Hi all.
I accidently shift-deleted (yes, shift-delete) my "Documents" folder in Vista.
I have searched the entire drive with Enable Deep Scan checked, but it will not find the files. It does find many previously deleted files - Like it finds
MANY from c:\users\MyName\AppData...but NOT ANY from c:\users\MyName\Documents
Can anyone help me with why Recuva cannot fild the files I deleted? Any other ideas?
Thank you!
Full Version: Accidently Shift-Deleted "Documents" folder from Vista
I guess that you're saying that you can't see any entry in the path column for c:\users\MyName\Documents? If so, I don't know why the folder name isn't showing. Recuva does show a lot of file names with c:\?\ as the folder name, so it seems that it sometimes can't interpret the path correctly.
It may well be that the majority of the files are found by Recuva, but without a folder name it will be difficult to find them to get them all back.
It may well be that the majority of the files are found by Recuva, but without a folder name it will be difficult to find them to get them all back.
QUOTE (Augeas @ May 18 2009, 10:54 AM) 
I guess that you're saying that you can't see any entry in the path column for c:\users\MyName\Documents? If so, I don't know why the folder name isn't showing. Recuva does show a lot of file names with c:\?\ as the folder name, so it seems that it sometimes can't interpret the path correctly.
It may well be that the majority of the files are found by Recuva, but without a folder name it will be difficult to find them to get them all back.
It may well be that the majority of the files are found by Recuva, but without a folder name it will be difficult to find them to get them all back.
I did find a lot of files with the path c:\?\ .
Then I searched within the results in Recuva for a specific file name that was in the Documents folder, and the file was not there.
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