defects for disk image, default 'defect' action is now 'virtually reproduce defects';
- BitLocker properties (Recovery key) now has link to open Microsoft Cloud storage of recovery keys;
- XFS file system scan: fixed couple of issues with save/resume scan and deleted file names recovery;
- BtrFS scan:
- Fixed issue with assembly of multi-component file system;
- Better recovery of virtual address space when virtual address space tree is lost;
- Fixed detection of LDM on GPT meta partition at long offset.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.12 (Dec 8, 2022)
- Default 'activate' action for a BitLocker partition is now changed to 'decrypt' with automatic opening of the decrypted partition (on success);
- List of file copying events is now limited to prevent uncontrolled memory consumption:
- Added configuration for maximum number of log records;
- In case of log overflow, added configuration how to handle it (stop logging, remove old items, log to a file);
- Added BitLocker properties indication for an incompletely decrypted BitLocker;
- In the scan finalization GUI now added more detailed indication of currently running operations, including number of found files;
- Added support of empty folders in scan results (to recover folder structures without files);
- NTFS file system scan:
- Added support of recovery of empty files, including files with only named data streams;
- Added procedure of restoration of lost file placeholders when there is no file descriptor (only a reference from a directory index);
- EXT3/4 file systems:
- Added support of empty folders and files of zero size in scan result;
- Fixed few issues with processing of journal and file names recovery;
- In disk imager: added support of import/export for lists of imaging ('include'/'exclude') fragments.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.11 (Oct 26, 2022)
- In disk imager:
- Target write speed (in MB/sec) is replaced with more informative indication (Slow/Normal/Good), relative to the overall copying process;
- Replaced window for 'disk lost' notification with automatic 'yes' response to 'retry' request after 60 seconds of inactivity;
- Fixed bug in handling of SDMF map tail;
- In LVM manager: when there is a problem opening thin LVM volume, added detailed error message with indication of problem on the metadata area;
- Few fixes and minor update to 'search partitions' dialog;
- Added indication of encryption information for APFS encrypted volumes and LUKS;
- This indicator now also can be used to start decryption dialog;
- Storage ID for VHD and VHDX now contains their GUID value (Write GUID for VHDX);
- Added indication of parent virtual disk for delta-file of VMDK, AVHD and AVHDX formats:
- All formats include indication of the 'parent path' hint;
- Microsoft AHDX and AVHDX files also indicate GUID of parent virtual disk.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.10 (Sep 21, 2022)
- Assembled Storage Space volumes now provide sector map information (allocation and defects, if available);
- Reworked RAID1E module: added support of multiple missing drives and optimized data access procedure;
- Rework to Microsoft Storage Spaces module:
- - Reworked procedure of automatic assembly of volumes to use only the latest version of metadata;
- - Automatic assembly of volumes is now made optional (it can be disabled in the settings);
- Added support of map files (log files) created by GNU ddrescue;
- Using of maps of defect blocks:
- - Support of maps after storage transformation/remapping (e.g. for BitLocker encrypted volumes);
- - Indication of defects on assembled RAID1E when pair of components missing or contain map of defects;
- - Software-generated defects now do not interrupt quickly the partition detection procedure;
- Update to ReFS3 scan: fixed a couple of bugs in the scan completion procedure;
- Update to FAT32 scan: better file system recovery when superblocks are lost AND FAT tables are damaged;
- Simplification to disk imager: single 'location' for metadata and automatic creation of log/map files;
- BitLocker decryption now supports multiple recovery keys (when available) for the same volume;
- For BitLocker-encrypted volumes, partition properties panel now displays properties of encryption.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.9 (Jul 11, 2022)
- iSCSI support:
- Initiator (client) now doesn't require multi-host/cluster mode and works on single connection;
- The Target (server): fixed several network communication issues;
- Added support of EnCase E01/Ex01 image files;
- Microsoft Storage Pools (Storage Spaces):
- Added support of 'Parity of mirrors' internal configurations;
