What to do when file deletion safeguards get bypassed
I have on my desktop a folder named letters. In it there are no letters. What I have filled it with are all the hundreds of notes and drafts I write everyday for my work. This folder exists because I am always afraid I will delete a file I need and have no way to replace. Every so often I go through this folder, remove the files I want and send the rest to the good old Windows recycle bin. From there the files are permanently deleted when I empty the bin.
One would think that using such a double failsafe system nothing could go wrong? Yet somehow I manage to regularly find a file I needed went all the way through the several steps I have created and wind up permanently deleted. When this happens I still have one last chance to recover deleted files. I use a third party file recovery program that scans my hard drive for any extension file type I need and restores them for me to resave. This program is so powerful it will actually restore corrupted hard drive partitions as well. If your PC drive is partitioned off so as to allow multiple applications to run at once it is easy to have partition data come up damaged. A quality data recovery program will restore files from any part of your OS or file storage system.
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