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Somehow i have managed to delete a important buisness file through the
recycle bin, the file uses MYIB a buisness software, i am desperate as i have
3 months worth of entries in this file before financial year starts, PLEASE
HELP???
 
Hi Katie,

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://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
|>Somehow i have managed to delete a important buisness file through the
|>recycle bin, the file uses MYIB a buisness software, i am desperate as i have
|>3 months worth of entries in this file before financial year starts, PLEASE
|>HELP???

You do know you need to stop using the computer the file is on; until
you get a plan of recovery.
 
katie said:
Somehow i have managed to delete a important buisness file through the
recycle bin, the file uses MYIB a buisness software, i am desperate
as i have 3 months worth of entries in this file before financial
year starts, PLEASE HELP???
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"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.
 
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