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36. Encase 7 processing steps

Evidence Processor (EP)
options  
Execution
Steps  
View
Results                                                 
Additional
Steps
PE Recover Folders Only for FAT and NTFS Entries Tab
Tree View Panel
.Lost Files
.Recovered Folders
       
PE Expand Compound Files Includes ZIP, DOCX, etc.    
PE Find Email Search for specific email storage files PST/PBX/MBX etc. Records Tab Evidence Tab
In Table View right-click and View File Structure
Webmail:
PE File Carver
Carve HTML Carve Webmail Files
Records Tab    
PE Find Internat Artifacts
Search Unallocated Space
Parses index.dat of IE and similar files of other browsers Records Tab  
Evidence Tab   Filter...   Results Tab View a subset of evidence items
Search Tab
Index Search
Use AND and OR logic. See Encase Help for additional query options  
Uses transcript of PDF and other compound files       Search Tab
Results Tab

In the bottom View area, use
Find Next
Previous Item
Next Item
to iterate through the matching items.
Use green Play button to execute index query.

Note that results are displayed in the Search Tab but also duplicated in the Results Tab. Supposedly, the results tab appears "less cluttered"
PE Keyword Search
or Evidence Tab
Raw Search
Global keyword search. Keyword are saved in the case cache Search Tab
Keyword hits
Results Tab  
Use green Play button to execute keyword query.

The keywords must be selected to be included in the query  
Entries Tab
Tree View
Selected Items
Raw Search
allows to search selectively inside the evidence tree. See textbook p 354 for details.

Options:
Search Entry Slack allows searching for FAT32 directory entries and inside file slack
Search Initialized Size for NTFS only. Searches only what user would see in the file.
Undelete Entries Before Searching searches across cluster boundaries
Search Tab
Keyword hits
Results Tab
Use green Play button to execute keyword query.

Note: the keywords must be saved in a separate .keyword file

The keywords must be selected to be included in the query
       
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