Drag and drop = loss of 3 days work

Any suggestions for finding 3 days worth of audacity editing that just apparently disappeared when I was dragging and dropping the folder they were stored in from one part of our network drive to another? I am not certain what happened, but only 18 of 32 files made it. I usually cut and paste to avoid this embarrasing predicament, but have been distracted by making arrangements for my father's funeral this weekend. Our office uses windows 2000. A Windows search using wildcards and part of the files names of the work station and the network drives don't seem to turn anything up. Nothing appears in the recycle bin. I am still hopeful that they might be recoverable. Any help will be appreciated, though I won't be able to respond until Tuesday since I am out of the office to go to the funeral.

Thanks

Monroe

 

If it's on a computer Everything will find it - instantaneously. You'll never use Windows' search facility again.

http://www.voidtools.com/

 

If you are on the computer the data has been lost from, you should switch it off immediately and use another pc for this, if at all possible as you run the risk of overwriting the data you wish to retrieve!.


Incase you have no luck with earthlings suggestion, download this .... http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTAB...cations-Portable-Avira-UnErase-Personal.shtml

It is a portable version of Avira uneraser you should be able to make it search for the file extensions/types you require.

Q

 

Hey there,

Sorry dont have a solution, and I also learned the hard way from a similar large file transfer:cry.

I now use copy and paste, once I have verified the files are the same size and can be accessed from the destination file, I then shift+delete the original as it bypass's the recycle bin.:cool

There maybe retrievable data from a temp or tmp folder...? Try using the search app.

Unsure if your version of windows creates a restore point or equivalent, Windows 98 did, at startup. You maybe able to use this if the facility exists in 2000. The files maybe there but the registry may have an issue in locating the path if there was an issue while the file was in transit - being pasted..

G.luck:wave

 

Thanks for the advice Earthling. When I go to the everything site I find the following in the faq:

1.10 Can "Everything" index a mapped network drive?

No, "Everything" only indexes local or removable NTFS volumes.

To search a networked computer you will need to run Everything on both computers.
One computer will need to Start an ETP server.
The other computer will need to connect to that ETP server.

To start an ETP server:
1. In Everything, On the Tools menu, click Start ETP server.

To connect to an ETP server:
1. In Everything, On the Tools menu, click Connect to ETP Server....
2. Type in the ETP server name.
3. Type in the ETP server port.
4. Type in the ETP server user.
5. Type in the ETP server password.
6. Click OK.


I wonder if our server is an ETP server? I have not encountered this term before. Do you have suggestions for ascertaining the server name, port user, and password? The tech that set up our system is unavailible to consult with on these issues.

Monroe

 

Unless it's a very large network then my advice would be to install and run it on each machine. It only takes a minute or two, and the database creation is very fast too, but almost certainly would not be over a network.

I've just recovered some stuff with Everything that we believed was gone, gone, gone ...

 

Thanks for the quick response,

We only have eight workstations, so I could probably implement your suggestion, but we store a lot of information on our F (networkdrive), in fact that was where I was working when I lost the files, so I wonder if checking each of the workstations solves my problem.

 

I cannot search my own network drive with Everything, even when mapped to a drive letter, so it may not be the answer in your situation.