I ran out of space on my external HD, so I copied everything over to a larger one, then deleted the first. Studpidly, I did not check to make sure everything copied first, and two of my monthly folders did not. The folders are still there, but empty. Nothing is in the Recycling Bin because I deleted such large folders, I got a message that it can't fit in the Recycling Bin and will just be deleted. I'm not totally panicked yet because as Recuva scanned, it said that it found more than 15,000 items, so I'm sure they're there, but I haven't been able to see them yet.