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Using Filter Options

Advanced File Recovery lets you configure the recovery options via Settings > Filter Options.

File Formats

- By default, Advanced File Recovery scans the system for the following popular formats:

Photos Formats:

Popular Photo Formats

JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, TIF, JFIF, JP2.

RAW Photos (Digital camera files)

DNG (Adobe), CR2/CR3/CRW (Canon), NEF/NRW (Nikon), PEF/PTX (Pentax), MOS (Leaf), 3FR (Hasselblad), ARI (Arri_Alexa), ARW/SR2 (Sony), ERF(Epson), FFF (Imcon/Hasselblad raw), KDC/K25/DCR/DCS/DRF (Kodak), EIP/LIQ/CAP (Phase_One), RAW (Panasonic/Leica).

Raster Photos

PPM, PGM, PBM, PNM, HEIF, ICO, PCX, SGI, PLBM, FLIF, ECW, PI, PSD, J2C, WEBP, PSP, XCF, PEE, THM, PDD, HEIC, MNG, PNB, SRW, FFF, PCT, RAF.

Vector Photos

CGM, DXF, EVA, EMF, SVG2, SVGZ, WMF, EPSF, JPS, HPGL, AI.

Audio Formats:

Common Audio Formats

AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA.

Other Audio Formats

AIFF, AU, CDA, MIDI, M3D, RM, RPS, RFL, RNS.

Video Formats:

Common Video Formats

MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, MKV.

Other Video Formats

3GP, MTS, FLC, CLK, DVM, ANM, AVS, M4V, MOI, ANI, QT, SMJPE.

Document Formats:

Common Document Formats

DOC, DOCX, DOT, DOTX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PDF, ODT, DOCM, and DOTM.

Other Document Formats

PPTM, POT, POTX, POTM, PPSX, PPS, ODP, ODS, XLA, XLAM, XLT, XLSM, XLSB, XLTX, and XLTM.

Text and Application Formats:

Common Text and Application Formats

JSP, ASPX, PHP, HTML, TXT, EXE, CPP, H, MHT, MHTML, and Apple Mail EMLX/EML.

Other Text and Application Formats

DCI, INDT, SCPT, C, SHW, ENC, MAIL, FLA, FP3, FP5, FP7, MUS, NTF, NSF, PST, SWF, DBX, PMD, PTF, ICS, DLL, INI, LOG, CSS, JS, XML, CONFIG, RTF, IPHOTO and PLIST.

Archive Formats:

Common Archive Formats

Zip, RAR, 7Z, TAR, CAB.

If you don’t want to run the scan for all formats, you can select the specific ones. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Launch Advanced File Recovery.

2. Click the Settings icon from the top bar of Advanced File Recovery.

3. From the new window that opens, Click Filter Options from the left pane.

4. You will now see a list of all popular and supported file formats in the right pane. Select the file types you want to scan the system to recover lost or deleted files.

5. After selecting the file formats > click Apply button to save changes.

6. Now run Advanced File Recovery to scan the selected drive for your selected file formats.