Deleted desktop files--HELP!!!

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Hi Stacy,

To try and retrieve your deleted files, you would want to use an undelete
utility. These are commonly available for free, and work on the premise that
the space the file formerly occupied has not been overwritten with new data
yet. Once that has occured, recovery requires more extensive (and expensive)
work with dedicated forensic tools by someone who knows what they are doing.

This one here works quite well for basic file recovery:
http://www.collina.us/files/REST2514.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
This may be a moot point now, but in the future when you delete something or
empty your Recycle Bin and want to recover something from it. Stop using
the computer. Your recovery chances are better if the file has not been
overwritten.

Restoration Version 2.5.14 Author: Brian Kato
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

Description
[[Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while
holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another
function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You
can use it after deletion of confidential documents, embarrassing files and
so on.]]
 
I gave it a try. No luck. Thanks for the info. for the future!!
I don't know where it all went. I was in another program that was showing
all my desktop file. I did not want them all to be visible so I chose to
delete them thinking it would delete them from being visible in the program
but not from my desktop for good. Sometimes you just lose! but thanks for the
help!
 
No luck here either. Thanks for the info. for the future!! Nothing seems to
work.
I was in another program that was showing all my desktop file. I did not
want them all to be visible so I chose to delete them thinking it would
delete them from being visible in the program but not from my desktop for
good.
But thanks for the help!
 
Hi Stacy,

Sorry it didn't help. I would check under other user profiles as well, just
to be sure. Otherwise, you have learned a valuable lesson about backing up.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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