R-Studio full changelog

Bugfixes:
The 'Bind as Drive Image' command did not work correctly when an image was bound from inside another bound image. Fixed.

New features:
The Ctrl+W shortcut can now be used to close closable tabs in both the Device and File views.
UDF support has been added.
Improvements:
All drive dialogs close now if their drive has been disconnected.
The sorting view by Date/Extension has been improved. Files with dates greater than today will not appear in the "Invalid Time" folder.
The accuracy of finding and marking files by YTD have been improved.
The analysis of FAT tables for recognized exFAT partitions without boot records has been improved.
Bugfixes:
The Recovery task tab should have been closed on the Abort command if no files recovered. The Abort caption has been improved to "Recovery has been stopped."
The program may have crashed when starting recovery after a source drive was ejected. Fixed.
Many internal, GUI, and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.

New features:
The Ctrl+W shortcut can now be used to close closable tabs in both the Device and File views.
UDF support has been added.
Improvements:
All drive dialogs close now if their drive has been disconnected.
The sorting view by Date/Extension has been improved. Files with dates greater than today will not appear in the "Invalid Time" folder.
The accuracy of finding and marking files by YTD have been improved.
The analysis of FAT tables for recognized exFAT partitions without boot records has been improved.
Bugfixes:
The Recovery task tab should have been closed on the Abort command if no files recovered. The Abort caption has been improved to "Recovery has been stopped."
The program may have crashed when starting recovery after a source drive was ejected. Fixed.
Many internal, GUI, and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.

Bugfixes:
No file list was shown if recovery was very fast. Fixed.
Import of recovery lists without file IDs didn't work properly. Fixed.
Progress operation dialog boxes may have frozen the program. Fixed.
It was possible to set a subfolder as a default cross-link target that made the folder tree from the target parent folder disappear. The whole folder tree disappeared for Root. Fixed.
The program may have rarely frozen while closing all drive images. Fixed.
Not all folders without parents appeared inside the Extra Found Files section. Some of them appeared as top folders like Root. Fixed.
Several GUI bugs have been fixed.

Bugfixes:
No file list was shown if recovery was very fast. Fixed.
Import of recovery lists without file IDs didn't work properly. Fixed.
Progress operation dialog boxes may have frozen the program. Fixed.
It was possible to set a subfolder as a default cross-link target that made the folder tree from the target parent folder disappear. The whole folder tree disappeared for Root. Fixed.
The program may have rarely frozen while closing all drive images. Fixed.
Not all folders without parents appeared inside the Extra Found Files section. Some of them appeared as top folders like Root. Fixed.
Several GUI bugs have been fixed.

Improvements:
Work under Windows 2000 has been improved.
Support for the latest ReFS 3.14 (Windows 11 25H2) has been added.
Support for the latest Windows Storage Space (Windows 11 25H2) has been added.
A connection to the second activation server will be initiated if a connection to the primary server has failed.
ReFS parsing has been improved, fewer duplicate files will be displayed.
Preview of graphic RAW files has been greatly improved.
Several localizations have been improved: de, es, fr, pt.
The Technician/T80+ versions:
A compression level (not recommended) and split size parameters have been added to the Create Image dialog for runtime images.
Bugfixes:
The second attempt may be necessary to open old RDR images containing ReFS/NTFS/FAT objects. Fixed.
Sometimes, files from the Extra Found Files section were incorrectly associated with files from the Root folder. Fixed.
The previewer could not open some files, even though their icons were displayed correctly. Fixed.
Some weird PDF files were parsed incorrectly. Fixed.
The user's local password was incorrectly used when an SMB Windows connection without a password was initiated.
Several GUI bugs have been fixed.
The Technician/T80+ versions:
Creating VMDK images may have encountered problems if their sizes were over 3.6TB. Fixed. Now, large VMDK images will be automatically split into 2GB volumes when necessary.

