thanatoid said:
Aren't you contradicting yourself in your two posts?
No.
First you
say "delete" doesn't really delete, which most people should
know by now, anyway.
"Should know" doesn't mean "does know." Many people don't know. If the OP
knew it, he probably wouldn't have asked the question.
In the next post, you say "moved = copy/delete". You JUST SAID
delete doesn't REALLY delete? Didn't you?
Yes, I did. Nevertheless "move" does equal copy plus delete. The problem is
that the word "delete: is used in two different ways and you're mixing them
up. When I say "move equals copy plus delete," I mean "delete "in the normal
sense of what people mean when say they delete a file: they press
shift-delete, or delete and then clear out the recycle bin. That makes the
file invisible and unaccessable, but doesn't actually remove it.
When I say "delete doesn't really delete," the first "delete" in that
sentence is the use above; the second delete is used to mean that the file
has not actually been .removed from the drive.
Is this part of MVP training? M$ staff are pretty good at this
kind of thing.
Lest you be confused, neither I nor any other MVP is a Microsoft employees.
MVPs are volunteers. The title "MVP" is honorary, and MVPs get awarded the
title by providing regular helpful advice, here in the newsgroups and
elsewhere.
Rerad about the MVP program here:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpexecsum
(Just a little humor, don't get personally offended please.)
I'm not offended at all. If you meant this as humor, what I wrote above may
be something you already know, but I wrote it anyway to clarify the
situation for others who may not understand.
Not to mention the fact that since the OP does not appear to be
an expert - and even an expert could have accidentally misused
the words - he may well have actually *copied* but used the term
*moved*.
That actually occurred to me, whicdh is why, in my second message in this
thread, I said " If he truly
moved them, they are gone from computer A" I originally wrote the sentence
without the words " If he truly
moved them," then added them for just that reason. But also note the subject
line if the thread: he uses the phrase "after it's deleted," which certainly
implies that he actually did move it, not do a copy.
OP:
Check the "first" drive with one of the restoration utilities
Ken mentioned. It's probably all there. (Just for the hell of
it, check the recycle bin first.)
It certainly doesn't hurt to do as you suggest and check the recycle bin
first. But my guess is that it's not there and that an undelete utility
won't find it either. I hope I'm wrong, but the problem is that by the time
most people get around to asking the question here, the computer has been
used for a while and the space has been reused.
