RIFIUTI2(1)					      A MS Windows recycle bin analysis tool					       RIFIUTI2(1)

NAME

       rifiuti2 - A MS Windows recycle bin analysis tool

SYNOPSIS

       rifiuti [ -x ] [ -tnl8 ] [ -o outfile ] filename

       rifiuti-vista [ -x ] [ -n8 ] [ -o outfile ] file_or_directory

DESCRIPTION

       Rifiuti2  is  a	rewrite  of rifiuti, a great tool from Foundstone folks for analyzing Windows Recycle Bin INFO2 file.  Analysis of Windows
       Recycle Bin is usually carried out during Windows computer forensics.  Rifiuti2 can extract file deletion time, original path and  size	of
       deleted	files  and whether the deleted files have been moved out from the recycle bin since they are trashed.  Rifiuti2 supports the INFO2
       file format found in Windows up to Windows XP and the new file format found in Vista, and the program is fully  internationalized.  If  you
       need  to  analyse  recycle bins of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, you should use the rifiuti-vista command, for other Windows plat-
       forms, you should use the rifiuti command.

       Quoting from original Foundstone page:

	      Many computer crime investigations require the reconstruction of a subject's Recycle Bin. Since this analysis technique is  executed
	      regularly,  we  researched  the  structure of the data found in the Recycle Bin repository files (INFO2 files). Rifiuti, the Italian
	      word meaning "trash", was developed to examine the contents of the INFO2 file in the Recycle Bin. ... Rifiuti is built  to  work	on
	      multiple platforms and will execute on Windows (through Cygwin), Mac OS X, Linux, and *BSD platforms."

       Since  the original rifiuti (last updated 2004) is restricted to English version of Windows (fail to analyze any non-latin character), thus
       this rewrite. But it does more:

	 * Supports Windows in any other languages besides English
	 * Supports Vista and 2008 (they don't use INFO2 file any more)
	 * Enables localization (that is, translatable)
	 * More rigorous error checking
	 * Supports output in XML format

OPTIONS

       These are plain text output options:

       -t --delimiter=STRING
	      String to use as delimiter (TAB by default)

       -n --no-heading
	      Don't show header

       -l --legacy-filename
	      Show legacy filename instead of unicode

       -8 --always-utf8
	      Always show file names in UTF-8 encoding

	      These are general application Options:

       -o --output=FILE
	      Write output to FILE

       -x --xml
	      Output in XML format (-t, -n, -l, -8 options will have no effect)

       --from-encoding=ENC
	      The assumed file name character set when no unicode file name is present in INFO2 record (mandatory if  INFO2  file  is  created	by
	      Win98, useless otherwise)

COPYRIGHT

       Part of the work of Rifiuti2 is derived from Rifiuti, both pieces of software are licensed under the simplified BSD license.

AUTHOR

       The main author of Rifiuti2 is Abel Cheung, and Anthony Wong helps in some packaging and documentation work (like this manpage).  The orig-
       inal author of Rifiuti is Keith J Jones.

0.5.0								    2008-11-21							       RIFIUTI2(1)