Re: Deleted Files

Caroline wrote:

I was putting the music files on a USB drive, and then deleting the files
on the USB after I had put them on my new computer. It was when I was
deleting the files on the USB to make more room, when somehow the "iTunes
Music" was deleted. I looked in the recycle bin, and there was nothing.
Why won't restoring my computer work?

Because System Restore doesn't monitor those files.

MVP Bert Kinney's canonical site about System Restore:

http://bertk.mvps.org

Here is a list of files and folders System Restore monitors -
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/filesfolders.html

Malke
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