- Added support of 'Three-way mirror' configurations (when the number of components is a multiple of three);
- Basic support of so-called 'dual parity' on Windows Server 2012R2 (also with adaptive reconstruction with single missing);
- Fixed bug with 'Two-way mirror' (in span, not rotation mode), created on Windows Server 2016 and later;
- When image file has associated map of defects, added automatic recognition of presence of that map:
- Software asks to load associated 'Attr.map' for 'TaskImage.bin' when it is present in the same folder;
- Added support of saving of map association to image files in VHDX format and software asks to load the map if the file is found;
- Software now uses 'storage with map' icon for 'defects recognition' and SDLSP with enabled internal map of block states;
- Linux software version:
- Addes support of indication of OwnerID/GroupID for Btrfs, EXT2-4, UFS1-2, XFS and ZFS;
- OwnerID/GroupID is also preserved for scan results of these file systems;
- OwnerID/GroupID can also be preserved when data is copied (when copying of 'standard' attributes is enabled);
- Fixed one scenario of GUI-related crash bug;
- Fixed few bugs related to XFS file system scan;
- Updated HFS+ scan procedure to support file system recovery when main metadata locations are wiped;
- Updated Btrfs file system scan procedure for finding fragments of very fragmented deleted files;
- Fixed issues with support of text LVM configurations created by CentOS 8.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.8 (Jun 10, 2022)
- SDLSP and VHDX image file formats now preserve information about the source storage (name and ID);
- Date/time entry fields replaced with the date/time selection dialog;
- In hex viewer, the 'hex search' function:
- Added a function to pause it to release the source storage for other operations;
- When stopped, the last searched position is stored as 'Next location' to allow a jump to it;
- NTFS file system: fixed issue with support of very fragmented files when the FileName attribute is outside of the main MFT entry;
- Fixed bugs with creation of big VHDX files (over 4TB);
- General modifications of maps of block states/defects:
- Native 'sdmf' map format is changed to the "sparse" format for better speed and lower storage usage;
- Reworked internal functions of the disk imager tool to support the sparse format;
- Information about the source storage is now saved to a map and is displayed when the map is loaded;
- SDLSP and VHDX image file formats now preserve information about the source storage (name and ID).
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.7 (May 12, 2022)
- Added basic support of LVM thin-provisioned volumes (Linux only) via 'Find LVM' tool;
- In Disk imager:
- Added option to shut down the source after completion (when power control is available);
- Entry name' field for EnCase format now can be customized (by default is the same as file name);
- Reworked operations with defect maps:
- Updated 'map loader' GUI (more obvious configuration, added map preview function);
- Software now enables file-based maps (when possible) to speed up loading and reduce memory usage;
- New type of storage object with applied map now supports indication of imaged/defect/free spaces;
- Fixed some reported bugs/issues:
- In hex viewer: incorrect base position for 'big block search', loss of colorer function for cached data;
- File system module: silent crash bug with bad F2FS;
- Handling of soft-defect blocks: extending of file map to whole block in scan result;
- LUKS decryption: using of SHA512 for hash function caused problems with decryption;
- Some minor GUI-related issues (under Windows OS).
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.6 (Apr 11, 2022)
- USB Stabilizer/Guardonix configuration: added option for 'Auto-repower by UFS Explorer';
- Disk imaging with DeepSpar USB Stabilizer:
- Added explicit configuration of re-power options for read timeout and read errors;
- Error recovery after 'storage loss' now includes re-power cycle;
- General disk imaging:
- Fixed issue with handling error of creation of plain disk image file;
- Fixed support of 4GB image chunk size on FAT32 target file system;
- Restoration of file/folder attributes (hidden flag, permissions etc.) was made optional;
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.5 (Feb 15, 2022)
- Optimized 'Refresh' procedure; scan of logical drives is now made optional (by default it is 'on');
- ExFAT scan: added processing of CheckDisk .CHK files (when possible), fixed few more issues;
- Raw recovery scan: found and fixed 'scan stuck' issue;
- Update to S.M.A.R.T monitoring tool: added 'SSD life' indication and support of SCSI Log Sense;
- Added indication of storage device type and rotation speed for HDD.
