Re: HELP! 16000 files deleted my mistake

Hi

System Restore won't help, as it doesn't monitor data files. Depending on
wether the files have been overwritten you may be able to recover them with
an 'undelete' program:

http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/
http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp

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Will Denny
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"mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I was backing up using second copy and instead of synching to a new folder,
> it simply deleted about 16000 files, after I realised what happened I
> checked in recyccle bin and they were all there, i clicked "restore all"
> but
> it didnt restore them, they just dissapeared.
>
> Please help, how can I get my files back? will system restore help?
>
>


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