Adam_B

Augeus & Willy, thanks for replying. Augeus, can you point me in the direction of more information or share more on why "anything that has been shift/deleted from an SSD has a next to zero chance of being recovered by any recovery software?" I like to know how things work. I thought that the files would still be marked as deleted somewhere on the drive similar to a traditional mag disk. Willy, there is about 80GB/240GB available. I realized what I had done immediately. There were hundreds of megs of data lost, much of it music files. I did not see any of these even as partial corrupted files. The recovery apps I downloaded were not big enough to have overwritten everything that was lost. The Downloads folder is still there. I was sorting things in Downloads\Sort. I went to confirm that I already had copies of files in Downloads\Sort\Work, which just had four PDF's in it. When I returned to the window to the delete the Work folder, focus has changed to Sort. I didn't notice, and it was gone in a blink. I only kept one song b/c it was being played at the time, so was locked. Scratching my head. I keep wondering if there's something simple I'm missing.

I'm looking for some guidance if possible. I bought Recuva something like eight years ago to recover files from a corrupted flash drive. It was very straight forward. Today, I mistakenly shift-deleted many files from my Windows Downloads folder. I tried the old version of Recuva and then downloaded the latest version and nothing. None of the files appear in Recuva or Windows File Recovery. Mainly, I see lots of Firefox temporary files. There are also some deleted files from years ago that are identified as in Excellent condition. Yet, none of the files I deleted a few hours ago appear. Many of the deleted files had been in the Downloads folder for years. There were maybe thirty music files among many other files. I don't see any of them. It is making me think that I'm missing something fundamental. My drive is an M.2 NVMe SSD with GUID partitioning.