HELP!!! End of ROPE!!!

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paul

I accidentally deleted a user account and lost my very
valuable "my documents" folder. I have tried various
undelete programs but none have found all of the info.
PLEASE HELP!!!
 
paul said:
I accidentally deleted a user account and lost my very
valuable "my documents" folder.
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Well, that _was_ clever, wasn't it?

Really, you plebs should not be let anywhere near technology. Get an abacus.
 
Lord_Night said:
U can try going to safe mode and logging in under your
administrator account and see if the document folder is
still there,
also you could try system restore.

short of that... your document folder is history.
Sorry

Richard
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Stating the obvious, do you have a back-up you can go to? As Michael
Solomon, a regular contributor to these ng's says, it's a PC User's best
friend.

The suggestion is worth making because it's easy to miss - I recently spent
time sorting out a problem I had caused in an Access Db when all I had to do
was go to a back-up I had made a few days earlier!

Gold luck

Peter
 
Peter T said:
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Stating the obvious, do you have a back-up you can go to? As Michael
Solomon, a regular contributor to these ng's says, it's a PC User's best
friend.

The suggestion is worth making because it's easy to miss - I recently spent
time sorting out a problem I had caused in an Access Db when all I had to do
was go to a back-up I had made a few days earlier!

Gold luck

Peter
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With the cost of CD'R's being what they are--around25 cents each, I make
monthly copies of that folder.

Malv
 
Hi Lord_Night. For future reference you should be aware that the My
Documents Folder is protected from System Restore so that process won't
restore the contents of that folder. This is by design so that if SR is used
to roll back in time it won't cause data saved in that location to be lost.
 
paul the more you use the computer the more likely your deleted files are
being overwritten. So stop using the computer, do not shut it down, do not
access the internet or take e-mail. All of those activities will write files
to the hard drive and therefore overwrite your data. You may need to help of
a recovery service to get back lost files.

You should also be aware that deleted files may have had their names
changed. If you use Restoration for example
http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/ you will find that .TXT files will
appears as DC001.txt; DC002.txt and so forth, while other files may still
bear their original names.
 
Is that how you learnt to get around? It shows!!
Perdita X. Dream said:
Well, that _was_ clever, wasn't it?

Really, you plebs should not be let anywhere near technology. Get an abacus.
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hermes said:
While listening to the voices in their head blather on endlessly about
inspecific gibberish, paul typed:

Is it possible that it is in the recycle bin? Did you empty the
recycle bin after deleting the user profile or folder? HTH &GL!
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Unfortunately, if you fail to check the "save files" option when deleting,
they are gone, unless you have access to a third-party undelete tool AFAIK
 
While listening to the voices in their head blather on endlessly about
inspecific gibberish, paul typed:
:: I accidentally deleted a user account and lost my very
:: valuable "my documents" folder. I have tried various
:: undelete programs but none have found all of the info.
:: PLEASE HELP!!!

Is it possible that it is in the recycle bin? Did you empty the recycle bin
after deleting the user profile or folder? HTH &GL!
 
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