Nextpoint Lab

Nextpoint’s TrialCloud and DiscoveryCloud software now supports importing files directly from EnCase evidence files (E01) and Apple Disk Images (dmg) for all common disk formats — Windows XP, Windows 7, and Mac OS X.

On the import screen, you’ll now find a Disk Image import type, enabled when a valid disk image file has been selected from your S3 folder. These may be single files or multiple split-image files contained in a zip. When this option is used, the uploaded hard drive will be extracted in place and the files it contains will be imported directly from the image as though they’d been opened and imported separately.

At import time, a specific set of files and directories to import may be defined in order to narrow the scope of the uploaded data and avoid processing large amounts of uninteresting documents. Additionally, for disk formats that support it, you may choose to include or exclude system files (those bundled with the operating system itself rather than created by a user, potentially uninteresting during review) and hidden files (most often application preferences and filesystem metadata).

These options, in combination with our DeNIST file filtering feature, allow you to focus in on the important documents from your collected evidence files quickly and easily.