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title: "Step 4. Select Files to Restore"
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# Step 4. Select Files to Restore

In the File-Level Recovery Explorer, you can browse and restore files and folders of the selected Azure VM. All recovered items will be saved in a single .ZIP archive to the default download directory on a local machine from which you access the File-Level Recovery Explorer, or will be restored to the original Azure VM.

To recover files and folders from a specific folder, perform the following steps:

1. On the **Browse** tab, select the location of the files and folders that you want to restore:

   1. Select a volume and navigate to the folder that contains the necessary files and folders.
   2. In the working area, select check boxes next to the necessary items and click **Add to Restore List**.

   ::: note

   During file-level recovery from Linux-based Azure VMs, all files and folders are structured according to their physical location. That is why the file system tree displayed in the File-Level Recovery Explorer may differ from the logical file system tree of the processed Azure VM.

   :::

2. Switch to the **Restore List** tab, review the list of files and folders, select check boxes next to the items that you want to restore and click **Download**.

   As soon as you click **Download**, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure will save the selected files to your local machine.

[![](images/restore_vm_files_select.png)](images/restore_vm_files_select.png){.toggle scale=60}