- Disk Imager:
- Rework (optimization) of configuration GUI;
- Fixed issue with attempting 'multi-sector retries' on defect blocks with 'system' read procedure;
- Added setting of file system 'read policy' for storages with defect blocks:
- Enabled support of 'read policies' for FAT, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, ReFS, Ext, XFS, F2FS file systems;
- Added Export/Import function for user-defined raw recovery file types:
- Selective export to own XML-based file format for backup or selective restore on different PC;
- Partial support of importing user-defined rules in some third-party XML formats;
- DeepSpar USB Stabilizer/Guardonix:
- Added recognition of devices with no media or when it is not powered on;
- Added power control and support of driver configuration;
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.4 (Jan 17, 2022)
- Implemented integrated management of raw recovery rules:
- Reworked storage schema for custom raw recovery rules;
- Added GUI that shows full list of custom and built-in raw recovery rules;
- Implemented simplified interface to create/view/edit user-defined rules;
- Built-in editor is set as priority source of custom rules for scan;
- Added support of BitLocker decryption using external keys from BEK-files (with no TPM);
- Update to S.M.A.R.T monitoring/log pages reader tool:
- Reading of both GP log and S.M.A.R.T log (when possible);
- Fixed issue with indication of 'seek error count' when it includes seek statistics;
- Added automatic assembly of APFS Fusion drives;
- Added indication of encrypted APFS volumes and volume decryption states;
- ExFAT scan: fixed issue with recognition of previous cluster size after format;
- Implemented ZSTD compression and enabled its support for ZFS and Btrfs file systems;
- F2FS file system: added support of 'extra attributes' flag.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.3 (Dec 14, 2021)
- File status indication in Explorer is extended with 'zeroed' (bad) state;
- Source sector size is now preserved for image files, saved to VHDX and SDLSP formats;
- In embedded file viewer:
- Added support of HEIC/HEIF photo format (Canon R5/R6, Apple products etc.);
- Added decoding of Fujifilm 14bit 'packed' RAF format (models X-A3, X-A7 etc.);
- Added decompression of Fujifilm compressed RAF format (models X-T2, X-T3, X-E3, X-H1 etc.);
- Defined configurations for many other raw photo formats.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.2 (Nov 17, 2021)
- Write support for VHDX virtual disks (file creation and modification);
- Added VHDX as target file format option for Disk Imager;
- 'File mask' operations ('search' etc.) now all support multiple values with semicolon as delimiter;
- Raw recovery and tool for re-assigning file extensions are extended with more types;
- Fujifilm RAW photos format (RAF):
- - Added extraction of file size, camera 'model name' and 'date taken' in raw recovery;
- - Fixed issue with file separation to 'preview' and 'tiff' when it is detected by content;
- MacOS HFS+ file system:
- - Enhanced procedure of damaged file system reconstruction and deleted data recovery;
- - Fixed issue with direct access to highly fragmented file system;
- Fixed several issues with Btrfs file system scan.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.1 (Oct 18, 2021)
- Recovery of lost address translation leafs in Btrfs scan (for correct deleted data recovery);
- FS with address translation (Btrfs) is now supported for 'status indication' in Explorer;
- File and Folder hardlinks deduplication is now made optional;
- Fixed few issues with disk imager (corrected number of retries, read block size etc.)
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 9.0 (Sep 20, 2021)
- Added tool for saving on-demand disk image files (imaging tasks):
- Support of imaging to flat, flat-sparse and sparse (SDLSP) disk image files
- Support of imaging (clonning) to another disk
- Using of built-in defect map for SDLSP and external defect map for other targets
- Save/restore of task configuration (.uitask) files
- Support of 'imager' interface and background (asynchronous) imaging
- Task control panel with map of defects and with activity indication
- Map of defects can be cleared in given region (all states or only defects)
- Detailed configuration of imaging parameters (two-pass imaging, timeouts etc.)
