Lost files

[EPPHO]

Yesterday I was moving some files, organizing and stuff. I cut and pasted some .txt files, which are kinda important to me, and they disappeared! Have you ever experienced this and were you able to recover your files, and how?

[Origami Cactus]

Maybe look into the reycle bin,

or use the windows explorer search to search the whole computer for these file names.

[EPPHO]

Just now, Origami Cactus said:

Maybe look into the reycle bin,

or use the windows explorer search to search the whole computer for these file names.

Tried it and did not find any.

[KingBlue72]

12 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

Tried it and did not find any.

Where did you move them?

[EPPHO]

14 minutes ago, KingBlue72 said:

Where did you move them?

Same drive, different folder.

[KingBlue72]

3 hours ago, frozeNNN said:

Same drive, different folder.

Are you sure that it actually got moved to the new folder? My girlfriend had a similar problem some time ago whre half the pictures she was moving went to the desktop and half of them stayed in the folder. I'd say try and search the file name in your library.

[PowerChaos]

use a program called Everything

its  a search program that works fast , and if it still exist then it will find that file back for you

 

else use a undelete program , to restore the sector that contains the file ( if it isnt overwritten)

 

it is strange that a txt file suddenly dissapear , i only got that once , and it was moved to my desktop under other icons ... i love windows that way  

 

Greets From PowerChaos

[EPPHO]

9 minutes ago, PowerChaos said:

use a program called Everything

its  a search program that works fast , and if it still exist then it will find that file back for you

 

else use a undelete program , to restore the sector that contains the file ( if it isnt overwritten)

 

it is strange that a txt file suddenly dissapear , i only got that once , and it was moved to my desktop under other icons ... i love windows that way  

 

Greets From PowerChaos

That app found the file under the folder I moved it to but that folder is not visible to me in file explorer... WTF?

Also I have enabled the option for showing hidden files.

[EPPHO]

@PowerChaos

 

This is what I get when I go right click the file and open file directory within the Everything app

[PowerChaos]

you need to love windows for that

 

use that program to move it to a other location so you can get back acces to it

 

probaly a hidden atribute flag is set by windows someway

i know i could hide it with MSdos ( by using ~ before the name ) 

 

you could  try the following to override the error you get now

 

open CMD as admin

type the following

cd d:/recovery

dir

( it should show your files )

then use the copy command ( dont know it out of my head )

 

other solution , if the program found the file then it exist

so you could try to boot from a linux live ... and copy the folder to a other location and remove that folder 

 

Also this methode can be used

https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-take-ownership-and-get-full-access-to-files-and-folders-in-windows-10/

please ignore all links in there  its just for the turorial and screenshots of how to claim rights back

 

do this on the D:/ drive , and check to apply also for sub folders ( do not mess the rights up .. else you can not even acces it anymore )

 

Greeets From PowerChaos

[EPPHO]

29 minutes ago, PowerChaos said:

you need to love windows for that

 

use that program to move it to a other location so you can get back acces to it

 

probaly a hidden atribute flag is set by windows someway

i know i could hide it with MSdos ( by using ~ before the name ) 

 

you could  try the following to override the error you get now

 

open CMD as admin

type the following

cd d:/recovery

dir

( it should show your files )

then use the copy command ( dont know it out of my head )

 

other solution , if the program found the file then it exist

so you could try to boot from a linux live ... and copy the folder to a other location and remove that folder 

 

Also this methode can be used

https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-take-ownership-and-get-full-access-to-files-and-folders-in-windows-10/

please ignore all links in there  its just for the turorial and screenshots of how to claim rights back

 

do this on the D:/ drive , and check to apply also for sub folders ( do not mess the rights up .. else you can not even acces it anymore )

 

Greeets From PowerChaos

Tried the method described on that link, got to the point where my file explorer crashes on a right click. Gotta love it  

I'll try it agian later.

[EPPHO]

@PowerChaos Actually after doing everything kinda halfway I managed to open the file directory through the Everything app and I copied my lost files to desktop. 

 

You saved my files and thank you for that <3 

[PowerChaos]

@frozeNNN Your welcome

Glad i could help

 

Greets From PowerChaos