Re: Lost Files in XP Home
From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 03/17/04
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:40:59 -0800
You're not beyond help but you are moving beyond our ability to help. You
can try running a search on www.google.com for utilities that can retrieve
deleted or lost files. If that fails, depending upon how important these
files are to you, you might consider a service that handles this sort of
thing. There are usually ads in the back pages of most computer magazines
for such file retrieval services. Since they retrieve files from hard
drives that have been virtually destroyed by fire and flood, they probably
can help you as well but the services are expensive.
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "John L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:f0cc01c40c61$4ebfcc10$a501280a@phx.gbl... > Still trying to recover "My Documents". Have tried > suggestions provided in response to earlier post, all > without success. Found article in Knowledge Base that > suggests that I may have lost them when I tried to > get "File & Printer Sharing" & "Client for Microsoft > Windows" off the installation disc. Article suggests that > if you install XP to same folder as original install, "My > Documents" (and other things)may be deleted. I'm > beginning to think that's what happened. All of the files > are gone, but the "Recent Files" folder shows shotcuts to > all the files and folders that were in My Documents. Of > course, when I click on the shortcuts, the items can't be > found. I've done a search including hidden files & > folder, etc., and they don't show up. > > I tried to do the suggestion made by Michael Solomon to > my earlier post. He said: <<Navigate to the files, right > click, select properties, go to the Security tab, click > advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that > was logged on when you were refused permission to access > the files. Click apply and ok. Close the properties > box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of the > user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for > everything in the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab > is the following selection: "Replace owner on > subcontainers and objects," select it > as well.>> But, I don't find any Security Tab. (Maybe I'm > just being obtuse, but when you say "Navigate to the > files" I presume you mean any files I find in "My > Documents"? Only file I find there doesn't have > securities tab in properties. It is labled "Desktop > COnfiguratin Settings" and when I open it, its a Notepad > doc and the first line is "[DeleteOnCopy]". > > Am I beyond help in retreiving my lost files? >
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