Make Recuva stop creating "Unknown Folder" on recovery?

[norel]

If I recover a folder named "e-Books" for example, and recover it to E:\, instead of just recovering e-Books to E:\ it always creates another folder named "Unknown Folder" with the recovered folder in it. Then I have to cut and paste the recovered folder to get it out. If it's very big this can take forever on a USB stick. Is there any way to make recuva stop creating this extra folder? I can see its usefulness when recovering a bunch of files, but when there's already a folder you don't need another one. I never check "Create new folder" by the way. Thanks.

[Nergal]

This is because you have "restore folder structure" checked. and are recovering a file with a unknown folder. (i.e. something like path of c:\?\{subfoldername}\ )

 

if you don't want unknown folders either turn off "restore folder structure" or don't restore any files that have unknown locations.

[Alan_B]

Then I have to cut and paste the recovered folder to get it out. If it's very big this can take forever on a USB stick.

Are you sure that it is the extra folder that wastes time ?

Could the delay be due to your pasting to a different partition or drive, in which case the excess folder makes no difference.

 

Cut and Paste NEVER takes more than a fraction of a second for me ever since Windows Explorer replaced the original File Manager,

excepting for when the new destination is to a different partition / Drive,

or when Windows File Protection suspends everything whilst it duplicates the original into a System Restore Point and or dllcache.

 

This has been my experience with both FAT32 and NTFS on Hard Drives and I would be surprised if a Flash Drive gave different results.

[norel]

You're right Nergal. I didn't think about that. Thanks.