Improvements:
Work under Windows 2000 has been improved.
Support for the latest ReFS 3.14 (Windows 11 25H2) has been added.
Support for the latest Windows Storage Space (Windows 11 25H2) has been added.
A connection to the second activation server will be initiated if a connection to the primary server has failed.
ReFS parsing has been improved, fewer duplicate files will be displayed.
Preview of graphic RAW files has been greatly improved.
Several localizations have been improved: de, es, fr, pt.
The Technician/T80+ versions:
A compression level (not recommended) and split size parameters have been added to the Create Image dialog for runtime images.
Bugfixes:
The second attempt may be necessary to open old RDR images containing ReFS/NTFS/FAT objects. Fixed.
Sometimes, files from the Extra Found Files section were incorrectly associated with files from the Root folder. Fixed.
The previewer could not open some files, even though their icons were displayed correctly. Fixed.
Some weird PDF files were parsed incorrectly. Fixed.
The user's local password was incorrectly used when an SMB Windows connection without a password was initiated.
Several GUI bugs have been fixed.
The Technician/T80+ versions:
Creating VMDK images may have encountered problems if their sizes were over 3.6TB. Fixed. Now, large VMDK images will be automatically split into 2GB volumes when necessary.

Improvements:
Work under Windows 2000 has been improved.
Support for the latest ReFS 3.14 (Windows 11 25H2) has been added.
Support for the latest Windows Storage Space (Windows 11 25H2) has been added.
A connection to the second activation server will be initiated if a connection to the primary server has failed.
ReFS parsing has been improved, fewer duplicate files will be displayed.
Preview of graphic RAW files has been greatly improved.
Several localizations have been improved: de, es, fr, pt.
The Technician/T80+ versions:
A compression level (not recommended) and split size parameters have been added to the Create Image dialog for runtime images.
Bugfixes:
The second attempt may be necessary to open old RDR images containing ReFS/NTFS/FAT objects. Fixed.
Sometimes, files from the Extra Found Files section were incorrectly associated with files from the Root folder. Fixed.
The previewer could not open some files, even though their icons were displayed correctly. Fixed.
Some weird PDF files were parsed incorrectly. Fixed.
The user's local password was incorrectly used when an SMB Windows connection without a password was initiated.
Several GUI bugs have been fixed.
The Technician/T80+ versions:
Creating VMDK images may have encountered problems if their sizes were over 3.6TB. Fixed. Now, large VMDK images will be automatically split into 2GB volumes when necessary.

New features:
Support for Windows Storage Spaces up to Windows 11 24H2.
Initialization of one or more devices can be skipped on startup splash screen during startup/refresh.
Added Unmout All command for all mounted objects.
Technician/T80+:
USB activation. A dedicated USB activation stick can be created to eliminate the need to activate a copy of R-Studio Technician over the internet when using this stick. Additionally, startup/bootable and/or portable versions can be installed on this stick making it a complete solution for data recovery.
Support for DeepSpar USB Stabilizer 10GB™, a further development of the DeepSpar Stabilizer. This new device has some additional advanced features:
Simultaneous operation with 3 independent devices.
Maximum data transfer rate of over 800 Mbps.
Real-time device current graphs on their I/O monitor.
Customizable algorithms for unattended operations.
Additional hardware handling commands.
Support for editable advanced multi-pass imaging settings.
Support for consecutive imaging as FS bitmap + Unused clusters and Unused clusters + FS bitmap.
Added some advanced options for a conventional file enumeration and a new mode Show Files (Advanced). This new mode performs file enumeration only in the selected folders. Very useful for slow and damaged disks.
The build-in File Viewer:
Added support for many RAW image file types.
Improvements:
Improved analysis and parsing of NTFS volumes with a large number of hard links.
Improved interactive processing of access, long file names, and other errors.
The build-in File Viewer:
Improved preview for PDF files.
Technician/T80+:
A long recovery list file in the HTML format can now be split into smaller files.
Added a link to hidden devices to the Device viewer panel.
Added a Stop all tasks dialog box
Added a list of recovered files and other information to the Recover files tab.
Changes
Technician/T80+:
The Minimize disk access settings has been moved from Settings/File systems to the Show Files (Adv

Improvements:
Improvements in memory usage during data recovery.
Bugfixes:
Several symbols in the HFS+ file system were processed incorrectly. Fixed.
The slash character (/) may have processed incorrectly in file names of virtual folders like file types, Extra Found Files, and Raw Files. Fixed.