Thanks for the replies.
I belong to a few forums and know this is not "support". And know Piriform has a lot of users and been around a long time.
Given the reason for and nature of Recuva, my particular situation and the amount of users you pretty much usually get a
quicker response, As i've heard/read its possible to recover and have better chances with less writing to a disk, that includes
starting/booting, plus there re ways to recover using cache/memory/temp unless ofcourse you shut down.
So I figured the amount of time I waited was absolutely reasonable given the dire need. As far as being annoyed because
I repied to my own post and NOT to thread bump as you call it, but because of the situation that just seems like a bad attitude.
Sorry if I "expected" more or a quicker response in my situation and from what I feel is a very big community.
Thread bump NEVER entered my not so tech/computer/forum what ever you want to call it, literate mind.
I know the 2 functons are completely different functions, the names imply that, and as you put it, "Design quirk", since
Secure file deletion is in the same Box or frame or Title as Restore Folder structure (I would have designed the GUI or whatever better if it were me, but that's me) it makes one wonder what is going to take place.
Maybe a design quirk is going to delete the files as you try to recover or as it's copying or something.
Pchat is an irc program. The reason I mentioned making a clone or image of the thing is because of the writing issue,
if you can make a clone or image and "try to recover" from that you're much better off that way you don't keep accessing the original.
My turn to not understand something, "You can read your flash drive as many times as you want without danger",
not real sure what this means, when using Recuva or a recovery program? I can't access it to begin with.