How do you retrieve files?

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James H
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Location: In your endo

More specifically, is it possible to retrieve files after they've been emptied from the recycle bin?
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Luke-H
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Joined: Sat 18 Jun, 2005 12.21
Location: Selby - N. Yorks

Yes, as the files are not actually deleted, but marked 'overwrite-able', although I'm not sure how you retrieve them, sorry. I'm sure there'll be someone on here who knows how.
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Chris
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Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 19.03
Location: Surrey

It depends - how much writing/reading have you been doing to the disk, and how old are the files on the disk, and how long ago you emptied the bin?

For the best chance of recovery, you should avoiding writing to the media in question. The "Recycle Bin" is nothing more than a folder on the drive.
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Dr Lobster*
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Joined: Sat 30 Aug, 2003 20.14

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have a look at this tool:

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upl ... onTool.zip

the files there are just a few from a single run on my computer - by just saving this download and browsing the web (ie files changing in your cache) you could be overwriting those files, so try saving the above archive to another partition if possible.

good luck!
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