Restore deleted photos?

[Paul Arey]

Does anyone know how I might be able to restore some
pictures I deleted by mistake? This is what happeened: I
got a pop-up baloon saying I was running out of disc space
so I clicked on it and to free up some space on my hard
drive I deleted some junk I thought I didn't need But I
forgot I had stashed some photo files in a subfolder in
the WUtemp folder!(what is this by the way?)I relized soon
after when I went and put a few photos in the folder and I
had to remake the folder with the same name! Anyway I ran
system restore and got back the folder of the same name
but it was empty!!! Is there a way to retreave those lost
photos if they have not all been overwritten???? Anyones
help is really appreciated. Much thanks Paul

 

[Ken Blake]

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Does anyone know how I might be able to restore some
pictures I deleted by mistake? This is what happeened: I
got a pop-up baloon saying I was running out of disc space
so I clicked on it and to free up some space on my hard
drive I deleted some junk I thought I didn't need But I
forgot I had stashed some photo files in a subfolder in
the WUtemp folder!(what is this by the way?)I relized soon
after when I went and put a few photos in the folder and I
had to remake the folder with the same name! Anyway I ran
system restore and got back the folder of the same name
but it was empty!!! Is there a way to retreave those lost
photos if they have not all been overwritten???? Anyones
help is really appreciated. Much thanks Paul

System Restore restores the system, not user files. Did you try
the Recycle Bin? If you've emptied the Recycle Bin, 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 is 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 on a friend's
computer and bring it 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.