HELP! How can I recover deleted file???

[Viken Karaguesian]

I just accidentally deleted all the .htm files from a website that I've been
working on. To make a long story short, I thought it was a different site so
I deleted all the files. I deleted them from within Frontpage (2003). It is
unpublished so I cannot recover them from the server. They are not in my
recycling bin.

PLEASE tell me that I can recover them! How?

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

I just accidentally deleted all the .htm files from a website that I've
been working on. To make a long story short, I thought it was a different
site so I deleted all the files. I deleted them from within Frontpage
(2003). It is unpublished so I cannot recover them from the server. They
are not in my recycling bin.

PLEASE tell me that I can recover them! How?

I am fairly sure that the answer is what you dreaded - you can't. FP deletes
without writing to the Recycle Bin

 

[Viken Karaguesian]

PLEASE tell me that I can recover them! How?

I am fairly sure that the answer is what you dreaded - you can't. FP
deletes without writing to the Recycle Bin

Thanks Trevor. <SIGH...> I kinda knew that already. I was hoping that
someone could pull out a little-known secret and save my day.

I suppose s system restore wouldn't help, right?

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

Thanks Trevor. <SIGH...> I kinda knew that already. I was hoping that
someone could pull out a little-known secret and save my day.

I suppose s system restore wouldn't help, right?

AFAIK, a system restore would not help, because it only restores the system,
not user files.

But I am no expert on this

 

[Brian Mailman]

Thanks Trevor. <SIGH...> I kinda knew that already. I was hoping that
someone could pull out a little-known secret and save my day.

I suppose s system restore wouldn't help, right?

When a file is deleted, it's not trashed, as such. Just that the file
tables pointing to where the segments of the file are stored on the hard
disk is released. The data is still there, until it's overwritten.

You *might* be able to get back some of the files, and parts of some of
the files using a "hex editor." Caution--what you do get back, should
you find one and then use it, is that what you recover will be in plain
text with no formatting. This may not be a problem with .htm files
because the HTML tags *are* ASCII/plain text. What that means is you
can't really save other files because you may overwrite what's there.

It may be more work than it's worth, though to try to recover data.

B/

 

[Steve Easton]

You "might" be able to recover them with the free utility available here:
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html




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