deleting music files

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I believe that I may have accidently deleted all my downloaded music...is
there anyway to get the files back???
 
melred12105 said:
I believe that I may have accidently deleted all my downloaded music...is
there anyway to get the files back???
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Unless they are in the recycle bin, you are in for a very hard and expensive
lesson.
You may be able to recover them if you have not written anything to the
disk. It takes third party software.
Jim
 
melred12105 said:
I believe that I may have accidently deleted all my downloaded
music...is there anyway to get the files back???
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First try the recycle bin. If not there, read the following:

"Deleting" a file doesn't actually delete it; it just marks the space as
available to be used. There are third-party programs that can sometimes
recover deleted files. The problem is that the space used by the file is
likely to become overwritten very quickly, and this makes the file
unrecoverable.

So your chances of successfully recovering this file are decent if you try
recovering it immediately after deleting it, and rapidly go downhill from
there. If you've been using the computer since then (for example to write
this question and read this answer), your chances are probably very poor by
now.

But if the file is important enough, it's worth a try anyway. Stop using the
computer in question immediately, if you haven't done so already. Download
an undelete program (here's one:
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html but there are several others
to choose from; do a Google search) on a friend's computer and bring it to
yours on a floppy to try.

If this fails, your only other recourse is to take the drive to a
professional file recovery company. This kind of service is very expensive
and may or may not work in your case.
 
melred12105 said:
I believe that I may have accidently deleted all my downloaded music...is
there anyway to get the files back???
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take the advice the others have given...
but it's important that you stop using your computer at once...
the more you use it, the greater the chance the files will be overwritten
 
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