AhabtheWhale

I haven't been able to recover anything non-corrupted. Nothing is readable anymore, of the files that were deleted by iCloud Drive. Is this just what it is or can I still do something about this? I'm in dire straits. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Alright, I've found the button for scanning just documents in the wizard (-_-), and I'm now doing a more targeted search. The fact that I couldn't find the right files before also may have something to do with that I was only scanning in my documents, which isn't necessarily where the files were located. However, now I'm scanning in the entire pc, and I'm going to have to wait 6 hours before the scan is done. My question is the following: would I be able to significantly reduce the time this search would take place if I specified in advance the paths in which the deleted files were located? Since I know where they used to reside, I should be able to do this, I'm just wondering whether this would speed up the process considerably. Moreover, does anyone know whether there is a risk of aborting the scan when having started? I'm a little worried that the program might end up corrupting files I have on my PC. Does anyone have any experience or advice in this regards, and can tell me my fears are unfounded? Thanks in advance!

Dear everyone, I've just had iCloud delete 17 GB of data when synchronizing my local files and my online cloud. I'm wondering how to use Recuva to get them back. I just recently deleted the files, didn't do anything else in terms of installations but install Recuva. Now, I've made a scan, and I'm finding a lot of documents and different files, but I'm looking primarily for pdf's, excel files and word files, which I can't seem to be able to locate in between all of the different files that the recovery program has found. Is there a way for me to just focus on finding these types of files? I'm finding lots of hpp files etc., but nothing in terms of the papers, and texts that I'm looking for. It's mostly scientific articles and papers I've been writing, but I am as of yet unable to find them back in the Recuva list. All the files were located in two folders; is this helpful in narrowing down where I'm supposed to be looking to find these files? If anyone can help me out, that would be greatly appreciated. I'm drawing a blank here and I'm really hoping to find these files back, since it deals with about 3 years of study and work related articles that I really need to get back. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.