Copied a folder to"Recycled" by mistake.. Now I want it all back!!! Help!!

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Hey guys!!

Iam coming back after a long time... nice to meet you ppl!!

iam facing a problem here.. I copied a folder worth 20 gb of data into the recycled folder ( Dragged it into the recycled folder.... ). The "recycled" folder is actually hidden... but i enabled the option of showing the hidden files.... and copied the whole folder into it....

But iam not able to find the folder inside recycled now.... Its all screwed up!!!

But the drive is still occupied by 20 gb... I mean it is not fully deleted. my d drive has a capacity of 30 gb and it still shows only 5 gb free.... so it means the folder i copied into "recycled" still exists somehwere....

I want it back... badly!!!

Someone help me out here!!!

Thank you!!

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[-AB-]

Just do a System Restore.

 

[Krossat]

Double click ont he recycle bin.
When it opens on the left hand side bar you will see an option which sez "Restore All"
click on that an dsee if it restores your file.
If not restart ur system and then check again.

 

[Daniel]

"Copied a folder to"Recycled" by mistake...."

Well find where you copied it from, and that's where it'll be.

 

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ummm..... first of all iam not able the see the folder inside recycled.....

"recycled" itself is hidden inside the d drive..... (* i mean each drive has its own "recycled" right?? )

i am not able to find the folder inside.... but i know its still somewhere cuz the drive free space hasnt changed...... 20 gb is still occupied in the drive.... and when i right click "recycled" it still says 20 gb....

and i tried restore all items..... doesnt work

thank you....

 

[Krossat]

okay firstly if u havent restarted yet and havent been copying stuff after you deleted that folder, then try this:

Double click on the hidden (but now visible) recycled folder. When it opens, right click there, you will see a popup, which may have the option "undo delete". If it is there and you havent deleted anything after that folder, then it will restore the previous delete.
Try it.

If it dont work, restart ur system and check recycled

Cant imageine what might have made it dissapear. Just trying various (safe) ways which mite work

 

[Daniel]

ummm..... first of all iam not able the see the folder inside recycled.....

"recycled" itself is hidden inside the d drive..... (* i mean each drive has its own "recycled" right?? )

i am not able to find the folder inside.... but i know its still somewhere cuz the drive free space hasnt changed...... 20 gb is still occupied in the drive.... and when i right click "recycled" it still says 20 gb....

and i tried restore all items..... doesnt work

thank you....

Try Drive:\RECYCLER folder, is it in there? Tell me all you can about that folder.

 

[Vlad]

wait. do you have recycle bin on your desktop?

 

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firstly... i already restarted my comp

2nd: the recycled folder doesnt have the folder i copied into it....

3rd: i do have a recycle bin on my desktop!!

please help!

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[Daniel]

How about searching for all files over 100MB? If it's 20GB I'm sure some of it is pretty big.

 

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i tried searching for it.... couldnt find it anywhere.......

I also tried dragging an empty folder into "recycled".... it just disappears guys!!!

 

[Daniel]

Make sure "Show System Files" and "Show Hidden Files" are both on.

In the search options, leave everything blank, but tick all the Hidden Files, System files etc, Make sure your searching in the highest possible places, and hope.

 

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actually what really happened was when i was burning a cd in nero, i was adding files into the cd from the d drive.....

when i did that i dragged the folder into "recycled" throught the nero browser....

So help me here...

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[Daniel]

Tried the Nero recycle bin?

 

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ok ... i was able to access the "recycled" folder through DOS........

Iam now able to see the folder inside "recycled" through DOS...



how am i supposed to recover from here?? its actually hidden inside recycled.....

I used tips from this page BTW:
http://www.chami.com/Tips/windows/012497W.html


Please help!!

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[Daniel]

Have you tried using DOS to copy it out?

copy /?

should help

 

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umm... can u pls tell me how to use it?? iam a newbie with DOS.... sorry!

Thanks anwyays!! and i dont think i have enough space to make a copy of the folder.... the folder is actually 20 gb.... will it copy it out or move it to a diff place??

COOL!! I got it back!! I messed around with DOS!!!

ALL MY 20gb of DATA RESTORED!!!

i used the move command BTw!!

LOVE Name pros!! Thank you,

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