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Have you ever deleted an important file before?

Aug 7, 2015 4:50PM PDT
Have you ever deleted an important file before?

-- Yes, and it was lost forever. (Did you learn your lesson?)
-- Yes, but it was recovered. (How did you recover it?)
-- Yes, but it was backed up. (Good for you!)
-- No, but had a very close call. (What happened?)
-- Never. (Lucky or are you just very careful?)

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Lee, you asked this a week or two ago, why the repeat?
Aug 7, 2015 4:56PM PDT

The first time you asked I replied that you could easily use Previous Versions. Of course I always to automatic full system backups too. But why are you asking this again?

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It's part of the CNET community newsletter...
Aug 7, 2015 5:18PM PDT
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Sure, sign me up for the newsletter. Looks enlightening.
Aug 7, 2015 6:14PM PDT

By the way, your dad is only 8 years older than me. Wink

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Reading the Community Newsletter may better help you ..
Aug 7, 2015 5:57PM PDT
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used Un-delete
Aug 8, 2015 4:55AM PDT

I once deleted a file with my pictures and videos by mistake.I used a program called Un-delete but all I could recover were my photos.The videos were scrambled.

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Yes, and it was lost forever
Aug 8, 2015 6:14AM PDT

I certainly learned a lesson since I had to manually write everything once again. This happened in mid 1980's and I've always used a backup program since then.

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I haven't, but-
Aug 10, 2015 1:09PM PDT

I have been fairly lucky, I never have done it. but several years ago I had an IT person jump the gun and reimaged my computer as part of an upgrade without telling me so I could back up my files. I had just backed them up a month prior, but in a work environment . . .. That employee is gone now. I wasn't the only one they screwed.

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Deleted and recovered a whole 10 GB folder
Aug 11, 2015 1:10AM PDT

I accidentally deleted a music folder on my secondary drive; luckily not on my C: drive. The music was collected and organised over some years. I thought I had a backup bud I didn't... So I used Easeus Data Recovery. The only thing I had to input was the folder name. It scanned overnight, and came up with the complete file structure. But after recovering, most files appeared twice in the folders. Each time one was ok, the other was garbage; sounded like movies. So I was happy. Most recovered files play and are ok, though I already found 2 or 3 that don't play completely and/or have missing parts. Oh yes, and all files have the same date of creation now...

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fixing music and video files
Aug 11, 2015 2:19AM PDT
" ...though I already found 2 or 3 that don't play completely and/or have missing parts. "

If you use an editor, you can cut the problem areas and gain better functionality of them. Sometimes jus t opening the file in the editor and then saving it to a new name corrects the problem.
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I FORMATTED THE WHOLE DRIVE
Aug 12, 2015 10:18AM PDT

I was setting up a new windows when by fault I formatted the whole Drive, but thankfully after few days I searched and knew that there are file that can recover your formatted files from your hard drive Happy

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Yes, but it was recovered.
Aug 14, 2015 1:14AM PDT

To restore factory Settings Shocked But limited to the configuration of the computer itself.
Or looking for a computer expert to help you.

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YES
Aug 18, 2015 3:26AM PDT

Yes, and it was lost forever.
(Did you learn your lesson?)
Yes I am now backing up all my data!

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Of course!!
Aug 25, 2015 2:15PM PDT

Of course!! Has not everybody? I usually can recover that file using many and various techniques.