Anybody know how to recover a deleted file/folder? by RahlMaclaren

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Anybody know how to recover a deleted file/folder?

POSTED BY: RAHLMACLAREN
UPDATED: Sunday, January 6, 2008 06:14
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Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:00 PM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb

I'm about to enter a really big depression, again.

I copied and pasted my Need for Speed: High Stakes save game folder to my desktop before I re-installed the game. Afterwards, I checked the folder I made, and it was EMPTY.
WHAT. THE. F***!!??

All my cars won, my funds, my unlocked tracks, my replay videos... *sniff sniffle*

This the second time I've had this waking nightmare, last one was back in 2003 or '04.

First time hurt mostly because of several impossible-to-replicate replays such as: "The Road Block Pile-Up", "The Orbit Launch"(think half the height of the St. Louis Arch arc and LANDING IT), and the world famous "Bus Crash"(hilltopping a stone bridge, nose of the McLaren hitting the top back edge of a stopped bus on the other side, car does like a pole vault with the back end of the car pointing toward the sky, holds for a few seconds before it falls and twists to the side LANDING and now facing the way it came

This time, it hurts cause I was so close to beating the game (and more cars than I could count).

Please send help!

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Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:19 PM

RIVERFLAN

If you have a Windows machine, check the Recycle Bin- odds are if your folder got deleted, it's in there. And then you click on it and click Restore, which should be on the toolbar somewhere. If you have a Mac, or something sles different, I can't help you.

Hope that helps you.

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Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:27 PM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb

I didn't use the Recycle Bin. The game magically sought out the folder and kaputted it.

Or it's Toth. (maybe Maloch would be more fitting)

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Saturday, January 5, 2008 4:24 PM

JOSSISAGOD

The file(s) in question may still be in the recycle bin, unless you've already checked there. If you're using a PC, try the "search" option in the start menu. Just type in the name of the file/folder, and if it can be found "search" will find it. If you're using a Mac, I think the option is called "Find."

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Sunday, January 6, 2008 5:40 AM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb

Tried a few searches. Didn't find it.

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Sunday, January 6, 2008 6:14 AM

CITIZEN

You might be lucky. When a file is deleted it's reference is removed from the File Allocation Table (it has various names depending on the file system), which means the data is still on the Hard Drive, but the OS doesn't know where it is. This means the data space used by the file still has the file stored there, but the OS can overwrite it at any time because it thinks it's empty. So, if nothing has over-written that HDD location(s), the file is still on your computer, you just can't get at it.

There are utilities that allow you to recover deleted files, but they aren't free (at least I know of no open source apps). Try a google search for "file recovery" and look at what comes up. If you have to buy, I'd download a free sample first, since you don't want to fork out only to find the data has been over ridden and you can't recover it

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I'd be surprised if the installation deleted your files though. Are you sure you copied the folder, and didn't create a short cut by accident? Either way I'd be surprised if you can get the files back, since they were probably over written by the instillation, but you might be lucky.

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