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Does not find LATEST deleted file


Rocky Lane

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This is the second time I used Recuva (Free Version) to try to recover I file I just deleted by mistake. It finds every other deleted file but the one I just deleted. I have successfully recovered older files but it just doesn't see a current deleted file for some reason. I was hoping to purchase the Professional version but will it fail like my current version? Thanks.

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The prof version will not find any more files than the free version.

 

There are (at least) three aspects here.

 

1) If the file was sent to the recycler before being deleted then it may have been renamed by Windows, to $Rnnnnnn.ext, So you could look for that,

 

2) If you're doing a normal scan then the file details may have been lost from the MFT: if you run a deep scan you might find the file, by now un-named.

 

3) It is quite common for a recently deleted file not to be found. NTFS (if that is what you are using) reuses deleted records in the MFT so it may well be (I don't know, I didn't write NTFS) that it uses a record that is still in memory - yours. Try the deep scan.

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