How Do I UNDELETE?

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My WIFE called me from work and she was on her terminal and deleted some
files, (thinking it was deleting ONLY from her terminal) and when she went to
the Host she found she had deleted from the host (she isn't the sharpest
knife in the drawer, when it comes to computers and refuses to read Windows
for DUMMIES) I told her to go to restore, and when she did, it was OFF and
not monitoring.
The recyle bin was EMPTY and she says the files never went there. SHe has
NOT turned off any of the computers yet. ISN'T there a UNDELETE command that
can be used? how I am not the sharpest knife when it comes to Network. THey
have Windows XP on the host and I believe 98 SE on hers.
Thanks.
 
Craig A. said:
My WIFE called me from work and she was on her terminal and deleted some
files, (thinking it was deleting ONLY from her terminal) and when she went to
the Host she found she had deleted from the host (she isn't the sharpest
knife in the drawer, when it comes to computers and refuses to read Windows
for DUMMIES) I told her to go to restore, and when she did, it was OFF and
not monitoring.
The recyle bin was EMPTY and she says the files never went there. SHe has
NOT turned off any of the computers yet. ISN'T there a UNDELETE command that
can be used? how I am not the sharpest knife when it comes to Network. THey
have Windows XP on the host and I believe 98 SE on hers.
Thanks.
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No, there is no Undelete command. If, by chance, no new files have been
created on the disk which contains the file, there are tools which may be
able to find it. The chances of this being the case on a server range
between slim and none.

Windows uses the Recyle bin to allow users to recover from such mistakes.
In short, if it isn't in the recycle bin, it is gone.
Jim
 
Maybe the company does nightly backups and can restore the files she
accidentally deleted for her?
 
Thanks for the Info Jim.

I should have put more info in my request. It IS a server but she is the
only one there and one other. It is a PT Office and she is the Office manager
and they have three computers linked to the same host for ease. Not much has
been done on the computers since she did it, (about 4 hours ago) and for
whatever reason, it did not go to her Recycle bin nor the Hosts.
 
My WIFE called me from work and she was on her terminal and deleted some
files, (thinking it was deleting ONLY from her terminal) and when she went to
the Host she found she had deleted from the host (she isn't the sharpest
knife in the drawer, when it comes to computers and refuses to read Windows
for DUMMIES) I told her to go to restore, and when she did, it was OFF and
not monitoring.
The recyle bin was EMPTY and she says the files never went there. SHe has
NOT turned off any of the computers yet. ISN'T there a UNDELETE command that
can be used? how I am not the sharpest knife when it comes to Network. THey
have Windows XP on the host and I believe 98 SE on hers.
Thanks.
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When you use one computer to delete files stored on another computer,
the files don't go into the Recycle Bin on either one. For that
reason, I recommend making shared disks and folders read-only over the
network unless you absolutely must have write access.

Turn System Restore on! If it had been on, running it on the computer
where the files were stored could bring them back. However, System
Restore doesn't monitor files in the My Documents folder.
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Craig,
Ah, you say a computer connected via a network to a server type of
scenario - well by design the files don't go into a "recycle bin" a) because
the files being deleted are not on the local computer, that's why they are
not on her recycle bin, and b) because the action doing the deleting was
initiated by a remote computer, that's why they are not in the server/host
computer recycle bin.
But, if the Server is running Win2k3, and "Shadow Copies" were turned on
for the drive the files were located on, it may be possible for the system
and/or domain administrator to recover them.

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The delivered "system restore" will NOT restore files found randomly in
folders part of network shares - they too are considered to be the same
class as personal documents in My Documents, they are simple data/user
files. Basically system restore monitors files in %WINDIR%, %ProgramFiles%,
and choice files under the user's profile, such as the user hive of the
registry and some other miscellaneous office settings files.

See quotes from MS Knowledge Base on FAQs on System Restore:
See below.

Restored:

. Registry

. Profiles (local only; roaming user profiles are not affected
by restore)

. COM+ DB

. WFP.dll cache

. WMI DB

. IIS Metabase

. File types monitored by System Restore as specified in the SDK
document Monitored File Extensions


Not restored:

. DRM settings

. Passwords in the SAM hive

. WPA settings (Windows authentication information is not
restored)

. Specific directories/files listed in the Monitored File
Extensions list in the System Restore section of the Platform SDK e.g. 'My
Documents' folder

. Any file types not monitored by System Restore (.doc, .jpg,
etc.)

. Items listed in both Filesnottobackup and KeysnottoRestore
(hklm->system->controlset001->control->backuprestore->filesnottobackup and
keysnottorestore) in the registry

. User-created data stored in the user profile

. Contents of redirected folders




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I am new to this. I have deleted a text file from Recylce Bin. Have I any
chance of retrieving it simply.
 
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Joy said:
I am new to this. I have deleted a text file from Recylce Bin. Have
I any chance of retrieving it simply.
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So you deleted a file and then emptied the trash?
Google for 'undelete' - there are many third party apps out there.
Unless you had a backup - but then you wouldn't be writing. (Pssst - you
need to do backups!)

Also - since this is not actually a relevant reply in the original thread,
it should have been posted as a new message.

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