Folder with important documents missing

[Monster_King]

I had a folder with 2 very important documents, and after I wrote them and saved and everything, I wanted to check something before I send them and the folder is missing. And to make matters worse, it was in the documents folder, and now every document I had in there is gone. Please, somebody help me, I have to send them tomorrow. I don’t know if this helps, but when I search for it, the only things that show up are shortcuts to those files and when I click any of them, it prompts me that the file is not there.

[eeeee1]

look in the recycling bin.

maybe run one of those programs that can recover deleted files

[Monster_King]

Just now, eeeee1 said:

look in the recycling bin.

maybe run one of those programs that can recover deleted files

Already looked in the recycling bin and nothing is in there, this is a 2 week old install of windows with nothing in the bin except old shortcuts to apps that I haven’t installed.

[eeeee1]

then run one of those data recovery apps that recover deleted data. If it was accidentally deleted then you could recover it as long as it wasn't overwritten

[Drama Lama]

Use a data recovery program 

[Monster_King]

1 minute ago, eeeee1 said:

then run one of those data recovery apps that recover deleted data. If it was accidentally deleted then you could recover it as long as it wasn't overwritten

 

Just now, Drama Lama said:

Use a data recovery program 

Can you recommend any? I have never tried one of these before.

[eeeee1]

2 minutes ago, Monster_King said:

 

Can you recommend any? I have never tried one of these before.

i have never really used any but here is what I have seen that look promising

Recuva

Stellar Recovery

Stellar Recovery isnt free though and I think that recuva is free

[Monster_King]

3 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

i have never really used any but here is what I have seen that look promising

Recuva

Stellar Recovery

Stellar Recovery isnt free though and I think that recuva is free

Okay, recuva already found 282k files so I hope that the documents are one of them after it finishes.

[eeeee1]

1 minute ago, Monster_King said:

Okay, recuva already found 282k files so I hope that the documents are one of them after it finishes.

godspeed my friend

[Monster_King]

27 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

godspeed my friend

Welp... it’s done scanning (it’s only a 128 M.2 SSD so it was quick) and it didn’t find anything. But I found out that in word I can see the file, but when I click it, it says that the file is missing.

[eeeee1]

Just now, Monster_King said:

Welp... it’s done scanning (it’s only a 128 M.2 SSD so it was quick) and it didn’t find anything. But I found out that in word I can see the file, but when I click it, it says that the file is missing.

screenshot?

[Monster_King]

3 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

screenshot?

[Monster_King]

Just now, Monster_King said:

It’s just like it was never there

[Monster_King]

This is all that it found, all are just shortcuts, and when I click on them it prompts me to delete it.

[eeeee1]

sorry then i really dont know what happened to them. double check that you saved the stuff on that drive and not on a different drive, computer or on a usb stick. godspeed