Shadow Copy did not find a deleted file???!!!! HELP!!!

[Jaxim]

Somehow a movie file (dvr-ms) got deleted on a public folder.
I figured, "Oh no problem, I can get Vista's handy dandy Shadow Copy
to get the backup." WRONG!

I looked for the previous version of my "Recorded TV" folder. There
seems to be many versions of the Recorded TV folder. But when I double
click on each of the "previous version" folders, there are no files to
be found. Just empty folders and subfolders. What the heck?!

I thought that you could find previous versions this way. I thought
you could find a recently deleted file this way.

Does anyone know what may be wrong? Is there a setting I need to set
in order to make Shadow Copy to perform as expected - because it's not
very intuitive or else I would figure it out myself.

Thanks in advance!
Jack

 

[Jaxim]

p.s. This seems to be just an issue with my "Recorded TV" folder and
its subfolders. The "previous version" folders of other folders seem
not to be empty.

Again, thanks for helping me understand how Vista actually works
compared to how I thought it worked.

 

[Tiberius]

these files are very big and imagine that shadow copies have copies of the
deleted ones! lol

 

[Jaxim]

Are you saying Shadow Copies do not make copies of files over a
certain size? Is there any documentation relating to this affect.

 

[Tiberius]

Well there is a limit to the size of the shadow copy size itself, or in
othewords the percentage of disk it will use..
see here

http://www.petri.co.il/change_amount_of_disk_space_used_by_system_restore_in_vista.htm

 

[Bill Daggett]

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