What are people using for file recovery these days? The MIL has managed to delete her entire My Documents folder

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Restore from scheduled back up. Oh, doesn't she have one...?

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There cannot be a single more infuriating response to hear, or a more smug one to give, then to hear/say something about backups when you/someone else has lost all their stuff

Backups are fine until the person the 71 year old woman has been conned into giving access to the computer deletes them and everything else on there.

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Cut the plug off & install one of those emergency red cord pull things.

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Recuva from Piriform is good for restoring the occasionally deleted file.

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JL said...

There cannot be a single more infuriating response to hear, or a more smug one to give, then to hear/say something about backups when you/someone else has lost all their stuff

Really? Excellent bullseye hit on the first reply

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DeskJockey said...

Recuva from Piriform is good for restoring the occasionally deleted file.

+1

There are portable versions about

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Cheers fellas. I'll give it a go.

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NotoriousREV said...

Backups are fine until the person the 71 year old woman has been conned into giving access to the computer deletes them and everything else on there.

Cnuts the lot of them, we were pestered several times a day until we started screwing around with them.

Carl.

here is a cool tool you can try to recover lost files, and i tried a few times (but but..the free version only can detect not recover, so think twice before using it,lol). hit me if you still want to know...

Updated December 19, 2012 at 10:05 AM