sooner_luvr Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Hi all. I accidently shift-deleted (yes, shift-delete) my "Documents" folder in Vista. I have searched the entire drive with Enable Deep Scan checked, but it will not find the files. It does find many previously deleted files - Like it finds MANY from c:\users\MyName\AppData...but NOT ANY from c:\users\MyName\Documents Can anyone help me with why Recuva cannot fild the files I deleted? Any other ideas? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted May 18, 2009 Moderators Share Posted May 18, 2009 I guess that you're saying that you can't see any entry in the path column for c:\users\MyName\Documents? If so, I don't know why the folder name isn't showing. Recuva does show a lot of file names with c:\?\ as the folder name, so it seems that it sometimes can't interpret the path correctly. It may well be that the majority of the files are found by Recuva, but without a folder name it will be difficult to find them to get them all back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooner_luvr Posted May 18, 2009 Author Share Posted May 18, 2009 I guess that you're saying that you can't see any entry in the path column for c:\users\MyName\Documents? If so, I don't know why the folder name isn't showing. Recuva does show a lot of file names with c:\?\ as the folder name, so it seems that it sometimes can't interpret the path correctly. It may well be that the majority of the files are found by Recuva, but without a folder name it will be difficult to find them to get them all back. I did find a lot of files with the path c:\?\ . Then I searched within the results in Recuva for a specific file name that was in the Documents folder, and the file was not there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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