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View pane context, where 1) the Table pane contains a table where only one entry can be 2)
highlighted for further exploration in 3) a tab in the View pane. 4) Checking table entries does not drive
the content displayed in the tab displayed in the View pane. The representation of the highlighted content
is made when you 5) select the desired View pane tab. 6) The Hex tab contains a representation consisting
of an address, the numeric byte values, and the text representation of those numeric byte values.
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The Text Tab
The Text tab shows the highlighted file as ASCII text.
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The Hex Tab
The Hex tab shows a split view of a file with hexadecimal values on the left and ASCII on the
right.
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The Doc Tab
The Doc tab of the View pane uses Oracle Outside In technology to display text in its native
format.
This viewer technology provides application software developers with high‐fidelity document
viewing without having to use native applications for more than 390 file formats on Windows
platforms.
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The Transcript Tab
The Transcript tab uses Oracle Outside In technology to extract text from a file containing more
than text.
The Transcript tab displays plain text content pulled from its non‐plain text native format. This
makes it especially attractive for creating sweeping bookmarks inside files that are not normally
stored as plain text, such as Excel spreadsheets.
The Picture Tab
The Picture tab of the View pane displays the contents of an image file.
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The Report Tab
The Report tab displays a detailed list of file attributes in the View pane.
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The Console Tab
Use the Console tab to view output status messages when running EnScript
®
programs.
The Details Tab
The Details tab provides file extent information.
To view file extents
1.
Open a case and display its contents.
2.
Scroll to the file extents column in the Table pane and click File Extents in some row.
3.
Click the Details tab in the Reports pane to view the file extents.
The figure below shows the first eight file extents from a piece of evidence.
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The Output Tab
Use the Output tab to obtain output from various EnScript
®
programs.
Navigating the Tree Pane
The Tree pane presents a structured view of all gathered evidence in a Windows‐like folder
hierarchy.
Use the structured view when exploring Entries, Bookmarks, Search Hits, Keywords, and other
views of evidence. You can add folders to the structure to suit your working requirements. Note
that some folders have a plus sign (+) next to them. Clicking the plus sign opens the folder and
displays its contents.
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In the figure above, the Documents and Settings folder is expanded to show the five folders it
contains. Note that the symbol next to the open folder is a ‐ sign, indicating the folder is
expanded.
Opening and Closing Folders with Expand/Contract
Use the Edit menu or right‐click in the Tree pane to use Expand/Contract to open or close the
hierarchy at the point of the highlighted item.
To open and close all folders displayed in the Tree pane, do one of the following:
Right‐click the folder and choose Expand/Contract from the right‐click menu.
Click the Expand/Contract icon (+ or ‐).
With the folder highlighted, press the space bar.
Expand All
You can expand all nested folders beneath the highlighted folder with one menu click.
If the entire Tree pane hierarchy is closed, or if one or more folders are open, the entire tree can
be expanded to display all of the contents.
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Use the right‐click Expand All command to show all of the hierarchy. Start at the Entries root to
open all available folders.
Contract All
You can close an entire tree with one menu click. If one or more folders is expanded beneath the
highlighted item, the entire tree is contracted.
Contract the entire table by opening the Edit Menu, then click Contract All.
The hierarchical tree contracts and displays the highlighted item only.
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