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mbudde
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 Posted - May 15 2003 : 2:52:43 PM
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Windows users,
If a file is deleted from a mapped drive, is there any chance that it can be retrieved without a lot of trouble? I searched the web for help on this, but it seems like nobody else knows where they go, or if they're gone for good, or what.
If the file is toast, is there a way to prevent this from happening in the future?
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francis.favorini
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Posted - May 16 2003 : 2:29:19 PM
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When a deleted file in Windows goes to the Recycle Bin, it is actually being moved to a special folder under the covers. Each of your local hard disks has its own RECYCLER folder, unless you configure that disk not to have one.
Deleting a file from a network drive (or a floppy) does not work the same way. There are two basic ways this could be handled, and they both have problems, which is why it isn't done. You could copy the deleted network files to the local hard disk's Recycle Bin, but there is no guarantee they would even fit. Plus it might take a very long time, and the files would only be recoverable from that machine. Alternatively, there could be a Recycle Bin on the network drive itself, but this would potentially tie up a large amount of disk space as well as create conflicts between users trying to empty the recycle bin and restore files at the same time from different locations.
There are third party utilities out there that say they do this. I have never tried one, however. You might try a search on "network file undelete" or something simliar.
-Francis
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