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- 8/30/06 12:49 PM
How many times have you accidentally deleted a file?
by Marc Bennett - 8/30/06 12:49 PM
How many times have you accidentally deleted a file and found that you couldn't recover it?
Never - I'm always careful
once (tell us what happened)
2 - 4 (tell us what happened)
5 - 10 (tell us what happened)
11 - 20 (tell us what happened)
over 20 (really?!)
Many, many times!
by MarkFlax - 8/31/06 9:48 AM
In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
Painful memories.
I cannot remember how many times I have deleted files and even whole folders/directories, then thinking ''Ooops!'', then swearing the roof off my house/office/wherever it happened.
It is well over 20 files, in fact it ranges into hundreds.
The best way to delete a file is in DOS. I won't share how to people who don't use DOS, (it's not available in Windows XP but is in others), to avoid having irate members come back here swearing to rip my head off when they tried it themsleves and found there is no Recycle Bin in DOS and no return.
The best way in Windows is the keyboard + Mouse click that bypasses the Recycle Bin. Again, I won't explain the method for those who don't know for fear of my life, but bypassing the Recycle Bin means just that. Pufff! Gone!
Fortunately I have never deleted system critical files, but I have deleted weeks work of stuff before now.
Mark
CMD
by Merranvo - 9/3/06 1:57 AM In reply to: Many, many times! by MarkFlax
(it's not available in Windows XP but is in others)
Dos is everywhere, it is not 'activly involved' in xp but it is there. And this time around you have 2 versions of dos, your good friend dos, and XP dos (cmd).
I've only deleted something on accident once...
by aka_tripleB - 9/1/06 2:41 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
But it was the only entire partition on my external hard drive. Nothing important was lost, it was mostly used as a backup for my music files, so I still had everything because it was just backup. But it did **** me off that I had to put it all back on there.
The story behind this is, I was reloading Windows onto my computer and the drive was still attached to my PC so it showed up on the boot screen. I though for some reason my HDD was partitioned into 2 drives, and it only being an 80 GB drive, I didn't want it to be. So I delete the partitions only to find out that they were 2 separate physical drives. Then I realized what I had done. I yelled, nothing terrible, because it was only a minor inconvence putting everything back on the drive. And the fact that I had the original copies of everything still, I just reloaded from them rather than to try to restore anything. Don't get me wrong, I did try one thing, but it wasn't like I took the time to really make sure I couldn't restore the data.
Accidentally deleted files
by rene kort - 9/1/06 2:57 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
I had once formatted my C-disk from a Dos-window without realising that another partition with importand data was on the same drive. Besides I thouht I had a backup of this data, which of course I didn't check.
Thats why hard drive recovery was invented
by OliMouse - 9/1/06 3:02 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
I used a hard drive recovery program to get back photos that had been deleted and the hard drive had been fully reformated. This did not stop the program (as it was not a cheapie) and i got every photo back. Iy couldnt be more simple as they do a deep scan for 5+ hours depending on size and then you select what files you want brought back from the dead.
programs that may be usefull:
-nortan ghost 10.
-get back data.
-recover my files.
FILE RECOVERY-ENCOUNTER
by SFAQL - 9/1/06 3:39 AM In reply to: Thats why hard drive recovery was invented by OliMouseI am learning to use the computer and have lost files on a number of occasions in the last three weeks.The techy I use said he would install a programme to prevent a windows re-installation for the fourth time in three weeks.He installed acronis true image and set up a partition on the hard drive.He says now,what ever mistakes I make can be fixed up in under 15 minutes.It will reload windows,all programmes and settings exactly how it was before I destroyed the files.Is there somebody who can say whether this was the correct action to take in this case? Any advice would be appreciated.
am learning to use the computer and have
by sasquatchll - 9/1/06 12:46 PM In reply to: FILE RECOVERY-ENCOUNTER by SFAQLI use Acronis True Image myself. It is reliable and un-noticable running at a very low priority in the background.
It is still better to keep on learning so you will be more adept at trying out for geekdom. Still, very few of us do not on occasion suffer a brain f**t and delete an important file. Shoot, I killed a whole partition once. I formatted the wrong drive for an XP re-install once. I have 20+ years of experience but that shows me to never underestimate myself.
By the way. I used Active Undelete and recovered the whole partition. Even though I had used fdisk to format it.
Deleting Files
by Levis Ouellet - 9/1/06 3:18 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
I learned many years ago to be super careful when deleting files. I once deleted and lost for good a beautiful picture of my wife and our young grand daughter...a once in a lifetime digital picture. I deleted by mistake before burning it to a cd and only noticed this many weeks later.
Rest assure that this has not happened again. I now have two drives. I move the files to my spare hard drive while I work with the copies on my C Drive. Once done with my editing...etc....I burn the files onto a cd/dvd. I leave the files on the spare drive for a while and make sure the cd burn has performed correctly and that I am able to retrieve the files easily.
Outlook express file were deleted
by bfrieday - 9/1/06 4:23 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
I went in to change the adminstrator in windows xp and then found that all my e-mails in Outlook Express had been deleted. I don't know where they went and have never recovered them. I could use help on that.
You can recover what was lost!
by corbos - 9/1/06 5:22 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
I used Norton System Works to recover my deleted files and they were just fine. It is somewhat complicated to use so read everything, but it does get the job done. Thank You Norton!
After accidentally deleting important files
by dwango - 9/1/06 5:55 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
I've used software called "Undelete". It takes a long time to run, but it's worked every time.
never lost a file
by brescia - 9/1/06 6:36 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
I have never had this problem because I with so much memory I hardly ever delete files. When I do I save a copy on a portable hard drive.
But not in 20 years
by geordie - 9/1/06 6:39 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
In university we ran MTS on an IBM 370/168 and you could add the confirmation onto the line, so you would say "del filename y" and it wouldn't say "are you sure", I was abit quick on the draw one day.
But my serious error was on a Sun3/80, I was logged in as root and had been messing about with new accounts. I wanted to abandon my attempts and I thought I was in a subdirectory like /home/fred and wanted to delete all my attempts so I typed something like "cd ..;rm -rf *". Then the machine started behaving strangely. I had been in "/home" and I'd just told it to delete everything on my one and only disk. Fortunately I backed up every night, so I only lost half a day of work.
These days I keep everything important under source code control and on a server that is backed up twice a day to off-site storage. At home I duplicate all important files onto three disks, one external and two on separate machines. I also seldom delete anything, it takes a long while to fill a 300Gb drive.
With Unix/Linux, your files are "more gone"
by doon41 - 9/1/06 6:43 AM In reply to: How many times have you accidentally deleted a file? by Marc Bennett
A few times, over maybe 15 years, I inadvertently deleted files. At worst, maybe a couple pages of typing.
The important thing to note is this: If you are working with files located on a server, and you do not have a local copy, you are more likely to lose the data irretrievably. This is of course due to the way server systems "recycle" storage space, plus the fact that an ordinary user normally will not have the admin powers to attempt file retrieval on a server used by others. Another argument for "local control", and why you should be sure that your application keeps a local copy as backup of your work.
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