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  59 <h2><img src="../../images/apps-images/diskprobe-icon_64.png" alt="diskprobe-icon_64.png" width="64" height="64" />DiskProbe</h2>
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  61 <tr><td>Deskbar:</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td><span class="menu">Applications</span></td></tr>
  62 <tr><td>Location:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">/boot/system/apps/DiskProbe</span></td></tr>
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  66 <p>DiskProbe is a HEX editor to view and alter data of a file or on a device on a byte-level. It's a very low-level tool and has therefore the potential to really mess things up if you're not careful!</p>
  67 <div class="box-warning">Always work with the backup of a file and be extra careful when working directly on a device.</div>
  68 <p>When starting DiskProbe you'll first be asked for the file or the device to work on. After that you are presented with this interface:</p>
  69 <p><img id="diskprobe" src="../images/apps-images/diskprobe.png" alt="diskprobe.png" /></p>
  70 <p>The main view shows always one block of data, the size of which can be adjusted with <span class="menu">View | BlockSize</span>. To the left is the offset to the start of the block, in the middle the data as HEX values and to the right the same as ASCII symbols.<br />
  71 You can move from block to block with the slider above or with <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">←</span> and <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">→</span> and switch between the HEX and ASCII columns with <span class="key">TAB</span>.</p>
  72 <p><span class="menu">Block | Selection</span> will not only show the selection with different endianess (and in HEX or decimal, set by <span class="menu">View | Base</span>), it will also interprete the selection as a block offset that you can jump to. It will be grayed out if the position is outside of the file/device.<br />
  73 This is a handy feature mostly when looking at file systems, as they often contain pointers to other blocks.</p>
  74 <p>If the file you're probing includes attributes, the <span class="menu">Attributes</span> menu can be used to open any of them in a new DiskProbe window. Here's the SYS:PACKAGE attribute of the <span class="app">AboutSystem</span> application:
  75 </p><p><img id="diskprobe-attribute" src="../images/apps-images/diskprobe-about-attr.png" alt="diskprobe-about-attr.png" /></p>
  76 <p>Depending on the kind of attribute, you'll get a different editor tab besides the always present <i>Raw Editor</i>. For example, there are editors for strings and MIME types or an icon viewer for the vectoricon attribute.</p>
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