Ah sorry, I didn't see your reference to the gui app, I've not used that. If your using bconsole you must add files using `mark` and then when done issue `done`.
I've never recovered using bscan before, but according to the manual you can:
I did drag'n'dropped a whole directory into the bottom area of the brestore panel (in Bat software).
Can bscan insert files that aren't available anymore into the catalog?
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