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Patient Guy
I need urgent help.
1. I had cut and pasted some music files to a CD-R and then told the
system to write the files to the CD. I believe a wizard opened and I told
it to do the writing.
2. After it finished writing, the CD door opened and I removed the CD. I
put in an empty CD. I then started copying several other files (photos)
to the blank CD.
3. I noticed that the CD writing wizard window still appeared, and it
asked me to click Finish. I did.
4. Then when I went to see the photo files I had put on the CD drive and
to instruct the system to write to them, there were no files in the
"Waiting to be written to CD" category.
5. Frantic, I then tried to go to the Recycle Bin to recover the photo
files that I had cut and pasted to the CD drive. Note that I cut and
pasted, not copy and pasted. I cannot find them in the Recycle Bin.
6. I then learned that files might possibly be in the path "C:\Documents
and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD
Burning". But that directory was completely empty.
I have tried do several searches, including from the C:\ root for the
files, and cannot find them.
I think that click the Finish button from the wizard of the previous
copying has somehow zapped the copying outside of the wizard.
What do I do to recover these files? These are the ONLY copy there was.
In the future, I will OBVIOUSLY have to do a COPY-and-paste and NOT a CUT-
and-paste of images and verify they are burned before I remove them from
the hard disk. I had done cut-and-paste operations on the file system
without this problem before.
1. I had cut and pasted some music files to a CD-R and then told the
system to write the files to the CD. I believe a wizard opened and I told
it to do the writing.
2. After it finished writing, the CD door opened and I removed the CD. I
put in an empty CD. I then started copying several other files (photos)
to the blank CD.
3. I noticed that the CD writing wizard window still appeared, and it
asked me to click Finish. I did.
4. Then when I went to see the photo files I had put on the CD drive and
to instruct the system to write to them, there were no files in the
"Waiting to be written to CD" category.
5. Frantic, I then tried to go to the Recycle Bin to recover the photo
files that I had cut and pasted to the CD drive. Note that I cut and
pasted, not copy and pasted. I cannot find them in the Recycle Bin.
6. I then learned that files might possibly be in the path "C:\Documents
and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD
Burning". But that directory was completely empty.
I have tried do several searches, including from the C:\ root for the
files, and cannot find them.
I think that click the Finish button from the wizard of the previous
copying has somehow zapped the copying outside of the wizard.
What do I do to recover these files? These are the ONLY copy there was.
In the future, I will OBVIOUSLY have to do a COPY-and-paste and NOT a CUT-
and-paste of images and verify they are burned before I remove them from
the hard disk. I had done cut-and-paste operations on the file system
without this problem before.