Re: Lost files from deleting an XP Pro user account

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"Jeremy" <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I deleted a user account, and told it to keep the files associated with the
account.
It put a folder on the desktop named after the deleted user account, but
it
is basically empty. It had one empty sub-folder called Owners Pictures or
something like that, but I lost many hundreds of other files... any idea
where they might be recoverable from, or where else they could have been
put?

When you say "I deleted a user account", how exactly did you do it?
When you look at the folder "c:\Documents and Settings", what subfolders
can you see? Is the deleted account name among them?
If the large number of files you lost are important, can you retrieve
them from your backup?


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