Operation Manual

Acronis vmProtect 8 File Recovery wizard has the built-in search feature. The search box is located in

the top right corner above the files and folders list. You can use the search when you don’t know the

exact file name you want to restore. You can filter files and folders in the list, and see only those that

match any of the search criteria called “file masks”.

You can use one or more wildcard characters “*” and “?” as a file mask, for example:

“C:\Finance\*.*”.

Also, you can sort the search results by any of the columns: name, date and time modified, size, and

folder. If you select to sort first by a certain field, for example, by time, you can then select to sort by

another field, for example, by name. In this case your data will have a sorting of 2 levels, first the

name, and then the time. So you can easily find the needed files for recovery.

After you’ve selected all the files you would like to recover, click the Download button. You will see

the default browser pop-up window (as for the right mouse click -> Save target as… pop-up) where

you can select the destination for saving the selected backup files. All files and folders you selected

will be downloaded there as a single .zip archive.

Note that File Recovery cannot be sucessfully done for the file names containing any invalid

character: * : ? « < > | / \. For restoring such files please use Run VM from backup operation.