Well, depending on your deleting habits you might have experienced this at some point. As for ‘habits’, I have a habit of ‘shift’ deleting anything I don’t need, when you delete a file holding the shift key, it skips the recycle bin and deletes it directly. Now, sometimes, when deleting multiple files you might select one you need as well and delete it permanently, or even a single file out of pure carelessness, or sometimes you just might delete a file even after it gets to the recycle bin only to realize you needed the file sometime later.
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Of course, you could just redownload the file or recreate it depending on the type of file, however sometimes it could be an original that cannot be recreated like a photo album of an important occasion for example.
Thankfully, while I kept mentioning ‘permanently’ above when the file is gone from the recycle bin too, there’s still hope! While it is still deleted, the files, sometimes fragments or even the full untouched file remains o the hard disk and maybe recovered.
This depends mainly on the size of the file and how recently the file was deleted. Smaller more recent files are most likely to be recovered while if you are lucky larger, older files maybe recovered too. The easiest and fastest route to getting to these files is via utilities below I have highlighted three applications that does the job very well.
Recuva (freeware) is from the same developers that bring you CCleaner, and in my opinion, it is one of the best tools for this. Light weight and with an easy to use interface, Recuva scans your local or external drives based on any keywords you may specify and displays them with their path, condition (excellent, poor, etc.) and file name of course. You can then tick the files you want recovered and click the recover button.
Restoration is a tiny utility with a basic interface that does pretty much the same Recuva does, Restoration also allows you to specify a file name to base its search on however doesn’t provide details on whether it is recoverable or not.
Undeleting files is just of the utilities in the range of applets this ‘suite’ provides, TuneUp utilities does a similar job to the previous software, however I found it to be faster and a tad more efficient, not worth for $50 if you are looking to just restore your files, however it provides an array of several features to optimize all aspects of your computer.
None of the above can completely guarantee that you could successfully recover your files even if the application states the ‘condition’ of the file to be excellent, however, while it’s pretty much hit or miss it’s still worth giving it a try.
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