Re: Backup - Deleting Files

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Ian:

There is no quarantee you will be able to recover these files. There are, however, thrid party tools such as Undelete http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp.

These tools are usually a gamble though, and it really depends on how much disk activity there was on the drive after you deleted the files. If you want the best chance of recovering these files, minimize or stop all disk activity to the disk and attempt to use one of the third-party undelete tools.

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Matt Wagner
Enterprise Engineering Center
Microsoft Corporation

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Ian McCulloch wrote:
I know this is a stupid question, but I am pretty down on the dumps

I deleted a whole bunch of Word docs representing 2 weeks work of a file share

Aside from the directory not being selected for the backup, is there any hope this side of heaven to get these files back?


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