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Lost folder, NOT deleted, on Dell Inspiron desktop
My wife this morning reported that an important folder vanished - it wasn't in Recycle, it wasn't Hidden. She had been using it, and viewing content from a professional CD-Rom which seems innocent enough.
She's no computer expert, but canny enough not to shift-delete something without realising it.
I did searches for the missing folder and some of the files that were in it. None of them showed up even when I searched the whole hard drive!
I ran a free-downloaded program, Recuva, to try to locate the folder, but could not see it. Then realised my mistake - perhaps the new program was written on the missing files - but it's only a 3.4MB program. It couldn't have covered all the files, surely.
Unfortunately the folder is recent and there hasn't been a backup for a while (I know - bad, bad )
ANy clues as to how this folder may have vanished off the face of the desktop?
Any clues on effective recovery tool?
John
Last edited by j0hn; 19 Mar 2013 at 19:43. Reason: add info