How to Restore Empty Folders

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This article applies to Retrospect 6.1 and earlier  for Macintosh and Retrospect 7.x and later for Windows.

Empty folders will be restored by default when you do a restore via the Restore Entire Disk (or Entire Volume with Retrospect 6.0 and later) option. If you don’t wish to restore the entire disk, you may still restore your empty folders using the steps below.

Go to Immediate>Restore and in the dialog which follows, select "Restore an entire disk" (the top radio button). Retrospect 6.0 and later users can just select Restore>Entire Volume. Then select the source backup set and Snapshot. At the destination window, select your target volume and, from the pop-up menu, choose any restore method other than "Retrieve just files."

Now, in the files chosen Browser, double-click either the root of the source volume or an entire enclosing folder which contains empty folders. Empty folders will be highlighted but not marked. When you execute the restore, all the enclosed empty folders will be restored. No other combination of restore types or file selection will restore any empty folders.

Warning: Be very careful when restoring. If you choose "Restore entire" or "Replace corresponding files" in the restore method pop-up menu, Retrospect will replace and/or delete files on the destination volume.

Click "Restore" on the right side of the screen

Select "Entire Volume" from the main directory window (although we won’t be restoring an entire volume)

Select the Backup Set and Snapshot and click okay

Select a destination.

Change the pop-up menu from "Replace Entire Disk" to "Retrieve Files and Folders". Click OK

Go to Files Chosen. Now, in the files chosen Browser, double-click either the root of the source volume or an entire enclosing folder which contains empty folders. Empty folders will be highlighted but not marked. When you execute the restore, all the enclosed empty folders will be restored. No other combination of restore types or file selection will restore any empty folders.

Last Update: April 3, 2012