Please bear with me as I am a somewhat frazzled after accidentally deleting some pictures.
Basically, I was burning pictures from my computer onto disc. The task became monotonous, and I accidentally deleted things before they were burned. As soon as I realized (which was pretty soon after - the only things I had done were moved other pictures around in files and possibly deleted a few) I did a system restore to several hours before deletion, hoping that would bring the files back (which was a stupid assumption, I know). The system restore did end up bringing back a computer game I deleted. I went online and eventually found Recuva...downloaded and installed it, and recovered thousands of files of various types, with only a basic scan. Some don't seem to work, but many do. Of course, because I stupidly recovered so many files, it is hard to know if the ones I wanted are there. I'm sorting through them now, after removing all but the jpeg, gifs, and png file types.
My questions (and I have searched and looked at the help section):
1) Would the system restore have affected the ability of Recuva to find the files I had deleted, especially because of the game was brought back?
2) Because I did very little after deleting the photos, chances are most were recovered because of less time to overwrite, am I correct?
I plan to do a deep scan later, but before I continue with that I want to make sure it's worth it.
Again, I'm sorry for the stupid questions, but I'm a bit on edge right now. I'm also not particularly computer literate, as you can probably tell.