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I was trying to download the beginners guide. But when I tried to open it, I received the message "Navigation page has been deleted" - or something like that. Then I was playing around with Recuva just to see what it might be able to do for me in case of an emergency. Well, I picked some recently deleted files (.pdf and .jpeg) that were marked as "Excellent". Could recover them alright - the .pdf looked like a normal Adobe file and the .jpeg looked like a generic picture. But when I was trying to open them with the respective programs, those programs could not deal with the filetype (supposedly corrupted). Is there some pre- or post-processing I have to do or am I missing something?

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Hi whs,

Looks like you have done everything correctly.

Even down to testing the recovered files.

You may already be using this link but just in case here's a good explanation about Recuva by one of the development team.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...ost&p=95389

Welcome to the forum.

:) davey

 

P.S. There are very experienced Recuva uses and testers that may be able to tell you how to make those recovered files usable.Many things can happen to a file after it is deleted.

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I was trying to download the beginners guide. But when I tried to open it, I received the message "Navigation page has been deleted" - or something like that.

Well you can download the BeginnersGuide.zip here, it works for me. ;)

Keith

 

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Well you can download the BeginnersGuide.zip here, it works for me. ;)

 

 

Thanks for the link. It was actually the same that I was using but at the time I was not logged in. That's why it was refusing my request. You live and learn.

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Hi whs,

Looks like you have done everything correctly.

Even down to testing the recovered files.

You may already be using this link but just in case here's a good explanation about Recuva by one of the development team.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...ost&p=95389

Welcome to the forum.

:) davey

 

P.S. There are very experienced Recuva uses and testers that may be able to tell you how to make those recovered files usable.Many things can happen to a file after it is deleted.

 

 

Thanks for the answer. Is there a rule of thumb for how many "exellent" files will actually recover to a working state?

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