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About DMDE
Known Issues and Other Limitations
Data Recovery
- Data recovery destination is paritions/volumes supported by OS (in particular, DOS and Win9x/ME support only FAT as a destination)
- DOS, Win9x/ME: unicode symbols in file names outside the selected code page are replaced with "_" or transliterated according to the loaded translit tables
- DOS, Win9x/ME or FAT: unable to recover file greater than 4GB as a single file due to a FAT limitation
- File hard links are recovered as different files
- Symbolic links are not supported
- NTFS alternate streams can be recovered to NTFS volumes only
- NTFS directories alternate data streams can be recovered only after FS reconstruction
- NTFS encrypted file recovery up to 4GB
- NTFS permissions and owners are not supported
- Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 permissions and owners are not supported
- Win9x/ME: drives greater then 128GB are not handled correctly without special patches applied to Windows drivers
- Maximum path length supported: 259 characters for DOS, 4096 for Windows, Linux
- Maximum path length supported by DOS: 79 or 127 characters (for DOS-names) depending on DOS version.
- Subdirectory depth is up to 1024 (can be increased using maxrecoverdepth= parameter)
- If name substitution is used under DOS then name handling
(such as auto renaming) is not supported
NTFS write support
- Journal is not supported
- SECURITY INFORMATION is not supported on creation
(to access files and directories it is necessary to set permissions using OS features)
- OBJECTID is not supported
- Additional creation of DOS-compatible names is not supported
- Compressed files are not supported
- Alternate data streams are not supported
- To allocate/append a file a contiguous free space is required
Other
- the software may work within the available RAM.
32-bit versions may use up to 3GB of RAM only (up to ~10 million files/streams and 2 million directories);
DOS extenders may provide even less memory
- up to 2K windows/panels/objects for GUI version, or width-limited for console
- up to 2K items in the list of Devices
- up to 16K custom data rotation items (striping) when constructing Custom RAID
- up to 2K visible items per section for Full Scan
(showvolumesnum= parameter)
- up to 16 million MFT fragments of NTFS for Full Scan
(ntfsmaxmftruns= parameter)
- maximum search depth for File Panel Search is up to 1K directories
- keyboard and mouse input is limited in Linux (keyboard shortcuts and national input may not be supported)