Family Historian User Group

I spent the weekend up in Surrey seeing my youngest Grandson who is over briefly with his parents from Gran Canaria. Also got some great photos with them alongside Great Nan. Many other irreplaceable pics were downloaded to PC on our return to Cornwall when I realised that the empty folder I had just Shift Deleted wasn't empty! Everything I took over the weekend had been permanently deleted, or so I thought.
I stopped using the PC , switched on my Netbook went online to the WebUser forum and asked if they were irretrievable. Five minutes later I was told to download RECUVA to a USB stick. The download had 32bit and 64bit versions. Having plugged in the USB stick to my PC and run the application I found everything I had deleted and another 497 files deleted earlier. Ticking the files I wanted I hit the Recover button and retrieved them to a folder I created on another drive as they recommended.
Everything is now back where I want them and backed up!
RECUVA couldn't have been easier to use and it's free!
Dagwood [smile]

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Glad to hear you got them back, I have used that application before and it normally works well if you use it straight away.

Another useful tool is the Unstoppable copier which has recovered files from damaged and flaky hard drives and USB keys several times in the past for me in the past.

Useful to know Jane, thanks for that....I hope I never have to use it though! I wonder if that would be worth downloading now onto the same USB stick rather than worry about it when there is a disc problem?
Dagwood

Also remember that if you have windows 7 (& possibly with 8) you can right click on a folder and choose 'restore previous version'

That is a great feature of Windows 7 & 8, but only works if there has been a System Backup or System Restore Point created between loading and deleting the photos.

tatewise said:
That is a great feature of Windows 7 & 8, but only works if there has been a System Backup or System Restore Point created between loading and deleting the photos.

And that of course is something I hadn't even started to do!

FYI: Automatic System Restore Points are created automatically by Windows every few days - you don't have to do anything - the last one on my PC was Tues 19 Feb.

Sorry to correct you , Mike, but in Windows 8, the 'File History' facility is distinct from System Backup and needs to be turned on explicitly. Once it is, it works in the background.

tatewise said:
FYI: Automatic System Restore Points are created automatically by Windows every few days - you don't have to do anything - the last one on my PC was Tues 19 Feb.

System Restore Points are designed to back up important system files to get the computer back up and running if it fails to boot or has other serious issues. In Windows 7 it doesn't by default back up data such as photos so wouldn't help in this particular case unless System Protection is turned on for the drive in question. If your data is on a different drive to the Windows system then it needs to be manually switched on. More here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/wind ... -questions