- Quick switch of pre-configugured and customizable imaging tiers
- Added support of flat-sparse image files (set of chunks with missed fragments);
- Scan now has option to save status periodically (with predefined time period);
- Data saving now can be scheduled as number of steps in priority order:
- Added 'Create batch copying task'/'Add to copying task' tool to context menu;
- Task can be aborted with possibility of resumption from aborted step;
- Common task copying log with logging of task step events;
- Task manager dialog to re-order, remove or configure steps (enable filters etc.);
- Added 'Quick scan (index)' tool to context menu of valid ('green') file systems;
- When empty or damaged FS is activated, there is a choice to browse or to scan it;
- Activation of partition with no file system now activates 'scan' dialog;
- Changed format of SDLSP files to version 3;
- Added tool to re-assign file extensions basing on content (for CHK files etc.);
- Fixed bug in adaptive RAID5/RAID6 reconstruction;
- Folders in scan result now display contained objects capacity;
- Explorer now highlights lager files/folders in scan result with percent bar;
- Color differentiation of existing and scanned file systems in Explorer;
- Support of hard links on NTFS, APFS, HFS+, Ext, F2FS, Reiser, UFS and XFS;
- Added automatic deduplication of duplicate hard links:
- Hard link to file is restored as hard link on target storage;
- If target file system doesn't support hard links, software creates copy of file;
- Hardlinks to HFS+ folders are restored to special location and linked with target;
- Links to folders are established with hardlinks (on HFS+) or with symlinks;
- If target file system doesn't support links, software fails to process such folders.
- Added support of duplicate file/folder hard links in scan result;
- NTFS scan procedure now processes NTFS indexes and thus hard links;
- APFS direct access:
- File system state is now loaded using the latest generation of stored superblock;
- Added support of file system snapshots, including 'local' and 'backup' Time Machine;
- Loading of file set is postponed until it is first used (for performance reasons);
- APFS scan:
- Indexing of APFS optionally includes snapshots (enabled by default);
- Better structure recovery and finding of lost snapshots in full scan;
- Added support of symbolic links;
- HFS+ scan: added support of hardlinks (including Time Machine);
- Support of reading S.M.A.R.T Log pages of SATA drives;
- Added indication of file status (validity) information for scan results:
- Indication is enabled by default; it can be disabled via 'Explorer' settings;
- Verification if file start matches to data of known and valid type;
- If defects bitmap is available, optional check if file is imaged;
- Tool to enable/disable/configure file status indication in Explorer;
- Option to save 'only good files' when status indication is available and enabled;
- In Explorer, added ability to stop reading content of big folders;
- Preserving 'Hidden' and 'System' flags on copied files (Windows version);
- XFS access: fixed problem with mixed Intel/Standard short folder metadata;
- XFS scan: fixed few major bugs with structure recovery in full scan;
- NTFS access: fixed issue displaying of multiple hardlinks from the same folder;
- NTFS scan: added processing of mount points as 'folder' symbolic links;
- ReFS3 access:
- Mount points (junctions) are displayed as 'folder' symbolic links;
- In symbolic links, paths are changed to relative to support their 'export';
- Older ReFS (Windows Server 2012): fixed few bugs in scan procedure;
- ExFAT scan: support of 1MB clusters, fixed few issues;
- Fixed loading RAID/storage configurations when PhysicalDrive has no serial number;
- Fixed issue with long cancellation of quick scan and duplication of results;
- Fixed duplication of $LostFiles folder in scan result;
- Fixed problem with support of ATA S.M.A.R.T via DeepSpar USB Stabilizer.
New in UFS Explorer Network RAID 8.17 (Sep 1, 2021)
- Microsoft Storage Spaces:
- Added support of double-parity volumes (so far, with only one missing disk);
- Support of metadata version 3;
- Fixed issue with support of Adaptec 1430SA DDF2 metadata;
- Fixed some compatibility issues of saved E01 files (compression, rounding);
- Storage properties tab now includes hashes for E01/Ex01 format;
- Disk Imager log is extended with more details (source/target properties etc.);
- Fixed few issues with processing of Windows Dynamic Disks (NT LDM);
- In 'advanced' copying, added filter to copy normal, deleted or both states;
- ReFS support is extended with new version found on Windows Server 2022 preview;
- Fixed several bugs (including crash bugs).