where does Recuva place Orphaned files?

Recuva
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Hi,

I have some really important files and folders that were accidentally deleted that is why i am asking this question first before i do anything else.

On my Sandisk USB Stick : I accidentally deleted a folder with folders and files in it.

And i thought i found the deleted folder and its contents in the recycling bin in my laptop's recycling bin,so i dragged it to the USB Stick and found that half the contents were not there.It was possibly an older version of that folder so it would have only some of the files.Were some of the contents of the folder that i dragged back to the USB Stick not copied back to the USB Stick ??So it might still be in the recycling bin but not visible??

Is there a windows temporary file that i can access to find the contents that i deleted on the USB Stick?

Recuva : has found many of the files but BUT because i copied some folders and files from the Recycling as mentioned above,it would have overwritten some deleted files(The Folder that i dragged back has the same name as the main folder that i deleted,with the contents in it.) and there are folders and contents that i can recover,but recuva does not know what folder those folders were in,so WHERE does recuva place recovered folders and contents ?? It says most of those are "excellent" for recovery.

thanks

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As far as I know there's nothing in the recycler that is hidden. If you can't see it it isn't there. There's no magic temporary file that holds what you want.

Recuva will copy recovered files to wherever you tell it to. Recovery opens a dialogue box where you specify the receiving folder, which can be anywhere except the device you are recovering from, and any name you wish to conjure up. If you check the option to restore the folder structure then Recuva will do its best to build the directories within the folder you are recovering to. Orphaned files are placed at root level in the recovery folder.