Where did my filees go?

[lhsetzer]

The first time I ran CCleaner it did a great job of cleaning out unneeded files. However, it also cleaned out an email folder in which I had stored letters that I wanted to keep for later use. Those letteres are gone. Where did CCleaner put them? Are they recoverable?

[kroozer]

Install and run Recuva to retrieve those files.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/

[Augeas]

CC doesn't delete emails of any sort, either singly or the entire email folder - unless you've put the email folder in a temp directory, which you could say is pushing your luck a little.

 

Do as little on your pc as possible, download Recuva onto a flash or different partition, and run from there. I can't remember all the email folder extensions, I think OE is .dbx, so that's what you'll be looking for in OE, others will use different extensions.